Posts Tagged ‘Art Basel’

The Buzz in Basel:  Art, Alive and Well and Selling Briskly (NY Times) Bettina Korek’s Art Basel Exclusive (Huffington Post) Art Review:  ‘Andy Warhol, The Last Decade’ at Brooklyn Museum (NY Times) A Late-Period Windfall for French Art Duo:  Selling the Lalannes (WSJ) Portrait of the Young Artist as Movie Star:  James Franco (WSJ) MOCA […]


The Los Angeles Times‘ Jori Finkel reported that Jeffrey Deitch’s first show at MOCA will be, “Dennis Hopper Double Standard,” curated by Julian Schnabel, opening on July 11, 2010.  Deitch officially starts his new post as museum director on June 1st and the exhibition is being organized with faster than average speed, due in part […]


Gabriel Orozco’s Whale of a Return to MoMa (NY Times) A Beating Heart of Social Import at the Studio Museum in Harlem (NY Times) Book Review:  John Singer Sargent’s Model Children (NY Times) “American Stories” at the MET:  A Roundup of Iconic Images (WSJ) Sotheby’s, Christie’s Contemporary Art Sales Total Drops 75% (Bloomberg) Glenn Ligon […]


Miami Fair:  Big Pieces, Smaller Prices and Relief (NY Times) Tweaking the Big Money Art World on Its Own Turf:  William Powhida (NY Times) A Rembrandt Identity Crisis at the Getty (NY Times) Peter Zumthor, Michael Govan Plot LACMA’s Future (LA Times) The Worlds of David Hockney (LA Times) Sizzle Sans Steak and other New […]


Tim Burton at the Museum of Modern Art (NY Times) Gift Guide:  Critics Select the Best Art & Architecture Books (NY Times) A Survey Shows Pain of Recession for Artists (NY Times) Rembrandt Real and Fake at Getty Museum (LA Times) Art Review:  Tomoo Gokita at Honor Fraser Gallery (LA Times) Russians are Collecting Used […]


‘Futurism’ at Tate Modern: The Futurists’ Futile Chase After Motion (NY Times) In Venice, Peter Greenaway Takes Veronese’s Figures Out to Play (NY Times) This Summer, Some Galleries Are Sweating Their Survival (NY Times) ‘Your Bright Future’ at LACMA (LA Times) Christie’s Resumes Cutting Jobs After May N.Y. Auctions Decline (Bloomberg) Judge Slams MoMA, Guggenheim […]


Use Their Work Free?  Some Artists Say No To Google (NY Times) A Thriftier Lot Comes To Basel This Year (NY Times) A New Concept in Handling Art (NY Times Global Edition) Transforming the Louvre in Uncertain Times (NY Times Global Edition) OCMA Sells paintings to private collector, prompting criticism (LA Times) Window Shoppers:   Seasoned […]


For Art Lovers, Basel Doesn’t End at the Fair (NY Times) A More Serene Venice Biennale (NY Times) Den Mother to the Louche and Famous:  Francis Bacon (NY Times) The Intersection of Islam, America, and Identity (NY Times) The Art World’s Olympics:  Venice Biennale (WSJ) Exhibitions Axed as Recession Bites (Art Newspaper) Review:  Pae White […]


By Emily Waldorf I have enjoyed reading Sarah Thornton’s insightful freelance pieces on the art world for quite some time, so you can imagine my delight when her new book, Seven Days in the Art World, was published.  The material is based on over 250 interviews with a powerful cast of characters including dealers, auction […]