The NYTimes’ Carol Vogel has been able to squeeze three days worth of coverage (Day one, two & three) regarding the exclusive Sotheby’s London auction of Damien Hirst works titled, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever. The 223 works were all bought by the auction’s close for a grand total of $200.7 million, exceeding estimates and […]
September 17th, 2008
Categories: Retrospective, Auction, British, Power players, Art Star, Celebrity . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: No Comments
The NYTimes reports that The Museum of Modern Art has finally found a successor to John Elderfield, chief curator of sculpture and painting:
[Ann] Temkin assumes the curatorial post, considered the most prestigious in the field of Modern art, as MoMA gears up for its second growth spurt in less than a decade[…]
In addition to the […]
September 3rd, 2008
Categories: Sculpture, Power players, Profile, Business, Museum, New York, Painting . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: No Comments
MSNBC.com has a piece on 798, one of the massive art spaces in Beijing gaining worldwide notoriety and dripping with a hip, trendy sheen unseen in the New York art world in recent times. More impressive is the sheer size of the space, owing to its previous life as a munitions factory.
August 27th, 2008
Categories: Asian, China, Beijing, Power players, Art Star, Painting, Opening, All-media, Video . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: No Comments
(ARTINFO) Marc Chagall Window Vandalized; Seven Indicted in International Art-Fraud Schemes; Basel Rejects Claim from Heirs of Persecuted Art Dealer; Permit for Oil Drilling Near Spiral Jetty Denied; (NYTIMES) Russian and Rich: Art’s New Tastemaker; (ARTFORUM) Sugar Rush — Terence Koh’s Asia Song Society opening reception; Cory Arcangel live and the opening of the new […]
August 19th, 2008
Categories: Installation, Power players, Art Star, Music, Asian, Moscow, Links, DUMBO, Celebrity, Party, Controversy, Stolen, All-media, New York, Brooklyn, Architecture, Profile, Opening . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: No Comments
Opening this weekend in the Lever House (Park Avenue and 54th Street) lobby is Damien Hirst’s latest, and quite ambitious, piece titled School: The Archaeology of Lost Desires, Comprehending Infinity, and the Search for Knowledge. The $10 million installation was purchased by the owner of Lever House, Aby Rosen, (who also owns the Seagram Building […]
November 9th, 2007
Categories: Solo Show, Installation, British, Power players, Art Star, New York, Business, Private showing, Opening . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: No Comments
Since Bloomberg first reported the news that Damien Hirst’s diamond-studded, platinum skull piece, For the Love of God, had sold for the asking price of £50 million, there has been a flurry of scepticism surrounding the purchase.
The ‘consortium of businessmen,’ or, “unnamed investor group,” includes Hirst, and why that raised eyebrows was dissected by […]
September 5th, 2007
Categories: Celebrity, Art Star, Power players, London, Sculpture, Controversy, Business, Uncategorized . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: 1278 Comments
Carol Vogel of the NYTimes reports on Takashi Murakami’s new works and opening at the Gagosian Gallery:
In the central gallery stood the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. In place of his usual garb — baggy cargo pants, T-shirt and sneakers — he was done up in a traditional hakama, his hair pulled back in a neat […]
May 10th, 2007
Categories: Art Star, Power players, Celebrity, History, Opening, New York, Painting . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: No Comments