“I never started working with an artist when he or she was a big star, or at the height of their powers. It’s nice to see people prevail who I believe are very thoughtful, highly talented, one of a kind—who have found a unique means to express their innermost being.”
— I enjoy Marian Goodman’s approach to choosing artists for her gallery
In case you didn’t know, us art world peeps be classy.
Follow Monday?
Larry Gagosian has galleries in New York (and a bookstore), Athens, Los Angeles..ahem…Beverly Hills, London, and Rome. According to his website he has offices in Hong Kong and La Jolla (what?! why?!). He is also opening galleries in Paris and Hong Kong, which I am guessing is in addition to the office he already has there. My question is, why not Berlin or Beijing? Too much competition? Is it because those cities are extremely cutting edge and he, well, isn’t? Maybe he just likes paving that new way?
Who knows…Well, Larry probably knows, but I don’t have his phone number so I can’t ask him. These are just some open ended thoughts.
» Top 10 Shows (Someone other than me) Didn't See in New York
I can’t really relate because I didn’t see any shows in New York this year, but some of these are definitely on my list of things I was extra jealous of. Martin Kippenberger, not so much. Manzoni, very much.
» 10 things New York Magazine Learned at Chelsea Openings
1. Artwork has shrunk. Lots of artists are doing work they — or their dealers — hope collectors will pick up, cash-and-carry, like candy bars at the supermarket checkout line. Kehinde Wiley, Raoul de Keyser, Kara Walker, and many others showed more-portable art.
2. Sex still sells. Or draws eyeballs, at least. While most viewers gave two seconds to everything before moving on, Moscow painter Dasha Shishkin’s vivid golden sex scenes at Zach Feuer won long gazes and much discussion.
3. Art loves Hollywood. And vice versa. Dennis Hopper’s exhibition at Shafrazi blended both crowds. Matt Dillon and Sean Penn posed in front of Hopper’s photographs of Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, and the twentieth-century art-world elite. Video monitors poking out of the wall at angles screened Hopper movies. (Larry Gagosian even dropped by the after-party at Indochine.) “I like the show, and there are already pieces I think are very special — the Paul Newman photograph, and the Andy Warhol holding the lily,” Salman Rushdie told us. Nonetheless, he’s probably not buying. “I collect contemporary Indian art,” he said.
Obviously there are 7 more, however I won’t post them because it gets long and you can figure out how to click the above link on your own.
» Dealers decamping to vacation spots such as the Hamptons to score sales
NEW YORK. Beaches, sea breezes and deep-pocketed collectors on holiday are luring some Manhattan dealers to set up seasonal outposts in the Hamptons, on the eastern shore of Long Island.
“I’d wanted a gallery in East Hampton for years but the rents were too high and I couldn’t get the location I wanted. But now with reduced rents, opening here in May was a no brainer,” says Bernard Goldberg, a dealer of 40 years’ standing.
These days, the recession has markedly changed the landscape where Jon Bon Jovi, Steven Spielberg and Martha Stewart summer alongside artists Chuck Close, Eric Fischl and April Gornik. Mansions linger on the market, while rents for prime commercial properties have dived. Rent for the new gallery Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts is in the $100-$125 per square foot range. “A year ago, the rents were $200 a square foot,” says Mr Goldberg, whose premises are just steps away from Hermès and other luxury boutiques.
Everybody’s working for the weekend…
And I have your guide to all the shows you should (or should not) see in Los Angeles, if you feel so inclined to go gallery hopping. The best shows are in Culver City and luckily in the same 3 block vicinity, so it’s a one park shop situation.
Here are a few others that are always good to stop by:
Katrina Moorhead a darkling plain, 2009
Hey all you Houston-ites* Katrina Moorhead is showing at Inman Gallery RIGHT NOW. I wouldn’t miss this one. Seriously, I wouldn’t. If I were you, I would already be there.
*Mom, this means you.
