Three years after she abandoned SoHo for Fifth Avenue and 58th Street, gallery owner Mary Boone is negotiating a lease for a Chelsea outpost. She has no choice.
"The artists [I represent] are midcareer," said Ms. Boone, during a quiet moment in her uptown gallery at 745 Fifth Avenue, where she moved from SoHo in 1996. Read MoreHow Saatchi Orchestrated Brooklyn Museum Frenzy
For two weeks in September, Charles Saatchi showed up at the Brooklyn Museum of Art every day to install his art collection for a show that will occupy the entire museum for more than three months. Mr. Saatchi, who runs the advertising firm C&M Saatchi from London, has over Read MoreOn Oct. 8, virtually the entire Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will be given over to 200 paintings and drawings by 47-year-old,Naples-bornFrancesco Clemente for a retrospective that museum curators have been preparing for several years. Mr. Clemente's sensual work has been a mainstay of the neo-Mannerist revival of interest in rich Renaissance-style art. The artist, who Read More
Final plans are still being worked out for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's first National Design Triennial, a showcase of trends in design with an emphasis on younger talent to be held every three years, starting in March 2000. According to sources close to the museum, however, Gabellini Associateshasbeen tapped to design the show itself, which will Read More
In recent years, Deitch Project, a gallery in SoHo, has made a specialty of exhibiting the we-are-the-world style of art that's become known as "globalism." The gallery has shown artists from 20 different nations, bragged gallery owner Jeffrey Deitch, ranging from Y.Z. Kami, an Iranian, to Shahzia Sikander, a Muslim from Pakistan, to Mariko Mori, Read More
When Larry Gagosian first came to New York from Los Angeles in 1986, he opened a small gallery on West 23rd Street between 10th and 11th avenues. The silver-haired gallerist was probably the only dealer in Chelsea at the time. In 1989, enriched by sales to S.I. Newhouse Jr., Leonard Lauder and other big collectors, Read More
Each year for the past 17 years, "Between the Bridges," an outdoor sculpture exhibition, has been held in the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, a tiny little piece of windswept real estate between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges overlooking New York Harbor and lower Manhattan. Lorraine Walsh and Christopher Drago, curators for this year's Read More
If there is one art gallery that has controlled most of the heavy-hitting contemporary artists in recent history, it is Leo Castelli. The gallery has represented Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Liechtenstein, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol. But earlier this year, Castelli moved to East 79th Street, effectively losing its powerbase. Many of its remaining Read More
For the past 10 years, the Museum of Modern Art has been selling highly designed, museum-endorsed products from an outpost across the street where design seems to have been an afterthought. All that is about to change. Between July 31 and Aug. 14, the MoMA Design Store, 44 West 53rd Street, is putting its Noguchi Read More
In late March, SoHo gallerist Sean Kelly sent a package of information about one of his artists via courier to Santa Fe, N.M. The package was delivered to Tom Ford, the creative director of the Gucci Group N.V., who was taking time off from a nasty takeover battle to visit his ailing grandmother in the Read More
Fame is hell.
In the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition entitled Fame After Photography , there wasn't even enough room to accommodate the life-size cutout of Mike Myers as Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me that stands in the office of the show's co-curators, Carole Kismaric and Marvin Heiferman. "That's just our mascot. It's not Read MoreA year ago, Ali Tayar was just another downtown architect. Working in a renascent modernist idiom that owes as much to the James Bond movie Dr. No as Eero Saarinen's Trans World Airlines terminal at Kennedy Airport, he did interiors for Waterloo, a restaurant on Charles Street, and Gansevoort Gallery on Gansevoort Street. Some of Read More
Late last year, Mark Dickstein sent two Mapplethorpe photographs that he owns to Christie's to see about selling them in an upcoming auction. The 40-year-old head of an investment management firm had purchased the photographs–one was of a calla lily and the other was of a bunch of tulips in a vase–in 1994 from the Read More
Barry Friedman seems to have been born buying and selling beautiful things in a quick Brooklyn staccato. Since the 1960's, when he went into the art business, the dealer has been jumping onto trends and creating markets for new media before his competitors. When Tiffany glass was hot in the 70's, Mr. Friedman established himself Read More
It's been more than 20 years since, inspired by a door in Barcelona, Julian Schnabel smashed a set of crockery and glued the pieces to a canvas, creating a group of paintings that became as integral to the 1980's as Jackson Pollock's drip paintings were to the 1950's. From April 22 to June 5, a Read More
