Next week, the Swiss Institute contemporary arts center will move from its current location on third-floor space on Broadway to the nearby 18 Wooster, former home to a larger space of Jeffrey Deitch’s Deitch Projects. “It was a longterm wish to have a storefront,” Swiss Institute director and curator Gianni Jetzer told The Observer. "And Read More
For today, Jeffrey Deitch is the king of Los Angeles. The L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art, which is run by Mr. Deitch, a former New York art dealer, announced today that its street-art exhibition, "Art in the Streets," attracted 201,352 visitors during its April 17-Aug. 8, 2011, run. The exhibition now ranks as the most-visited Read More
Ever since Jeffery Deitch left New York and dissolved his gallery to become director of L.A. MOCA, the art world has speculated where his artists would end up. Today, it got at least one answer: Sean Kelly Gallery announced that it would represent L.A.-born painter Kehinde Wiley, one of Deitch Projects' brightest stars. Wiley's work Read More
Those of us who wished that Jeffrey Deitch, the art world's LeBron James in his cruel defection from the city that made him, would fade from the canvas upon moving away, apparently have another thing coming. First there was James Franco's globally buzzy performance-slash-publicity-stunt, and now another apparent L.A. success.
Deitch's posthumous show of Dennis Hopper's Read More
L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art, under the new leadership of gallerist Jeffrey Deitch, will be hosting James Franco's latest performance piece. SOAP at MOCA: James Franco on General Hospital will consist of a live taping on location at the museum.
According to the MOCA release:
In this special episode, Franco, James Franco's character Read More
A gyrating snake of people, pressed together tightly, made their way through the grand opening of the Hole Saturday night. New York's newest gallery, on SoHo's Greene Street, is founded by former Jeffrey Deitch acolytes and gallery directors Kathy Grayson and Meghan Coleman. The "Not Quite Open for Business Show," announced by email blast, was choked Read More
With mutton-chop sideburns, a gone-fishing hat and a Ratatouille-style accent, Thierry Guetta is a character that documentary filmmakers pray for: gregarious, oddball, dogged and hungry for fame. In April, a documentary about Mr. Guetta—who’s either an overnight art-world sensation, or wholesale bogus creation—opens in New York, directed by British art-star Banksy. But fans of Mr. Read More
As The Observer's Leon Neyfakh reported yesterday evening, Deitch Projects will "cease operation" when Jeffery Deitch moves to MoCA June 1. In the meantime, the art world is analyzing how his background has prepared him for the directorship of a troubled museum.
In a column for The New York Times, Roberta Smith Read More
SoHo gallery Deitch Projects will close after more than a decade as a result of the appointment of its owner, Jeffrey Deitch, to the directorship of L.A.'s MoCA, according to the museum's board chairs David Johnson and Maria Bell.
In a joint phone interview, Mr. Johnson and Ms. Bell, who co-chaired the search committee that led Read More
New York gallerist Jeffrey Deitch is "set" to take over as director at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art, writes The Wall Street Journal.
But the announcement of his appointment, originally scheduled for 10:30 AM Pacific Time, has been "delayed indefinitely" to accommodate a mayoral new conference. In the meantime, "The board is voting Read More
Hans Ulrich Obrist enjoys a level of prominence in the art world that would have been unimaginable for a curator of contemporary art 20 years ago. Back then, curators didn't get famous, and though they talked among themselves about their work, no one else cared very much about who they were or how they made Read More
On July 15, the Deitch gallery on Grand Street will host a special fund-raiser for 36-year-old designer Tara Subkoff, who, it was recently reported, has been diagnosed with a benign brain tumor that can be fatal if not operated on within two years. Artists and galleries are donating works for auction, with the proceeds going Read More
The parties at Miami Art Basel, which this year runs from Dec. 4 through Dec. 7, are always decadent. And judging from this week's underwhelming party scene here in New York, some of our socials departed earlier in the week for the pool and rooftop parties in hotels a little further south. While the mega-fetes Read More
Last night, we met up with André Balazs—the hotel magnate behind a cartel of boutique sleeperies, which includes the Mercer in SoHo, L.A.’s Chateau Marmont and the Standards. Looking dapper in a form-fitting gray suit that had a subtle sheen, Mr. Balazs, 50, had just flown back to New York after a weekend at Art Read More
A sprawling abstract artwork greets visitors to the 37th-floor conference center of the high-powered law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Painted directly on a wide, curved wall with marker and acrylic, Double Down was installed by conceptual artist Matthew Ritchie some four years ago in an otherwise-refined office environment, all gleaming, caramel-colored marble Read More
