Not exact matches
ART CRITIC JERRY SALTZ recently expressed his frustration with
Gagosian, Pace, Hauser & Wirth and David Zwirner
galleries in New York magazine, describing the four mega
dealers as overwhelming behemoths causing much consternation in the art world.
The answer is long and complex, and has much to do with the radical shifts in culture that have occurred over the past 25 years or so, both in Britain and the world: the unstoppable rise of art as commodity and the successful artist as a brand; the ascendancy of a post-Thatcher generation of Young British Artists (YBAs) who set out, unapologetically, to make shock - art that also made money; the attendant rise of uber -
dealers such as Jay Jopling in London and Larry
Gagosian in New York; and the birth of a new kind of
gallery culture, in which the blockbuster show rules and merchandising is a lucrative sideline.
In an explosive case, a New York collector has sued Jeff Koons's studio and the artist's
dealer Gagosian Gallery in New York Supreme Court, claiming that they have failed to deliver three sculptures despite him paying over USD$ 13 million for them.
Dealers Larry
Gagosian, who has 14
galleries around the world with an estimated $ 925m in revenue; David Zwirner, whose estimated revenues are around $ 225m; Marian Goodman and the White Cube gallerist Jay Jopling all rank high on the list.
Now, once again, the artist and the
Gagosian gallery, his former
dealer, have been sued for unauthorised use of an image by Ashley Salazar, a model who originally posted the picture to Instagram.
However, when people are new to collecting, they tend to start by buying from mainstream
dealers like
Gagosian rather than
galleries that represent emerging artists.
Stefania Bortolami has been part of New York's art scene for years: first, as an artist liaison for Larry
Gagosian — after a successful stint with the legendary London
dealer Anthony d'Offay; then co-owning a Chelsea
gallery with Amalia Dayan and finally, on her own, as the founder of an eponymous
gallery five blocks down the street from the previous space.
Both Deitch and
Gagosian started in art by working with
dealer Leo Castelli before opening up their own eponymous
galleries.
Given all the press surrounding the
Gagosian gallery, it is striking when a story appears that puts the world's premier art
dealer in the position of unwitting misfeasor.
Big names like
Gagosian and David Zwirner occupy the largest booths at the fair, which also hosts an impressive number of regional
galleries, as well as
dealers from Japan.
Even with
Gagosian's fearsome reputation, it comes to pass that the issue of the Met's ownership was not purposefully concealed either by
Gagosian gallery or by the seller, former art
dealer and ArtForum publisher, Charles Cowles:
This Friday, the stalwart San Francisco
dealer John Berggruen will open his new 10,000 - square - foot, three - story
gallery next to
Gagosian's.
The 2017 edition sees the return of some of the world's most significant
galleries, including, among many others: Old Master and Early Modern specialists Jean - Luc Baroni, Bacarelli Botticelli, Johnny van Haeften, Colnaghi, Sam Fogg, Kunstkammer Georg Laue, Richard Nagy,); leading 20th century
galleries Acquavella,
Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Lévy Gorvy, and David Zwirner; renowned antiquities
dealers Ariadne
Galleries and David Ghezelbash Archéologie; specialists in rare books and illuminated manuscripts Dr Jörn Gunther Rare Books and Les Enluminures; tribal
dealers Entwistle
Gallery and specialists in Indian and Islamic art Prahlad Bubbar; and photography
galleries Bruce Silverstein and Galerie Daniel Blau.
Two spaces in Chelsea — the better part of three floors at 980 Madison Avenue and, next door, a bookshop and small
gallery — would seem like a surfeit of real estate to most
dealers, but not Larry
Gagosian.
They included artists,
dealers, and collectors, but primarily they were those often neglected, sometimes maligned, and — unless employed by the
Gagosian Gallery — usually underpaid brainiacs known as curators.
Gagosian Gallery became the artist's primary
dealer in 1991 after opening a space in New York's Soho district with large entryways and a supported foundation.
Twenty - four new
galleries are exhibiting, some with familiar blue - chip names like
Gagosian, Gladstone
Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Marian Goodman and Matthew Marks
Gallery (prompting complaints from some
dealers that the fair's identity is evolving away from Tefaf's historical roots.)
Takashi Murakami's super tall skinny buxom anime girl sculptures, with the large panel painting «Rose Milk» (1997) acrylic on canvas in the background, presented by
Gagosian Gallery — in newly opened Frieze art fair special section of «For Your Infotainment / Hudson and Feature Inc.» dedicated to the legacy of the dealer Hudson (1950 — 2014) and his influential gallery Feature Inc. (Chicago and NYC) #Frieze #TakashiMurakami #RoseMilk @gagosian @frieze
Gallery — in newly opened Frieze art fair special section of «For Your Infotainment / Hudson and Feature Inc.» dedicated to the legacy of the
dealer Hudson (1950 — 2014) and his influential
gallery Feature Inc. (Chicago and NYC) #Frieze #TakashiMurakami #RoseMilk @gagosian @frieze
gallery Feature Inc. (Chicago and NYC) #Frieze #TakashiMurakami #RoseMilk @
gagosian @friezenewyork
Art
dealer Larry
Gagosian pushes the best work — Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, Richard Wright, Urs Fischer — and fills the gap in our public
galleries with real taste and belief, writes Jonathan Jones
One of the night's big surprises at a fair where many
dealers chose to show obscure or rarely - seen artists was the booth of the
dealer Christoph Van de Weghe, a towering man with silver hair and a blue suit, who was presenting work by Damien Hirst, who is only about a year out of his global spot painting extravaganza at every
Gagosian gallery in the world and a Tate retrospective.
Then this year he made a surprising switch from
Gagosian gallery to Zwirner, the latest in a string of high - profile defections from the former
dealer to the latter.
The
dealer Larry
Gagosian has scheduled an exhibition of Hirst's «spot» paintings in all eleven of his
galleries spread across eight cities on three continents, with a total of 331 works on display worldwide.
Other big transactions included a $ 12 million Calder and two $ 2.5 million Lucio Fontanas at Helly Nahmad
Gallery (which was manned by the indicted namesake
dealer's father and brother), two other $ 2 million Stingels at Massimo di Carlo and
Gagosian, and a $ 7 million Robert Ryman from 1966 at Dominique Levy.
Longtime
Gagosian Gallery artist Cy Twombly was fairly productive in the last decade of his life, and his
dealer has staged many a show of his brilliant final works.
Opening: «Cy Twombly» at
Gagosian Gallery Longtime
Gagosian Gallery artist Cy Twombly was fairly productive in the last decade of his life, and his
dealer has staged many a show of his brilliant final works.
While the Klimt was hanging at MOMA's fifth - floor
galleries last year, Winfrey was approached through Geffen by art
dealer Larry
Gagosian, who had a potential buyer lined up, said the person.
The 60 exhibitors include top
dealers such as
Gagosian Gallery, David Zwirner and Pace.
The owners of these
galleries, Larry
Gagosian and Arne Glimcher, are the principal
dealers, respectively, for two Hollywood moguls who are amassing enormous private art collections, music and movie tycoon David Geffen and superagent Michael Ovitz.
Yet on Thursday, Brice Marden, 78, announced that he is joining Larry
Gagosian's
gallery after more than 20 years with the
dealer Matthew Marks.
Gagosian Gallery mounts exhibition juxtaposing Chinese antiquities and contemporary art in collaboration with Asian art and antiquities
dealer Gisèle Croës.
Sherman has stayed with her original
dealers Metro Pictures in New York and Sprüth Magers in Europe since 1984 in addition she sometimes shows work with
Gagosian Gallery.
Out in the
galleries of Paris, it's recognized that the city doesn't have as extensive a
dealer scene as London, where big - name New Yorkers like Mr. Werner, David Zwirner,
Gagosian, Pace, Dominique Levy, Marian Goodman and Skarstedt have all established new spaces since 2011.
Since Mr.
Gagosian, the Manhattan - based
dealer, opened his first London
gallery on Heddon Street in the West End in May 2000, he has shown works by a range of artists, including Joseph Beuys, Jasper Johns and Georg Baselitz.
New York art
dealer Larry
Gagosian took a bet on the King's Cross district when he opened a second London
gallery there last year.
Now, eight years after
Gagosian opened an outpost in Rome (primarily to cater to Cy Twombly, who lived outside the city), the
dealer Gavin Brown has also announced plans to bring his vanguard - leading
gallery to Trastevere.
Thanks in no small part to the city's ability to attract the global elite, international
galleries including David Zwirner, Pace,
Gagosian, and Marian Goodman have all opened shop within London's limits as the stock of the city's native
dealers — Lisson, Sadie Coles HQ, and White Cube among them — soars.
(And that's not even counting the private sales brokered by his
dealers at the heavyweight
Gagosian Gallery.)
Both the
Gagosian Gallery, and Jay Jopling's White Cube, his American and British
dealers, have given the auction their blessing, possibly through gritted teeth.
The 37,000 sq ft Newport Street
Gallery, which opens on Thursday, free to all, is the work of Caruso St John, architects of the recent Tate Britain revamp, New Art
Gallery Walsall, Nottingham Contemporary and a growing empire of
galleries for art
dealer Larry
Gagosian, making them Britain's go - to practice for art spaces.
After many years of working happily and profitably with Richard Avedon (1923 - 2004), Fraenkel saw the
gallery's representation of the Avedon Estate snatched away by New York wheeler -
dealer Larry
Gagosian.
Whether he is placing multimillion - dollar bids at auction for publishing magnate S.I. Newhouse or record industry mogul David Geffen; brokering a $ 40 - million deal to buy 50 Abstract Expressionist and Pop art works given to Richard Weisman by his parents, the late Los Angeles collectors Frederick and Marcia Weisman; joining forces in a joint
gallery operation with Leo Castelli, the dean of New York contemporary art
dealers; staging museum - quality historical exhibitions; luring hot artists such as Salle, Philip Taaffe and Chris Burden to his stable or simply hiring staff,
Gagosian is in the news.
She was an exhibition coordinator and
dealer at
Gagosian Gallery, and the Director of Jose Freire Fine Art.
Few people have previewed
Gagosian's new outpost, but Meier's reputation as an art museum builder and the
dealer's habit of doing business in extraordinary spaces have created a buzz: This could be Southern California's most beautiful
gallery.
Gladstone
Gallery, one of the most prestigious
galleries in the United States, led by Barbara Gladstone, probably the second most famous art
dealer next to Larry
Gagosian, had a power - packed booth at Art Basel.
And that's how the Rosamund Felsen
Gallery was born at 669 N. La Cienega Blvd. in spring 1978 — a space that had once been occupied by other legendary Los Angeles
dealers, including Eugenia Butler, Riko Mizuno and empire builder Larry
Gagosian.
Across the street at Bortolami Dayan, a glamorously ambitious
gallery opened last year by Stefania Bortolami and Amalia Dayan, two dealers who defected from the Gagosian Gallery, the message is the same, at a much higher level: right now there is no bottom in sight to the depths of money available for buyi
gallery opened last year by Stefania Bortolami and Amalia Dayan, two
dealers who defected from the
Gagosian Gallery, the message is the same, at a much higher level: right now there is no bottom in sight to the depths of money available for buyi
Gallery, the message is the same, at a much higher level: right now there is no bottom in sight to the depths of money available for buying art.
The exclusive right to the primary sale of the «Celebration» series is held by
Gagosian Gallery, his dominant
dealer.
To wit: Painter often jokes about marching into the New York
galleries of David Zwirner and
Gagosian demanding money owed from the
dealers, and he allegedly hung a Berlin drug
dealer out of a window by his belt at the Four Seasons.
It was the opening of Marden's first show since leaving Matthew Marks, his
dealer of over two decades, in January, choosing instead to settle down with Larry
Gagosian and his global constellation of
galleries.
In four visits to Kappo Masa — the endlessly blogged - about, culinary - cultural «collaboration» at global art
dealer Larry
Gagosian's flagship
Gagosian Gallery on Madison Avenue — I did not see Masayoshi Takayama once.