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Frieze New York Kicks Off with Seven-Figure Sales and High Energy: ‘It’s a Fiesta’

Frieze New York kicked off its preview day at the Shed in Manhattan with strong sales and high energy, as many attendees arrived fresh from the Venice Biennale. Galleries reported brisk presales and early placements, with White Cube selling major works by El Anatsui and Antony Gormley for seven-figure sums, and other dealers like James Cohan Gallery nearly selling out their booths. Collectors, advisors, and celebrities including Anderson Cooper, Michael Stipe, and Leonardo DiCaprio were spotted, while the Brooklyn Museum made acquisitions through the new Sherman Family Foundation Acquisition Fund.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 23, 2025 visibility 23 link 39 artists, 10 galleries

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The sixth edition of Upstate Art Weekend (UAW) launched with a party at Assembly in Kingston, New York, founded by Helen Toomer in 2020. The festival has grown from 23 participants to 158 across 6,000 square miles, reflecting the pandemic-era exodus of artists and collectors from New York City to the Hudson Valley region. The event featured a fundraiser for abortion-rights nonprofit Noise for Now and drew a diverse crowd of attendees.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 19, 2025 visibility 15 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

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Takashi Murakami opened his latest exhibition, “JAPONISME → Cognitive Revolution: Learning from Hiroshige,” at Gagosian New York, building on a 2024 presentation at the Brooklyn Museum. A second show, “Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow,” opens later this month at the Cleveland Museum of Art, expanding on a 2022 iteration at the Broad in Los Angeles with new works and a monumental installation reimagining a Japanese Buddhist temple. In an interview with ARTnews, Murakami discusses his process of copying historical works—from Hiroshige’s ukiyo-e prints to Monet and Van Gogh—as a method of cultural excavation, incorporating UFOs as symbols of awareness.

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article news schedule Jul 28, 2025 visibility 16 link 13 artists, 1 gallery

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The article examines the seductive and often corrupting influence of extreme wealth in the art world, detailing how high-end dealers, advisors, and collectors indulge in lavish lifestyles involving private jets, couture, and exclusive parties. It highlights recent scandals, including the imprisonment of art dealer Inigo Philbrick and advisor Lisa Schiff for defrauding clients, and a new legal battle between prominent art advisors Barbara Guggenheim and Abigail Asher, who accuse each other of misappropriating millions to fund luxury expenses.

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article news schedule Jun 10, 2025 visibility 20 link 29 artists, 11 galleries

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Frieze has announced over 280 exhibitors for its October fairs in London, with around 160 galleries at Frieze London and 120 at Frieze Masters, running concurrently in Regent's Park from October 15 to 19. In auction news, the original Hermès Birkin bag prototype will be sold at Sotheby's Paris on July 10, and Bonhams has appointed Celine Assimon as chief commercial officer. Galleries saw significant moves: Christian Deydier in Paris is closing due to new EU regulations on imported cultural objects, while Carroll Dunham joined Matthew Brown, Cristina Iglesias signed with Hauser and Wirth, and several other artists changed representation. Meanwhile, Tate Liverpool received £12 million in UK government funding plus philanthropic support for its redevelopment, the Royal Academy of Arts named Simon Wallis as its new secretary and chief executive, and the Whitney Museum suspended its Independent Study Program for a year after controversy over censorship of a pro-Palestine performance. The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation made three new appointments, and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris faces eviction.

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article news schedule Jun 5, 2025 visibility 20 link 22 artists, 3 galleries

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This article from Artnet News recaps a series of holiday parties and galas in the New York art world during December 2016. Highlights include the New York Botanical Garden's 18th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball, attended by Anne Hathaway, Tinsley Mortimer, and Andrew Warren; artnet's own holiday party featuring the Bumbys and a magician; ACRIA's 21st Annual Holiday Dinner honoring the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and actress Judith Light; and Project for Empty Space's Winter Bacchanal Benefit, which presented the first Badass Art Woman Awards to curators Rujeko Hockley, Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, and Deana Haggag.

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article news schedule Jul 4, 2025 visibility 14 link 22 artists, 2 galleries

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Mitch and Emily Rales, the billionaire founders of the Glenstone Foundation and its private museum in Potomac, Maryland, are divorcing. The foundation, established in 2006, holds net assets of $4.6 billion and an endowment rivaling that of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The article revisits longstanding criticisms of private art museums, including Glenstone, arguing they function as tax shelters, social climbing tools, and competitors to public institutions. It notes Glenstone's restrictive policies—appointment-only access, a ban on visitors under 12, and a prohibition on gum chewing—and references past unionization efforts by its workers.

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Remembering Pat Steir, one of the 20th century’s late-blooming great artists

Pat Steir, the acclaimed American painter known for her Waterfall series, died in Manhattan on 25 March at age 87. The article traces her career from early struggles as a freelance illustrator and art director, through her transformative encounter with Sol LeWitt in the early 1970s, to her eventual emergence as a major figure in contemporary painting. It highlights her teaching at CalArts and Parsons, her involvement with feminist and artist-run institutions like Heresies and Printed Matter, and the pivotal moment in the early 1980s when she cut up a reproduction of a Jan Brueghel the Elder flower painting into 64 panels, repainting each in a different historical style.

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rate_review review schedule Jul 18, 2025 visibility 19 link 8 artists, 1 gallery

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Christian Marclay's latest supercut film, "Doors," is now on view at the Brooklyn Museum after stops in Boston and Europe. The 50-minute looped video compiles scenes of famous actors opening and closing doors from various movies, following the success of Marclay's 2011 hit "The Clock," a 24-hour video-clock that synchronizes on-screen timepieces with the viewer's actual time. The article critiques "Doors" as a less profound, more self-obsessed work that lacks the emotional resonance of its predecessor.

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Artnet News examines the top five auction results for Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose meteoric rise and tragic death at age 27 fueled a legendary market. The list includes works such as "Versus Medici" (1982), which sold for $50.82 million at Sotheby's in 2021; "El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile)" (1983), which fetched $67.1 million at Christie's in 2023; and "Untitled" (1982), which reached $85 million at Phillips in 2022. The article highlights the artist's synthesis of graffiti and Renaissance aesthetics, his relationships with figures like Andy Warhol, and the explosive growth of his market over the past decade.

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article news schedule Jul 2, 2025 visibility 20 link 21 artists, 3 galleries

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Artnet News published its quarterly museum artist ranking for June 2025, analyzing temporary exhibitions at over 250 U.S. museums to identify which living artists received the most institutional attention. The list includes over 4,500 names, with Indigenous contemporary artists dominating the top ranks: Cara Romero and Sky Hopinka remain highly visible, joined by Jeffrey Gibson and Andrea Carlson. Cindy Sherman appears in at least 10 group shows nationwide, while Alex Katz continues as a rare painter favored by museums at age 97. The ranking prioritizes career retrospectives, dedicated exhibitions, and special commissions over group show appearances.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 10, 2025 visibility 15 link 5 artists, 2 galleries

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The Nahmad family sold a Francis Bacon painting titled *Pope* (1958) for $15 million at the VIP opening of Art Basel. The work, which had been purchased by Helly Nahmad gallery for $6.6 million at a Sotheby’s auction in 2019, was the second-highest known price at the fair, trailing only a $40 million Louise Bourgeois *Spider* sold by Hauser & Wirth.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 4, 2025 visibility 18 link 10 artists, 2 galleries

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Artist Brad Kahlhamer prepares for his first solo exhibition with Venus Over Manhattan at 39 Great Jones Street, featuring energetic paintings on bedsheets that blend Plains Indian winter counts, pop-cultural graphics, and Manhattan's post-punk scene. The article follows Kahlhamer through the week leading up to the show, including his visit to TEFAF New York at the Park Avenue Armory, where his work "American Horse" was displayed in the gallery's booth, and his reflections on the installation process and the portable bedsheet medium inspired by Indigenous traditions.

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article culture schedule May 13, 2025 visibility 23 link 31 artists, 6 galleries

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The article examines the resurgence of ceramics as a fine art medium, tracing its history from ancient Chinese and Greek pottery to the record-breaking $36 million sale of a Ming Dynasty chicken cup in 2014. It highlights influential figures like Peter Voulkos, who established ceramics departments at major institutions, and artists such as Ken Price, Ron Nagle, and Betty Woodman. Recent major museum exhibitions—including 'Strange Clay' at London’s Hayward Gallery, 'Funk You Too!' at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design, and 'Ceramics in the Expanded Field' at MASS MoCA—showcase a new generation of artists pushing the medium beyond traditional craft.

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trending_up market schedule May 9, 2025 visibility 21 link 10 artists, 3 galleries

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New York appraiser and art dealer Glenn Spellman discovered an abstract painting signed "E.H." on the Goodwill thrift store website last fall. Suspecting it might be by Eva Hesse, he enlisted his sister Kara Spellman, director of estates and acquisitions at Hollis Taggart gallery, who confirmed the painting's authenticity by consulting the artist's catalogue raisonné at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's library. The painting, titled *Landscape Forms* (1959), was acquired for $40,000 and will be auctioned at Christie's New York on May 15 with an estimate of $60,000–$80,000. A second Hesse work, *No title* (1964–65), will be offered at Phillips New York the previous day.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 2, 2025 visibility 17 link 13 artists, 3 galleries

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Artist Oscar Yi Hou curated the group show "Deviations" at James Fuentes gallery in Tribeca, featuring 12 queer and trans artists including Juliana Huxtable, Martine Gutierrez, and Ser Serpas. The exhibition, on view through May 7, includes works by Yi Hou himself and explores themes of hybridity, queer intimacy, and the illusion of function through sculptures and paintings. Yi Hou, a 26-year-old breakout star on the gallery's roster, previously had a highly successful solo show "The Beat of Life" in November, with works acquired by institutions like the Brooklyn Museum.

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trending_up market schedule May 14, 2026 visibility 5 link 38 artists, 12 galleries

$2.2 million El Anatsui work leads Frieze New York 2026 sales.

Frieze New York 2026 opened its 15th edition at The Shed in Manhattan on May 13th with a VIP preview, drawing collectors, museum directors, artists, and celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio, Julia Fox, and Sharon Stone. The fair features 68 galleries from 25 countries and runs through May 17th, with a $2.2 million work by El Anatsui leading reported sales.

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trending_up market schedule May 15, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 4 link 14 artists, 7 galleries

For young dealers, being in New York is key to surviving and thriving

The article examines how young art dealers in New York are adapting to the city's high costs and competitive market during the May art season. It highlights galleries like Europa, Esther, and Gordon Robichaux participating in multiple fairs simultaneously, such as Frieze New York and Independent New York, to maximize sales and visibility. Dealers like Pali Kashi and Silke Lindner emphasize strategic resourcefulness, with some sales already covering fair costs, while referencing artist Josh Kline's essay on how real estate pressures stifle artistic risk-taking.

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trending_up market schedule May 7, 2026 visibility 23 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

Loïc Gouzer’s Auction Platform Fair Warning to Sell Major Banksy at Tiffany’s Flagship Store

Loïc Gouzer's auction platform Fair Warning will sell Banksy's *Girl and Balloon on Found Landscape* from the 'Crude Oils' series in an invitation-only live auction at Tiffany & Co.'s Fifth Avenue flagship store on May 20. The work, which carries a $13 to $18 million estimate, modifies a thrifted landscape painting with the artist's signature red heart-shaped balloon. It will be publicly viewable in the store before the sale.

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candle obituary schedule Mar 25, 2026 visibility 24 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

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Thaddeus Mosley, the acclaimed American sculptor known for his monumental wood abstractions, has died at the age of 99 in Pittsburgh. Throughout a career spanning seven decades, Mosley transformed salvaged walnut, sycamore, and cherry wood into curvaceous, gravity-defying forms that balanced immense weight with a sense of lightness. Though he was a long-standing pillar of the Pittsburgh creative community, he achieved widespread national recognition and major museum representation only in his 90s.

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candle obituary schedule Jun 24, 2025 visibility 14 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

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Rosalind Fox Solomon, a photographer known for her piercing black-and-white images of alienation, racism, and marginalization, died in New York at age 95. Her representative, Stephen Bulger Gallery, confirmed her passing. Over nearly six decades, she documented marginalized individuals—from Black Americans in the South to people with AIDS in New York to Palestinians in the West Bank—using a Hasselblad camera. Her work was marked by an empathetic yet distant approach, capturing the inner and outer realities of her subjects without close connection.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 11, 2025 visibility 17 link 9 artists, 1 gallery

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The article details the career of artist Grace Hartigan, who by 1954 had overcome self-doubt and gained critical and commercial success with her bold, figurative-abstraction paintings. It recounts her solo exhibitions at Tibor de Nagy, acquisitions by MoMA and the Whitney, and her defiance of critic Clement Greenberg. The piece then focuses on a new exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art, "Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention," curated by Jared Ledesma, which explores how her relationships with avant-garde poets like Frank O'Hara and Barbara Guest shaped her work and provided a sense of belonging in the downtown New York scene.

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candle obituary schedule May 2, 2025 visibility 18 link 10 artists, 2 galleries

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Dara Birnbaum, a pioneering video artist known for subverting mainstream media through her re-edited television clips, has died at age 78. Her longtime representative, Marian Goodman Gallery, confirmed her death but did not disclose a cause. Birnbaum rose to prominence in the late 1970s and 1980s by pirating TV programs and resequencing their images to disrupt passive viewing. Her most famous work, *Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman* (1978–79), loops clips of Lynda Carter as the superhero, exposing hidden politics and questioning the show's brand of feminism. The piece is now regarded as a landmark in both feminist art and video art.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 16, 2025 visibility 21 link 9 artists, 1 gallery

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Gloria Klein, a late New York-based painter known for anxious acrylic arrangements and methodical mathematical systems, is the subject of a new solo exhibition titled "Crisis Management" opening January 9, 2026, at Anat Ebgi New York. The show presents many of her later paintings for the first time, and coincides with the announcement that Anat Ebgi now represents her estate. Klein, born in Brooklyn in 1936, was a queer artist who participated in the feminist publication HERESIES, created portraits of critics Arlene Raven and Lucy Lippard, curated the 1977 exhibition "10 Downtown: 10 Years" at PS1, and was a member of the Criss Cross art cooperative. Despite a recent sale of her work for $30,000 at Frieze Los Angeles in 2023, she remains relatively unknown.

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Emerging artist Aiza Ahmed, a 28-year-old Pakistani-born painter and sculptor who recently completed her MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design, is having a breakout moment in New York. Her first solo show, "The Music Room," is on view at Sargent's Daughters, while she participates in two prestigious residencies: Silver Art Projects at 4 World Trade Center and the Fire Station residency in Doha, directed by Wael Shawky. Ahmed's work explores themes of migration, belonging, and identity, drawing on her family's experience of Partition and her own upbringing across Dubai, London, and the U.S. She will also be the youngest artist at the inaugural Art Basel Qatar in February 2025.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 23, 2025 visibility 12 link 17 artists, 1 gallery

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Rosemarie Beck, a once-promising abstract painter celebrated in the 1940s and 1950s by the Whitney Museum and mentored by Robert Motherwell, abandoned abstraction in 1958 to pursue figuration. Despite early success and shows at prestigious venues like the Stable Gallery, her shift to mythological and literary themes caused her to fade from art historical memory. A new exhibition, "Rosemarie Beck: Earthly Paradise," at Van Doren Waxter in New York, showcases over 25 figurative works from 1959 to 2000, marking a major reappraisal of her career.

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article culture schedule Apr 30, 2025 visibility 16 link 28 artists, 3 galleries

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Artist Harry Gould Harvey IV and others are reclaiming the frame as an integral part of the artwork, using found wood and elaborate designs to embed narrative, memory, and place. Harvey, represented by P.P.O.W., began making frames from a fallen black walnut tree, while artists like Jenna Rothstein create ceramic frames with spiky thorns. The New Museum Los Gatos recently honored Holly Lane, a pioneer who milled Renaissance-style frames in the 1980s, challenging the minimalist norm.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 23, 2025 visibility 14 link 27 artists, 8 galleries

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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will host "KAWS: Family," the first West Coast museum solo exhibition for the artist KAWS (Brian Donnelly). The traveling show, organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, is currently on view at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and will bring KAWS's signature cartoon-like characters—including Companion, BFF, and Chum—to the Bay Area.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 1, 2026 source 3 sources visibility 27 link 39 artists, 7 galleries

15 Art Shows to See in NYC This May

Hyperallergic's May 2025 guide to New York City art shows highlights 15 exhibitions, including a survey of Hawaiian Japanese-American artists from the Metcalf Chateau group at Ryan Lee Gallery, a retrospective of Malian photographer Seydou Keïta at the Brooklyn Museum, and Renée Green's multimedia project 'Secret' at Bortolami Gallery. The article also features Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's quietude-focused works, a meditation on grief and death, and a document of a city devastated by the AIDS crisis through portraits of inanimate objects, among other shows.

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person people schedule Mar 12, 2026 source 3 sources visibility 30 link 3 artists, 3 galleries

Art Movements: Look Who’s Headed to Perrotin Gallery

The French mega-gallery Perrotin has added sculptor Alma Allen to its roster. Allen previously caused controversy by accepting a nomination to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale under the Trump administration's State Department, a decision that led his former galleries to drop him. The article also notes other industry news, including Keisha Scarville winning the Brooklyn Museum's UOVO Prize and Marina Abramović creating an inflatable installation for New York's Balloon Museum.

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