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trending_up market schedule Nov 19, 2025 visibility 18 link 12 artists, 2 galleries

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Thaddaeus Ropac, a major European blue-chip gallery, opened its seventh location in Milan in January 2025, occupying a prime palazzo previously home to Massimo de Carlo and Peres Projects. The inaugural exhibition pairs Georg Baselitz and Lucio Fontana in a show titled "L’aurore viene." The move has reignited debate about whether Milan is finally poised to become a contemporary art capital, despite past false starts and the city's stronger identity as a fashion and design hub.

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person people schedule Nov 13, 2025 visibility 15 link 16 artists, 3 galleries

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Mary Boone, the renowned gallerist who closed her eponymous gallery in 2019 after being sentenced to prison for tax evasion, has returned to the New York art scene. She is collaborating on the exhibition "Uptown/Downtown" at Lévy Gorvy Dayan, on view through December 13. The show features works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, and Cindy Sherman, among others, and explores the 1980s New York art world. In an interview, Boone discusses her comeback, the optimism of the 1980s that allowed her to succeed as a woman without family connections, and the current re-examination of that era.

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trending_up market schedule Dec 4, 2025 visibility 19 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

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Lévy Gorvy Dayan sold Andy Warhol's 'Muhammad Ali' (1977) for $18 million during the VIP preview of Art Basel Miami Beach. The painting, autographed by Ali and formerly owned by Richard L. Weisman, was displayed just a few hundred feet from the Miami Beach Convention Center, where Ali defeated Sonny Liston in 1964. The consignment was kept secret until ten days before the fair, and the work drew crowds of buyers and admirers, including Ali's sons and figures connected to Warhol's 'Athletes' series.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 5, 2025 visibility 21 link 25 artists, 11 galleries

This Fall’s Must-See Gallery Shows in New York

The article highlights a curated selection of must-see gallery shows opening in New York City this fall, coinciding with The Armory Show and the overlapping Frieze Seoul fair. Featured exhibitions include Ambera Wellmann's "Darkling" at Hauser & Wirth, Caleb Hahne Quintana's "A Boy That Don't Bleed" at Anat Ebgi, and shows by Sasha Gordon, Dew Kim & Filippo Cegani, Elizabeth Glaessner, Yuan Fang, Bernardo Pacquing, Celeste Rapone, and Omara Mara Oláh, among others. The piece also notes the group exhibition "Downtown/Uptown: New York in the Eighties."

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 25, 2025 visibility 18 link 12 artists, 1 gallery

Warhol, Haring, Basquiat: exhibition remembers pivotal 80s New York artists

Gallery Lévy Gorvy Dayan has opened "Downtown/Uptown: New York in the Eighties," a blockbuster exhibition featuring major works by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Francesco Clemente, and others. Co-curated by Brett Gorvy and legendary dealer Mary Boone, the show aims to present the decade's most pivotal art for new generations, highlighting themes of celebrity, the AIDS epidemic, hyper-capitalism, and sexism through pieces like Warhol's silkscreen portraits, Basquiat's punching bag, Ross Bleckner's "27764," and Guerrilla Girls posters.

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trending_up market schedule Dec 4, 2025 visibility 18 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

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A 1977 Andy Warhol portrait of Muhammad Ali, priced at $18 million, will be the centerpiece of Lévy Gorvy Dayan's booth at Art Basel Miami Beach. The 40-inch acrylic and silkscreen canvas, featuring a royal purple background, was previously purchased for $18.1 million at Christie's in 2021. The work is part of a series of 10 Warhol portraits of sports stars commissioned by collector Richard L. Weisman, and is autographed on the back by Ali.

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trending_up market schedule Apr 18, 2025 visibility 12 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

Basquiat's family portrait painting could bring $30m at Christie's auction

Christie's will offer Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 painting *Baby Boom* as a highlight of its 21st century evening sale this May, with an estimate of $20–30 million. The work, a stylized family portrait believed to depict Basquiat with his parents, was first shown at his landmark Fun Gallery solo exhibition in 1982 and has been featured in major retrospectives at the Brooklyn Museum, Fondation Beyeler, and Fondation Louis Vuitton. Previously owned by collector Peter Brant—who bought it for $1 million in 2001—the painting was later offered at Levy Gorvy's Art Basel stand in 2017 for $30 million.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 20, 2025 visibility 17 link 12 artists, 2 galleries

‘Be really great. No alternative’: what Mary Boone has learned from a half-century in the art world

Mary Boone, the legendary New York art dealer, has returned to the gallery world with a new curatorial project titled 'Downtown/Uptown: New York in the Eighties' at Lévy Gorvy Dayan on the Upper East Side. The exhibition, co-curated with Brett Gorvy, features over 60 works by iconic artists of the 1980s including Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Julian Schnabel, Cindy Sherman, Keith Haring, Richard Prince, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. It marks Boone's first major project in more than five years, following the closure of her namesake gallery and her 2019 tax-evasion conviction, for which she served 13 months in prison.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 26, 2025 visibility 24 link 25 artists, 3 galleries

Mary Boone Stages a Triumphant Return With the Art Titans of 1980s New York

Mary Boone has co-curated "Downtown/Uptown: New York in the Eighties" at Lévy Gorvy Dayan in New York, a sprawling exhibition of over 60 works by artists who defined the 1980s art scene, including Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Cindy Sherman, and Julian Schnabel. The show, running until December 13, 2025, features Warhol's portraits of Boone's former stable of artists and highlights the cross-pollination of Neo-Expressionism, street art, and political critique that made New York the epicenter of the art world.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 13, 2025 visibility 6 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

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Los Angeles-based artist Austyn Weiner presents her latest exhibition, “Half Way Home,” at Lévy Gorvy Dayan in Manhattan, on view through June 21. The show features large-scale floral paintings inspired by her surroundings in Frogtown, the LA River, and personal experiences of marriage and loss. Weiner collected flowers at various stages of life and decay in New York to create a bouquet displayed at the gallery entrance, reflecting her fascination with the life cycle of blooms. The exhibition draws early inspiration from Monet’s “Water Lilies” at the Musée de l’Orangerie, but Weiner’s distorted color fields and emotional depth mark a distinct departure.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 13, 2025 visibility 13 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

In Her Latest Exhibition, Artist Austyn Weiner Processes a Year of Love and Loss Through Flowers

Artist Austyn Weiner presents her latest exhibition "Half Way Through," on view through June 21 at Lévy Gorvy Dayan in Manhattan. The show features floral paintings inspired by her Los Angeles studio environment, the LA River, and her personal experiences of marriage and loss—including the deaths of her father, close friend, and grandmother within months. Weiner collected blooms at various stages of life and decay for the gallery installation, reflecting her fascination with flowers' life cycles.

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