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Sotheby's will auction Maurizio Cattelan's 18-karat solid gold toilet, titled "America" (2016), during its marquee New York sales next month. The 100-kilogram work will be installed in a bathroom at the Breuer Building, Sotheby's new headquarters, with public viewing beginning November 8 and the auction on November 18. The starting bid will be set by the work's weight in gold, around $10 million. Separately, the article examines shifting boundaries in artist representation, using Tom Sachs as an example of a fine artist who worked with a PR agency (The Lede Company) for brand collaborations while his gallery Thaddaeus Ropac handled his fine art, raising questions about where a gallery's role ends and an agency's begins.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 11, 2026 visibility 3 link 8 artists, 3 galleries

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Devon Turnbull, also known as OJAS, has a dedicated listening room featuring his custom-built high-fidelity sound system as part of the "Art of Noise" exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. The installation, titled HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3, occupies Andrew Carnegie's former personal library and features scheduled listening sessions with the artist or guests, including notable figures like filmmaker Josh Safdie, musician Laraaji, and artist Tom Sachs.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 24, 2025 visibility 2 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

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Tom Sachs has opened a new exhibition titled “A Good Shelf” at Thaddaeus Ropac’s London gallery during Frieze Week, featuring NASA-emblazoned ceramics inspired by Japanese tea bowls and space travel. The show runs through December 20 and includes hand-formed ceramics displayed on shelves made from rough materials like cinderblock and plywood. This marks Sachs’s return to the spotlight after a 2023 scandal in which former studio staff accused him of creating a toxic workplace, leading Nike to pause its sneaker partnership with the artist; the partnership resumed in September 2024.

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article news schedule Oct 16, 2025 visibility 1 link 2 artists, 4 galleries

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During Frieze London's VIP preview day, guerrilla dealers Jack Chase and James Sundquist parked their U-Haul Gallery truck outside Regent's Park, selling T-shirts and art by Vladimir Umanetz. The duo, known for launching the U-Haul Art Fair during Armory Week in New York, set up a mobile exhibition inside the truck featuring Umanetz's mixed-media work O-14 (LPSVCYDH) (2025–present) and a giant image of Tina Turner. Park attendants eventually forced them to move under threat of police action, but they later relocated outside Thaddaeus Ropac's London gallery during a party for Tom Sachs.

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trending_up market schedule Oct 31, 2025 visibility 1 link 4 artists, 2 galleries

Comment | What the art market doesn’t allow, branded content does for Tom Sachs

Tom Sachs has signed with The Lede Company, a US public relations firm, for agency representation, while Thaddaeus Ropac continues to represent him for gallery and fine art inquiries. This arrangement highlights Sachs's expanding activities beyond the traditional art market, including collaborations with Nike and Levi's, such as a Nike app promoting the Mars Yard 3.0 trainers. The announcement came in August, amidst other art-world movements like Jeff Koons's return to Gagosian from Pace Gallery.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 14, 2025 visibility 2 link 8 artists, 3 galleries

Frieze London diary: a boozy gallery bar, head-turning headlines and talking mice

During Frieze London week, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery hosts a coffee and mezcal bar by artist Tom Sachs alongside his ceramic show "A Good Shelf." At the Minor Attractions satellite fair, performance artist Mark McGowan (aka Artist Taxi Driver) displays subverted Daily Mail headlines. Ryan Gander unveils a new animatronic mouse at Camden Arts Projects that critiques the state of contemporary art. The Gallery of Everything presents "Ectoplasmix," a show of works depicting the supernatural substance, featuring artists like František Jaroslav Pecka, Mathew Weir, and Susan Hiller.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 14, 2025 visibility 4 link 8 artists, 2 galleries

Frieze London diary: a boozy gallery bar, head-turning headlines and talking mice

During Frieze London week, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery hosts Tom Sachs’s "A Good Shelf" exhibition featuring a working coffee and mezcal bar alongside 30 ceramic works inspired by Japanese tea bowls. At the satellite fair Minor Attractions, performance artist Mark McGowan (aka Artist Taxi Driver) displays subverted Daily Mail headlines. Ryan Gander’s solo show at Camden Arts Projects introduces a fourth animatronic mouse that critiques the state of contemporary art. Meanwhile, the Gallery of Everything presents "Ectoplasmix," a show of works depicting ectoplasm, including pieces by František Jaroslav Pecka, Mathew Weir, and Susan Hiller.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 14, 2025 visibility 3 link 8 artists, 2 galleries

Frieze London diary: a boozy gallery bar, head-turning headlines and talking mice

During Frieze London week, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery hosts artist Tom Sachs with a working coffee and mezcal bar alongside his ceramic show "A Good Shelf." Performance artist Mark McGowan, known as Artist Taxi Driver, displays subverted Daily Mail headlines at the Minor Attractions satellite fair in Fitzrovia. Ryan Gander unveils a new animatronic mouse at Camden Arts Projects that critiques the state of contemporary art. The Gallery of Everything presents "Ectoplasmix," featuring works depicting the supernatural substance, with contributions from artists including František Jaroslav Pecka, Mathew Weir, and Susan Hiller.

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