The Selling of Jeff Koons
He made banality blue chip, pornography avant-garde, and tchotchkes into trophy art. How Jeff Koons, with the support of a small circle of dealers and collectors, masterminded his fame and fortune....
View ArticleTop Ten ARTnews Stories: How Jeff Koons Became a Superstar
Kelly Devine Thomas tracked the way an artist shaped his own career. Read More
View ArticleTen Creative, Disorienting, Enlightening, and Sometimes Frightening...
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, Marisol, Lygia Clark, and Lee Bontecou are among the subjects of major books this season Read More
View ArticleQatar May Have Purchased Warhol’s ‘Eight Elvises’
A few days ago the video for the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies’ impressively stacked Andy Warhol panel—moderated by Bob Colacello Peter Brant, Donna De Salvo, Larry Gagosian, Jane...
View ArticleLarry Gagosian Will Soon Open a Japanese Restaurant
The Wall Street Journal reports that Larry Gagosian will open a Japanese restaurant, Kappo Masa, with the famed sushi chef Masa Takayama in the basement of his Madison Avenue space later this month.The...
View ArticleNew Independent Projects Fair Offers ‘One Holistic Exhibition’ From 40 Galleries
The art fair brings together 40 galleries to coincide with the November auction season Read More
View ArticleChristie’s Contemporary Art Sale Nets $852.9 M., All-Time Auction Record
Records fall for Twombly, Ruscha, Doig, Kippenberger, Sturtevant, Price, and more Read More
View ArticleArt Goes Off the Record and Off the Rails at the W
Women in one-piece bathing suits and illuminated lampshades welcomed visitors to the Dom Pérignon-sponsored after-party for Aby Rosen’s dinner at Wall, the club in the W South Beach, last night, which,...
View ArticleSteve Cuozzo Dislikes ‘F-word Blaring Jocks’ at Kappo Masa
If you missed it last week (as we all probably did, being down in Miami): the New York Post’s real-estate columnist and restaurant critic Steve Cuozzo wrote that he found Larry Gagosian and Masayoshi...
View ArticleBreaking: Gagosian Wears Sneakers To Cannes Premiere
Big news today from France: Page Six reports that the art dealer Larry Gagosian was momentarily turned away from the Cannes premiere of Rooney Mara’s film “Carol.” The reason? He was wearing a pair of...
View ArticleMorning Links: Larry Gagosian’s Carriage House Edition
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View ArticleMorning Links: ‘Homeland’ Graffiti Edition
Must-read stories from around the art world Read More
View ArticleGagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills Will Give Bret Easton Ellis and Alex Israel...
We now know the reason for Bret Easton Ellis’s high-profile presence with Alex Israel at Art Basel Miami Beach this year. It’s been revealed that the Gagosian Gallery’s Beverly Hills outpost will...
View ArticleWith ‘Gallery Tally Project,’ Micol Hebron Examines Gender Inequality in the...
Last month, the artist Micol Hebron played an April Fools’ joke on her Facebook followers. She posted that Larry Gagosian, bluest of the blue-chip dealers, had emailed her to admit he had a “woman...
View ArticleLegal Dispute over Picasso Sculpture Settled, with Leon Black Named as the...
The New York Times reported today that Leon Black, the billionaire art collector, will now own the Pablo Picasso sculpture Bust of a Woman (1931) that has been at the center of a months-long legal...
View ArticleClean, Well-Lighted Places: On Our Nostalgia for the Golden Age of Art Dealing
The notion that collectors sit atop the hierarchy of today’s art world is axiomatic. They build private museums and control the boards of traditional ones. Through their acquisitions, they determine...
View ArticleLarry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch Team Up Again in Miami for Erotic ‘Desire’...
Last year during Art Basel Miami Beach, Larry Gagosian teamed up with a somewhat surprising collaborator for a show, someone who has been his competitor since the two men met on West Broadway in SoHo...
View Article‘My Philosophy in Presenting an Exhibition Is You Don’t Hold Back, You Gotta...
It was two hours before the Tuesday night opening of “Desire”—a show of erotic works curated by Diana Widmaier-Picasso and presented by Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch—but the gawkers were already...
View ArticleLarry Gagosian: Gagosian Gallery, and Personal Collection, to Live On
"I'm not retiring," the dealer said. Read More The post Larry Gagosian: Gagosian Gallery, and Personal Collection, to Live On appeared first on ARTnews.
View Article‘You Get Jaded with These Numbers’: Larry Gagosian, Edward Dolman Talk...
The two joined Wall Street Journal reporter Kelly Crow at the publication's "Future of Everything" festival. Read More The post ‘You Get Jaded with These Numbers’: Larry Gagosian, Edward Dolman Talk...
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