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Inside Art: Dia Plans to Return to Its Chelsea Roots

After years of scouring Manhattan real estate for a base in New York, a troubled process that was bedeviled by setbacks, the Dia Art Foundation has found a new home on the site of its old home. It is planning to build a space on the footprint of one of ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dan Graham,  Harry B. Helmsley,  Dan Flavin,  Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Donald Judd

Prices Far Surpass Estimates at Sotheby’s Auction

In an Impressionist and modern art sale that had all the right ingredients quality, value and variety Sotheby’s salesroom was teeming on Wednesday night with a United Nations of enthusiastic bidders from Latin America, China, the United States, Russia ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Solomon R. Guggenheim,  Vert (musician),  Simon Shaw

Degas Pastel Is Highlight of a Tepid Christie’s Sale

French and Italian could be heard throughout Christie’s salesroom Tuesday night as the fall auction season began unsteadily: While there were some strong prices, there also expensive failures. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Rockefeller Center, NY,  Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Solomon R. Guggenheim

On the Block: Traditional Offerings, Bargain Prices

The images splashed across the pages of this fall’s auction catalogs are as familiar as they are telling: Degas dancers and Pissarro landscapes; Picasso portraits and Warhol dollar bills. All are well-known paintings and drawings by tried-and-true ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sotheby's,  Merce Cunningham,  Peter M Brant,  Solomon R. Guggenheim,  Jean-Michel Basquiat

Inside Art: Whitney Gets Works By William Eggleston

It was an exhibition filled with bleak images the inside of a freezer stuffed with icy beef pies; the dreary, neon-lighted aisle of a supermarket but the Whitney Museum of American Art show “William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1 ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: William Eggleston,  J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.,  New York University,  Estelle (musician),  Bill Reid

P.S. 1 Appoints Former Curator as Its New Director

In naming only its second director ever, the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center has looked within its own ranks and selected Klaus Biesenbach, a former curator who has remained an adviser, to lead the institution. He succeeds Alanna Heiss, who founded P.S. ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Museum of Modern Art,  Olafur Eliasson

Cunning After Caution at London Art Fair

LONDON Business is booming in at least one remote corner of the Frieze Art Fair here. As Stephanie Syjuco, a San Francisco artist, talked to collectors on Wednesday, she busily wrote out invoices and swiped credit cards, all the while keeping an eye on ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jeff Koons,  Gavin Brown,  Anish Kapoor,  Philip Guston,  Jim Hodges

Inside Art: London Calling a Spate of Artists to Their Openings

LONDON Ed Ruscha was standing in the middle of the Hayward Gallery the other morning literally surrounded by “Fifty Years of Painting,” his retrospective that opened here on Wednesday. “It’s like a pile-up of noises,” he said looking around at work he ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ed Ruscha,  Damien Hirst,  Jack Kerouac,  Lucian Freud,  Francis Bacon

Whitney Advances Plans for Museum Near the High Line

Three years after reaching a tentative agreement with the city, the Whitney Museum of American Art is forging ahead with plans to build a second museum at the entrance to the High Line, the abandoned elevated railway line that has recently been ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Economic Development Corporation,  Renzo Piano

Art: On a Mission to Loosen Up the Louvre

The Louvre is building a new wing, its most radical addition since I. M. Peis 1989 glass pyramid, above. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. The $67 million ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Louvre,  Joseph Kosuth,  Georges Braque,  Toni Morrison,  Bill T. Jones

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