The fourth floor of the Museum of Modern Art has a new resident. James Rosenquist's F-111, a monumental 23-panel piece, is being exhibited for the first time since 2006 in the original 1965 configuration that the artist created for his debut show at Leo Castelli's 77th Street gallery...
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Lunch with the FT: during a New York heatwave, influential dealer William Acquavella reflects on his personal and professional relationship with Lucian Freud and changes in the art world. "I don't go nuts if I don't get everything," he tells Peter Aspden
Continue ReadingNEW YORK— "Artists for Haiti," a charity auction organized by actor Ben Stiller and art dealer David Zwirner
and held at Christie's this evening raised a rousing $13,662,000 to benefit health and education initiatives for
the earthquake-ravaged and desperately poor Caribbean country.
"The Players' Club"
The auction floor is the ultimate shark tank. Meet its most ruthless predators.
Anyone who thinks the art world is dull hasn't visited an auction house's sales room. This is a place where the people with the foresight to sell wield just as much powers as those who can buy; where dealers bid into the millions just to maintain the value of their stock; and where advisers play the field in order to drive up their commissions. We polled dozens of art-world insiders to compile a list of the 10 most powerful people in the auction world today. They're the ones spending the most money, making the most money, and defining the market as we know it.
Lucian Freud, the British realist painter and famed libertine, and his genteel New York dealer, William Acquavella, have a 20-year relationship based on creative support and a little bit of damage control.
Robert und Ethel Scull sammelten Pop-Art, lange bevor sie in die Museen kam. Eine New Yorker Ausstellung zeigt jetzt einen Teil ihrer legendaren Kollektion.
Aus New York berichtet Lisa Zeitz.
A half-century ago, before the phrase "Pop Art" was even coined, a taxi tycoon named
Robert C. Scull started buying up dozens of works by artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol...
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