Basel Fair Names Exhibitors for 2018 Edition -ARTnews
Liste’s palatial home. LISTE Ah, Liste. In some ways, the enterprise based in Basel, Switzerland, is the most pleasurable of all the world’s art fairs, with formidable sausages on offer…
Lévy Gorvy Appoints Christie’s Chairman Andreas Rumbler as Partner of New Zürich Office -ARTnews
Andreas Rumbler. PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER HAUSER Dominique Lévy and Brett Gorvy announced today that Andreas Rumbler, chairman of Christie’s Switzerland, will join Lévy Gorvy as a partner in November, to…
Kurt Kauper, Master of the Nude Hockey Player, Paints the Female Figure -ARTnews
Installation view of “Kurt Kauper: Women,” 2018, at Almine Rech Gallery, New York. MATT KROENING/©KURT KAUPER/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ALMINE RECH GALLERY As Architectural Digest reminded its readers in November,…
Morning Links: Alberto Giacometti Edition -ARTnews
Alberto Giacometti and photographer Erhard Wehrmann. COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Exhibitions The “City and Cosmos: the Arts of Teotihuacan” exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art features over 200…
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s VR Piece About Traversing the U.S.-Mexico Border Comes to Washington, D.C. -ARTnews
The former home of the Trinidad Baptist Church, which is hosting Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Carne y Arena (Virtually present, Physically invisible), 2017. GREG ALLEN In the slowly gentrifying northeast Washington,…
Briscoe Center Acquires Archive of Stephen Shames, Black Panther Party Photographer -ARTnews
Stephen Shames, Panthers on Parade, 1968. COURTESY DOLPH BRISCOE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, has added to its collection…
Genevieve Gaignard at Praz-Delavallade, Paris -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Genevieve Gaignard, Gotta Go, 2016, chromogenic print. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND PRAZ-DELAVALLADE Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s…
Crozier Art Storage and Logistics Company Acquires Artex Fine Arts -ARTnews
A crate. COURTESY CROZIER FINE ARTS Crozier Fine Arts, the New York-based art storage and logistics operation, has acquired Artex Fine Arts Services, whose holdings include 160,000 square feet of…
Here’s the Artist List for the First Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art -ARTnews
Beautiful Riga, Latvia. KSENIJA VINOGRADOVA/WIKIMEDIA The first Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Latvia is titled ”Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More,” which happens to be the…
Joan Jonas’s First Site-Specific Installation, in 1977 -ARTnews
Joan Jonas, The Juniper Tree, 1976/94, 24 works on silk, acrylic paint, wooden structure, string of 29 wooden balls, ladder, kimono, mirror, glass jars, 78 slides, box and other materials.…