LONDON (REUTERS).- U.S. collector and gallery owner Larry Gagosian has been named the art world’s most powerful figure in the annual ArtReview ranking, dominated this year by established commercial galleries. Gagosian has nine galleries around the worl…
Art World Acts to Save Energy and Money, Mayor Launches Green Visual Arts Guide at Frieze Art Fair
LONDON.- The Mayor of London Boris Johnson was at the prestigious Frieze Art Fair this morning to launch his Green Visual Arts Guide, aimed at helping artists, galleries and arts fairs to become greener and save cash. The Mayor has set a target for Lon…
U.S. Collector and Gallery Owner Larry Gagosian Tops 2010 Art Review Power List
LONDON (REUTERS).- U.S. collector and gallery owner Larry Gagosian has been named the art world’s most powerful figure in the annual ArtReview ranking, dominated this year by established commercial galleries. Gagosian has nine galleries around the worl…
New Book Says Painting Stored Behind a Couch for 25 Years may Be a Michelangelo
TONAWANDA (AP).- Could a painting of Mary holding the body of Jesus that hung for years in an upstate New York family’s home really be a 16th century Michelangelo? An Italian art historian thinks so after undertaking years of research, which he docume…
Jan Krugier Gallery in New York will Transfer Its Operations to Geneva
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jan Krugier Gallery will close its offices in New York and transfer its operations to Galerie Krugier & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland. The closing will occur at the end of the year. Tzila Krugier explains, “I have decided to center the Kr…
Laurie Anderson Says Museums Losing Cachet to Web
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Laurie Anderson sees a new online trend in the art world that has galleries and museums in a tailspin: the power of the Web to distribute art. The performance artist and voice of America’s cultural fringe says websites such as YouT…
Laurie Anderson Says Museums Losing Cachet to Web
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Laurie Anderson sees a new online trend in the art world that has galleries and museums in a tailspin: the power of the Web to distribute art. The performance artist and voice of America’s cultural fringe says websites such as YouT…
Peru Collective Connects Young Artists with Buyers
LIMA (REUTERS).- A three-day fair at an upscale hotel is showcasing the work of contemporary Peruvian artists to a growing legion of middle class art collectors and enthusiasts with money to spend. Desenfranquiciados Colectivo, curators of Peru’s yout…
Former Director of the Nelson-Atkins Ted Coe has Died
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Ralph T. Coe, the third Director of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and one of the nation’s foremost authorities on American Indian art, died Tuesday in Santa Fe, N.M. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of Ted Coe,”…
Artists Explore Otherworldly Depths of the Imagination in New Exhibition
DETROIT, MI.- Hold onto your mind as the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) presents some of the eeriest images portrayed in prints over the last 500 years. In Your Dreams: 500 Years of Imaginary Prints features more than 135 European and American prints …