I think Hauser & Wirth are about to go where no gallery has gone before. Congrats to Paul Schimmel. I have a feeling epicness is about to ensue.
Paul Schimmel joins gallery world, creating Hauser Wirth & Schimmel - latimes.com
Interesting thoughts on the evolution of photographing exhibitions in museums. As technology opens up the way in which art is being experienced is rapidly changing. How long before we can “see” through the eyes of museum visitors and experience art outside the boundaries of geophysical location?
An internationally regulated art market is coming very very soon.
“It is hard to imagine a business more custom-made for money laundering, with million-dollar sales conducted in secrecy and with virtually no oversight. What this means in practical terms is that “you can have a transaction where the seller is listed as ‘private collection’ and the buyer is listed as ‘private collection,’ ” said Sharon Cohen Levin, chief of the asset forfeiture unit of the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan. “In any other business, no one would be able to get away with this.”
Art Proves Attractive Refuge for Money Launderers - NYTimes.com
One of my true hero’s, Ray Harryhausen, has passed from this world. His work was an unbelievable influence on my young mind. Sitting on the couch on a weekend afternoon watching the films filled with his pioneering special effects. A world that was not trying to be reality, that became so much more than realistic in its approach to visual storytelling. Reading about him in Fangoria and Famous Monsters of Filmland and wondering at the skill involved in his art. He was a giant in cinema and his like will not soon be found again. RIP Ray.
CARTRAIN is a London graffiti legend. The level of trouble the kid has gotten himself into and out of is well documented in the media. On May 16th CARTRAIN launches his solo show THIS WAY UP at Graffik Gallery. It is one show not to miss!
CARTRAIN : This Way Up PROMO directed by RSH
Thus began the unraveling of the art world and the seemingly invincible art market. The other shoe, as they say, has dropped.
“But on Tuesday, the family’s New York flagship gallery, the Helly Nahmad Gallery, at the opulent Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan, was filled with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducting a raid. An indictment unsealed on Tuesday charged its owner, Hillel Nahmad, 34, with playing a leading role in a far-flung gambling and money-laundering operation that stretched from Kiev and Moscow to Los Angeles and New York. “
Agents Raid Gallery in Carlyle Hotel in Gambling Probe - NYTimes.com
