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The Art World News Roundup, February 2023
Arun Kakar
News in the art world moves quickly, globally, and relentlessly. Here, in the first of a new monthly series, we run down some of the top stories that you might have missed from across the art world over the past month.
New gallery representation
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- Arghavan Khosravi is now represented by Stems Gallery.
- Brandon Ndife is now represented by Greene Naftali.
- The estates of Carlos Villa and Leo Valledor are now represented by Silverlens.
- Cassi Namoda is now represented by 303 Gallery.
- Divya Mehra and Melanie Schiff are now represented by Night Gallery.
- Florence Peake is now represented by Richard Saltoun.
- Harmony Korine is now represented by Hauser & Wirth.
- Hector Dionicio Mendoza is now represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.
- Jessica Taylor Bellamy is now represented by Anat Egbi.
- Jimmy Robert is now represented by Thomas Dane Gallery.
- The estate of John Wesley is now represented by Pace Gallery.
- Joshua Hagler and Yoora Lee are now represented by Nicodim.
- Julie Buffalohead is now represented by Jessica Silverman.
- Leda Catunda is now represented by Bortolami.
- Loriel Beltrán is now represented by Lehmann Maupin.
- Mariela Scafati is now represented by Travesía Cuatro.
- Pauline d’Andigné is now represented by Ketabi Bourdet.
- Roby Dwi Antono is now represented by Almine Rech.
- Sky Glabush is now represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery.
- TARWUK is now represented by White Cube.
- Yui Yaegashi is now represented by i8 Gallery.
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- El Anatsui was selected as the next Hyundai Commission artist to present a major work at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall later this year.
- Turkish artist Refik Anadol launched a crypto fundraiser to support earthquake relief efforts in Turkey and Syria, which has already helped to raise more than $4.4 million. This month, the artist also opened a new solo show at Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles and contributed digital backdrops for the Grammy Awards. You can read Artsy’s feature on Anadol here.
- British artist Peter Doig has left his gallery Michael Werner after 23 years. The artist also opened a major new exhibition at The Courtauld earlier this month.
- Narsiso Martinez was named winner of the Frieze Impact Prize 2023 at Frieze Los Angeles.
- Ebony G. Patterson received the $50,000 David C. Driskell Prize in African American Art and Art History.
- The Brooklyn Museum awarded Suneil Sanzgiri the fourth annual UOVO Prize.
- Purnima Aktar and Md Fazla Rabbi Fatiq were announced as joint winners of the Samdani Art Award at the Dhaka Art Summit in Bangladesh.
- Artist duo Gilbert and George will open a permanent exhibition space in London to showcase their work on April 1st.
- Kapwani Kiwanga will represent Canada at the 60th Venice Biennale.
- Mexican American artist Jesse Treviño passed away at age 76.
- American multidisciplinary artist Mira Lehr passed away at age 88.
Sale highlights
- Galleries reported strong sales at the fourth edition of Frieze Los Angeles. You can read Artsy’s full report of the fair here.
- Across town at the Roosevelt Hotel, dealers were making similar noise at the fifth edition of Felix Art Fair. You can read Artsy’s full report of the fair here.
- A sale of prints and drawings from the Matisse family collection of prints and drawings by Henri Matisse works sold for $1.3 million at Christie’s.
- A collection from the estate of late Vogue creative director André Leon Talley sold for $3.55 million at Christie’s in New York.
- Phillips’s New York editions sale of contemporary prints and multiples realized $1.4 million in New York.
- A €750,000 Kehinde Wiley led sales at 1-54 Marrakech, which returned to the Moroccan city after a two-year hiatus.
- At Bonhams in Los Angeles, Robert Colescott’s Miss Liberty (1980) sold for $4.5 million to the Art Bridges Foundation.
- Art dealer, collector, investor, and writer Adam Lindemann is selling a selection of 40 works, expected to be valued at more than $22 million, from his personal collection at Christie’s on March 8th. The top lot is Andy Warhol’s Little Electric Chair (1964), which has an estimate of $4 million–$6 million.
- Artsy has two major auctions live now: A Black History Month Impact auction in collaboration with Fairchain that closes on February 28th with artists including Alteronce Gumby, Jewel Ham and Devin B. Johnson. Our February post-war and contemporary sale is also live, with works by Allison Zuckerman, Anna Park, and Caroline Walker. Bidding closes on March 7th.
Everything else
Hirshhorn Director Melissa Chiu welcomes artists Clare Kambhu, Jamaal Barber, Jennifer Warren, Baseera Khan, Misha Kahn, and Frank Buffalo Hyde to the museum’s collection storage during the filming of The Exhibit: Finding The Next Great Artist. Not pictured, artist Jillian Mayer. Photo by Shannon Finney. Courtesy of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
- Bonhams has been valued at $1 billion by its owner, private equity firm Epris, which is reportedly offering the auction house for sale. JP Morgan Chase & Co. has been selected to advise the sale.
- A $42,000 Jeff Koons balloon dog multiple was accidentally knocked down at the VIP opening of the Art Wynwood fair in Miami.
- Lisson Gallery announced that its Los Angeles branch will open in April with a solo show by Carmen Herrera.
- Mendes Wood DM announced a new gallery outpost in Paris, to open in 2023, located at Place des Vosges in the Marais.
- Malin Gallery is opening a new permanent location in Aspen, Colorado, on February 27th.
- In Atlanta, photography gallery Jackson Fine Art is expanding to a new location that will open on March 23rd; and Bill Lowe Gallery is now known as Johnson Lowe Gallery, renamed after its new director Donovan Johnson.
- The Joan Mitchell Foundation accused Louis Vuitton of copyright infringement after the fashion house used the late Abstract Expressionist artist’s works in ads without the foundation’s permission.
- The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced a new reality TV competition produced in partnership with MTV called The Exhibit, which will see seven contemporary artists compete to have their work shown at the museum. The show premieres March 7th at 9 p.m. EST.
- The Centre Pompidou in Paris acquired NFTs by 13 artists including Larva Labs, Jonas Lund, and Rafaël Rozendaal.
- Margot Norton has left the New Museum in New York to become chief curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).
- Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum appointed X Zhu-Nowell (formerly of the Guggenheim) as artistic director and Liu Yingjiu as director.
- Phillips appointed Qing Shen as senior consultant in Mainland China, and former regional director of China, Wenjia Zhang, has been appointed as private sales director, Asian clients, based in Paris.
- Photo London has appointed former VOLTA fair director Kamiar Maleki as its new director.
Arun Kakar
Arun Kakar is Artsy’s Art Market Editor.
