November 2015 – ARTDEALS

Morning Links: #hierteekenen Edition

November 28, 2015

Rijksmuseum. COURTESY THE RIJKSMUSEUM The Rijksmuseum is requesting that visitors stop taking pictures and instead start drawing the art with the hashtag #hierteekenen (#startdrawing). [Hyperallergic] The Tehran Museum of Contemporary art will host a solo show for Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. [Artforum]Beatriz Milhazes at James Cohan Gallery in New York. [Contemporary Art Daily]Art Basel Miami

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Frieze Names Raphael Gygax Curator of 2016 Frieze Projects

November 28, 2015

Raphael Gygax. COURTESY BERLINER FESTSPIELE Frieze announced today that it has tapped Raphael Gygax to be the new curator of Frieze Projects. Gygax, who is curator at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, will choose artists to create new works for the 2016 Frieze Projects, which will appear at the London fair in October. Frieze Projects, founded in 2003

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Here’s the Exhibitor List for Mexico City’s 2016 Material Art Fair, Which Has Grown by 50 Percent for Its Third Edition

November 28, 2015

The 2015 Material Art Fair at the Auditorio Blackberry in Mexico City. COURTESY MATERIAL ART FAIR The ambitions of Mexico City’s Material Art Fair are quickly growing. In its first two editions, which were held in 2014 and earlier this year, Material, which focuses on emerging galleries and runs concurrently with the well-established Zona Maco

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New Complaint Filed Against Nahmads Over Modigliani Portrait

November 28, 2015

Modigliani’s Seated Man With a Cane, 1918. The estate of a Paris dealer has sued the Nahmad Gallery in New York once again over a Amedeo Modigliani portrait, alleging that it had been seized by the Nazis and is now owned by the Nahmads. The painting, Seated Man With a Cane, is currently stored in a Geneva

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‘Zineb Sedira: Present Tense’ at Taymour Grahne Gallery

November 28, 2015

Zineb Sedira, The Lovers, 2008, C-print, 47.24 x 39.4 in. © ZINEB SEDIRA, COURTESY THE ARTIST, KAMEL MENNOUR, PARIS AND TAYMOUR GRAHNE GALLERY, NEW YORK Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Zineb Sedira: Present Tense” is on view at Taymour Grahne Gallery in New York through January 16, 2016. The

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Heimo Zobernig Awarded the 2016 Roswitha Haftmann Prize

November 28, 2015

Zobernig. COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS The board of the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation has named Austrianartist Heimo Zobernig the winner of the 2016 Roswitha Haftmann Prize “in recognition of his sustained and diverse production and compelling body of work,” according to a press release. The prize, known as Europe’s best-endowed award, gives a selected artist 150,000 Swiss Francs (about

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Feuer and Mesler Double Down on Grand Street, Closing Orchard Street Gallery

November 28, 2015

319 Grand Street. GOOGLE MAPS Last March, dealers Joel Mesler and Zach Feuer partnered up to create the bipartite Lower East Side gallery operation Feuer/Mesler and Mesler/Feuer: one space at 30 Orchard Street, where Mesler previously ran a gallery called Untitled, and one space at 319 Grand Street. But rising rent costs on a rapidly

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First Lady: Channeling Jackie Kennedy, Karen Finley Inaugurates Broad Museum’s Performance Program

November 28, 2015

Karen Finley as Jackie O. MAX RUBY/BROAD MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES Karen Finley wore a black wig and a black jacket over slightly flared white pants when she took the stage at the Broad Museum in Downtown Los Angeles this weekend. She also wore big orange-rimmed sunglasses, a key part of her Jackie O. costume. “I

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Morning Links: Texte zur Kunst Edition

November 28, 2015

The 100th issue of Texte zur Kunst. TEXTE ZUR KUNSTE Deborah Solomon profiles Sheena Wagstaff, the chairwoman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s department of modern and contemporary art. “No one has done a profile of me ever,” Wagstaff said. [The New York Times] Clara Kim and Nancy Ireson head to Tate Modern. Kim comes

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Spy vs. Spy: Tech-Savvy Swiss Duo Bitnik Refines the Art of Espionage

November 28, 2015

Installation view of Opera Calling at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, 2007. COURTESY !MEDIENGRUPPE BITNIK ‘I’ve hijacked your surveillance camera. How about a game of chess?” The words filled a closed-circuit television screen that only seconds before had shown commuters in London’s Charing Cross station. Whichever security guard read the message soon saw it replaced by

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