At the top of the Tate Modern’s extension, the Blavatnik Building, is a viewing deck were the museum’s attendees can take in the views of London. The view includes a spate of luxury apartments of the Neo Bankside building that lies directly across from the museum. The building is situated very close to the museum—so much so that the museum’s patrons are able to ...
If you ever wanted to rent a building with art historical significance, Andy Warhol’s former New York studio and apartment, where Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked from 1983 until his death in 1988, has now hit the market. The 57 Great Jones Street property in the Bowery is available for $60,000 per month for a minimum of 10 years. Basquiat rented the second floor space ...
When the Korean-born artist Do Ho Suh first moved to New York City, in 1997, he was lucky to find that a friend happened to be vacating his apartment, leaving an opening for Suh to take over the lease. Though the landlord was initially skeptical about Suh’s ability to pay rent, the artist stayed there for 18 years. When he was finally preparing for ...
Less than a year after it was stolen, a Sigmar Polke painting of flowers in a vase has been found in a private residence in Mainz, Germany. The police in Germany’s Rheinland-Pfalz region, where Mainz is located, said that the work had been taken from a Cologne gallery in November of last year. German police did not name the art space where the work ...
Few museums in the U.S. own paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat, one of the most famous artists of the 1980s. Now, the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas is one of them. The Dallas Museum announced on Tuesday that it had acquired Basquiat’s 1985 painting Sam F, featuring a suit-jacketed man in a wheelchair. It is the first work by Basquiat to enter the institution’s ...
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Friday, March 5. NEED-TO-READ Junior Art Workers Report Poor Treatment by Employers – Many gallery and museum staff in the UK and the US have reported that they have felt pressured to go into workplaces they ...
