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Wet Paint: NFT Collective Whines Over Cryptopunks Sale, Coveted Young Artist Joins Hauser & Wirth, & More Art-World Gossip Which art dealer is sitting courtside at Knicks playoff games? What famed artist-made house hit the market? Read on for answers. Nine CryptoPunks at Christie s 21st-century evening sale on May 13, 2021. Courtesy of Christie s. Every week, Artnet News Pro brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops reported and written by Nate Freeman. If you have a tip, email Nate at [email protected]
Love them or hate them and believe you me, people do hate them! NFTs have done one thing that unites disparate parts of the art market: make people rich. Sources said ....
Wet Paint: Julian Schnabel Is Having a Baby at 70, Market Goes Gaga for Long-Dead Surrealist, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip What rock star has a secret stash of George Condo paintings? What unlikely U.S. city is being scouted by a mega-gallery? Read on for answers. May 21, 2021 Julian Schnabel at the LongHouse Reserve Summer benefit in East Hampton, New York. (Photo by Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images) Every week, Artnet News Pro brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops reported and written by Nate Freeman. If you have a tip, email Nate at [email protected]
The Hollywood Roosevelt. Photo courtesy Hollywood Roosevelt. Every week, Artnet News brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops reported and written by Nate Freeman. If you have a tip, email Nate at [email protected]
Last week, Wet Paint detailed the demise of Frieze Los Angeles, undone by permitting issues that restrict retail entities from operating out of residential houses. Not allowed, alas. And so, instead of an ambitious edition of an art fair staged in a series of Modernist houses, we’ll have to wait until the fair takes over the Beverly Hilton-adjacent grounds in February 2022. The David Hockney pool at the Roosevelt. Photo courtesy Hollywood Roosevelt. ....
Frieze Los Angeles at Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood. Photograph by Casey Kelbaugh. Every week, Artnet News brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops reported and written by Nate Freeman. If you have a tip, email Nate at [email protected]
After a year in which fairs got cancelled across the country, Frieze looks like the lone survivor. Come May, the fair company owned by Hollywood behemoth Shed, the fancy glass box at Hudson Yards with a terrifyingly expensive retractable door thing. Rules for entry are super strict vaccine passport or PCR test required for entry but for those who get in, the highlights are voluminous, as the big galleries are not holding back. ....
Wet Paint: MoMA Director on Defensive Amid Toxic Leon Black Fallout, Ridgewood Gallerist Takes Manhattan, & More Art-World Gossip What gallerist-actress couple was dining at a hip NoHo spot? What a-lister jetted to Brussels for a museum show? Read on for answers. Glenn Lowry, director of MoMA. (Photo by John Lamparski/WireImage) Every week, Artnet News brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops reported and written by Nate Freeman. If you have a tip, email Nate at [email protected]
Museum of Modern Art reached a fever pitch, and since then, the museum’s leadership has struggled to handle the situation. At first, the board dragged its feet on whether to let Black retain his grip on the chairmanship or leave amid scandal. (In case you missed it, the scandal is that Black, the billionaire financier, gave hundreds of millions of dollars to sex offender ....