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Veteran dealers Janelle Reiring and Helene Winer have announced that New York's beloved Metro Pictures gallery will close at the end of 2021.
Reiring reflects on how her role as a dealer changed over 40 years. March 8, 2021 Janelle Reiring and Helene Weiner, the founder of Metro Pictures, in 2009. Photo by Patrick McMullan via Getty Images. Many art-world players were surprised to receive a candid email from legendary contemporary art gallery Metro Pictures—on a Sunday afternoon, no less—announcing the founders’ decision to close after 40 years at the end of 2021. The platform, co-founded by Janelle Reiring and Helene Winer, launched the careers of famous Pictures Generation artists including Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, Sh...
UPDATE: on 9 March, two days after the closure of Metro Pictures was announced, Hauser & Wirth announced that it will now represent Cindy Sherman Installation view of Isaac Julien, Lessons of the Hour–Frederick Douglass (2019) at Metro Pictures, New York Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York Metro Pictures, the New York gallery indivisible with the Pictures Movement of the 1980s, has shocked the art world by announcing it will soon close. In an email, founders Helene Winer and Janelle Reiring announced on Sunday 7 March that they would close Metro Pict...
Lockdown might have separated us from friends and far-away places, but it’s brought many closer to home. Several years ago Mark Kenly Domino Tan took the decision to leave Paris and reroot himself in his native Denmark, having left the country at a young age. He returned with years of work experience, including a stint at Dior, and saw he had “the opportunity to actually stand a bit out in the Danish crowd.” And he does. Bohemian dressing and streetwear have long been Copenhagen’s calling cards. Trained as a tailor, Tan comes at fashion from a different, continental tradition, placing...
The Parrish Art Museum announces Kelly Taxter as next Director Kelly Taxter joined the Jewish Museum in 2013 and was most recently the Barnett and Annalee Newman Curator of Contemporary Art, the Museums first endowed and named contemporary curator position. Photo: Jason Nocito. WATER MILL, NY .-The Parrish Art Museum announced that Kelly Taxter will be the next director of the Museum. The announcement was made by Mary E. Frank, President and Co-Chair of the Board of the prominent art museum, located in the Hamptons, on Eastern Long Island, NY. Taxter will assume her new role on March 22, jo...