Remember back in January how Larry Gagosian’s mansion on East 75th Street was little more than a giant dirt pit concealed behind an ornate façade? Well, things have apparently been moving along swiftly at the site of the mega-dealer’s new pad, and yesterday its rooftop swimming pool was lifted into place by a giant crane, Curbed reports. (more…)
Larry Gagosian is organizing a week-long show in May for the 44 Pratt students who lost their work when the school’s historic Main Building was ravaged by fire in February, The New York Times reports. Gagosian has drummed up a fittingly strong team. Because his own galleries are booked, his pal Aby Rosen will provide nearly 26,000 square feet of space on the Seagram Building’s eighth floor for the show, which will include mostly new work by the art students, along with some older work and maybe some that were rescued from the fire. Eugenie Tsai, a contemporary art curator at the Brooklyn Museum, has been tapped to make the final selections and Bruce Newman, a Pratt trustee, has donated $50,000 for framing and installation. (more…)
Megadealer Larry Gagosian and longtime collector Jan Cowles have settled their dispute over Roy Lichtenstein’s 1964 enamel-on-metal work “Girl in Mirror.” Wall Street Journal reporter Kelly Crow broke the news on her Twitter feed earlier today, though she has yet to file a story. As ARTINFO reported back in November, the lawsuit revolved around Gagosian’s business practices, and accused the dealer of “conversion, replevin, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and unjust enrichment.”
Larry Gagosian’s power might be waning (maybe), but the mystery surrounding the infamously press-shy dealer is as appealing as ever — particularly as he fights numerous of legal battles and faces almost a full stable of defecting artists. Eric Konigsburg published a lengthy, in-depth look into the life and career of the art world’s most dominant dealer in New York Magazine this weekend, which will appear in the January 28 print issue. (more…)
Larry Gagosian ended his half of the legal duel with Ron Perelman when he dropped his lawsuit against his former friend and client in October. Now, he’s filed a motion to dismiss Perelman’s case against him in the State Supreme Court on Friday, calling the lawsuit “frivolous,” the New York Times reports.
Judging by its façade, 4 East 75th Street, the landmarked limestone house owned by mega-dealer Larry Gagosian, looks like your typical Upper East Side mansion. Except that’s all there is: a façade. Gagosian purchased the property for $36.5-million in August 2011, Curbed reports, after its previous owner, J. Christopher Flowers, bought it for $53-million in 2006 and began $4-million of demolition work. (more…)
In last month’s issue of Interview magazine, megadealer Larry Gagosian gives a rare interview to collector Peter M. Brant, who also happens to be the magazine’s publisher. It’s full of fun facts to know and tell. Larry Gagosian was once Michael Ovitz’s secretary; Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth was his framer when he lived in Los Angeles. There are also a few newsy bits: Gagosian’s forthcoming restaurant at 980 Madison will include a small gallery on the second floor devoted to exhibiting the work of younger artists. (Bill Acquavella, the patriarch of nearby Acquavella Galleries, has already reserved his own permanent table in the downstairs dining room.) (more…)
Much has been written this week about Larry Gagosian’s deposition, given last month as part of ongoing negotiations in a lawsuit between the megadealer and collector Jan Cowles. The case revolves around Roy Lichtenstein’s “Girl in Mirror,” which was consigned to Gagosian by Cowles’s son, Charles, without her knowledge or consent. We’ve got a rundown of the case’s wider implications here. But if you’re simply curious about what kind of interesting things Larry Gagosian says under oath, we’ve gathered a few choice quotes for you.
This morning, for the first time since ArtReview began publishing its Power 100 list of art world movers and shakers more than a decade ago, its top spot was occupied by a woman: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, who curated this year’s attendance record-setting Documenta 13 exhibition — which Modern Painters’s Steven Henry Madoff deemed “the most important exhibition to date of the 21st century” — spanning three continents. (more…)
In a gossip item yesterday that was very short on both gossip and basic information, the New York Post reported that global gallery mogul Larry Gagosian is planning to open a restaurant in the ground floor of 980 Madison Avenue, the building housing Gagosian’s Upper East Side location. The mysterious restaurant, to be managed by nearby eatery Sant Ambroeus — which one Yelper calls “a dining room away from home for many UES people” — doesn’t have a name yet, so we at ARTINFO have taken it upon ourselves to give Gogo these 10 suggestions accompanied by general menu guidelines. (more…)
