Sperone Westwater Takes Developer of Neighboring Condos-and-Hotel Tower to Court
After coming out in opposition of a project for a mixed-use, 25-story hotel and condominium building development that would block its easterly view (pictured) in October of last year, Lower East Side...
View ArticleCollectors’ Dallas Home Listed For $2.7 Million
Cindy and Howard Rachofsky have a very famous home in Dallas, a 10,000-square-foot Richard Meier-designed mansion that houses the couple’s massive collection of Arte Povera, modern, and contemporary...
View ArticleCheck Out Will Ferrell’s Art-Filled Loft in the West Village
Last we heard from comedian and satirical anchorman Will Ferrell, he and his wife Viveca Paulin-Ferrell had helped purchase a pair of Omer Fast videos for LACMA, but the March issue of Architectural...
View ArticleEmbattled Berry-Hill Galleries Lists Upper East Side Building For $25 Million
Facing a barrage of lawsuits and $26 million in debt, Berry-Hill Galleries is trying to sell its turn-of-the-century building at 11 East 70th Street for just under $25 million, reports the real-estate...
View Article19th Street Galleries Getting Another Condo Tower for a Neighbor
The block of West 19th Street that is home to David Zwirner, Chambers Fine Art, Lombard-Freid, the Kitchen, and a slew of other galleries — in addition to dueling glassy structures by starchitects...
View ArticleProtests Stall Destruction of Berlin Wall’s Longest, Mural-Covered Section
Over 400 demonstrators gathered at a former stretch of the Berlin wall on Friday morning to protest the government tearing it down to make way for luxury apartments. That demolition work has halted,...
View ArticleMysterious Sculpture Uncovered at Condo Construction Site in Brooklyn
While excavating a site in the shadows of the Brooklyn Bridge, construction workers prepping a lot for a new luxury housing tower in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood happened upon a mysterious sculpture...
View ArticleLorna Simpson Puts Brooklyn Home on the Market for $3 Million
Are artists fleeing Fort Greene? Well, that may be an exaggeration, but following recent news that David Salle was selling his $10 million mansion in the picturesque Brooklyn nabe, The Real Deal...
View ArticleFor the Collector Who Has Everything: Warhol’s Home and Studio on the Market...
An Andy Warhol flower painting recently sold for $5.8 million at auction, but for the same price a collector could have snapped up a much rarer piece of the Pop artist’s legacy: The townhouse at 1342...
View ArticleBoom: Cai Guo-Qiang Drops $6 Million on Soho Penthouse With Mind-Blowing Bathtub
The art world real estate market is in full bloom. After the homes of Andy Warhol and Lorna Simpson hit the market earlier this spring, conceptual pyromaniac Cai Guo-Qiang has plunked down $5.95...
View ArticleGet Ready for Pool Parties on Larry Gagosian’s Upper East Side Roof! (PS....
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...
View ArticleBeloved Graffiti Building 5Pointz May Live on After Demolition, Sort of,...
Plans for the lot in Long Island City currently occupied by New York’s foremost street art space, 5Pointz, are coming into focus — last summer its longtime owner announced that the outdoor graffiti...
View ArticleInside the Minimalist Chicago Pad of Contemporary Art Daily Founder Forrest Nash
Forrest Nash, the 25-year-old founder of the beloved blog Contemporary Art Daily, started the site during his days as a student at the Art Institute of Chicago, and now racks up 1.25 million page...
View ArticleSleep in Donald Judd’s Flavin-Lit Loft, Now Available on Airbnb for $2,000 a...
The Judd Foundation appears to be bucking authority by potentially violating New York’s short-term rental laws, and putting Donald Judd’s spectacularly renovated former Soho home and studio on Airbnb...
View ArticleMatthew Marks and Jack Bankowsky Are Selling Their West Village Townhouse
Bi-coastal art dealer Matthew Marks and his partner, the curator and former Artforum editor-in-chief Jack Bankowsky, are selling their sprawling 5,062 square foot townhouse at the corner of Greenwich...
View ArticleSotheby’s May Trade Upper East Side Digs for West Side Pad
Will Sotheby’s find a new home on the West Side? According to the New York Post, the auction house is being wooed by real estate megadeveloper Related, which is looking to buy their Upper East Side...
View ArticleJean-Michel Basquiat’s Soho Loft Is on AirBnB for $650 per Night
The sprawling loft on Crosby Street in Soho that Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked in at the height of his career is allegedly the space being advertised in this AirBnB listing. You’ll notice,...
View ArticleThe Most Expensive Picasso on the Market: His Villa in the South of France,...
Pablo Picasso’s former home in the French village Mougins just north of Cannes, the Mas de Notre-Dame du Vie, has recently been put back on the market for a staggering $220 million after major...
View ArticleNew “Affordable” Artist Studios Planned for Red Hook
Affordable studio space for artists in New York seems to be a topic on everyone’s mind these days. It was most recently under discussion in Brooklyn with the Mobilizing Bushwick initiative spearheaded...
View ArticleWould You Like Some Curation With That? NYC Condo Offers...
In the latest chapter of the ongoing denigration of curatorial practice and its debasement into any activity that involves doing something to a large group of somethings, meet The Schumacher, a...
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