Track Changes: EL VY, Soramimi, Martin Courtney, and More
“Track Changes” is a weekly column here at ARTINFO that acts as a notepad for the staff to jot down what they’re listening to that’s new and exciting. This week, Craig Hubert and Scott Indrisek pick...
View ArticleAlexandre Gallery Is Moving
This summer Alexandre Gallery is closing its space in the Fuller Building and moving to 724 Fifth Avenue (between 56th and 57th Streets). The 5,500-square-foot space formerly occupied by Maxwell...
View ArticleTwo Trees Grants Artists Subsidized Space in DUMBO
With seven new major residential developments and a new Second Avenue subway stop in the works, the quiet neighborhood of DUMBO is bracing for a major culture shift. Meanwhile, the management company...
View ArticleKoons Balloon Bunny Hops Up in Manhattan
Jeff Koons, one of the most famous artists to come out of the East Village gallery scene, is back on his old stomping grounds, sort of. His sculpture “Balloon Rabbit (Red)” (2005-2010) has taken over...
View ArticleGian Enzo Sperone Sells $10M NYC Pad
Art dealer Gian Enzo Sperone, of Bowery mega-gallery Sperone Westwater, has just sold his likewise enormous West Village lair at 43 Clarkson Street for a hefty $10.3 million, just shy of the $10.9...
View ArticleTracey Emin Is Moving To New York
Though she has long been based in London, Tracey Emin revealed during a book-signing in Miami last week — where she was celebrating the opening of her first U.S. museum show, “Angel Without You” at...
View ArticlePeek Inside Cindy Sherman’s Surprisingly Cheery Hamptons Farmhouse
For an artist known for creating images that haunt your mind like memories of your worst nightmares, Cindy Sherman has an unusually bright and cheery East Hampton farmhouse. Though Sherman now has the...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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