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☆ Artist Jeff Koons makes history with a sculpture on the moon
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Called “Moon Phases,” they show 62 phases of the moon as seen from Earth, 62 phases visible from other viewpoints in space, and one lunar eclipse. Pace Verso, the NFT wing of Pace, is also offering NFTs of each sculpture, while Koons has produced larger, coinciding physical sculptures of his “Moon Phases” to remain on Earth. Koons' "Moon Phases" is visible on the lander's exterior. Intuitive Machines/APThough its arrival marks a milestone, “Moon Phases” is not the only art to touch down on the moon’s surface. But Odie has closed the chapter on a more niche space race — between Koons and the Dubai-based artist Sacha Jafri.

Persons: Odysseus, Jeff Koons, Odie, Koons, Aristotle, David Bowie, Leonardo da Vinci, Gandhi, Billie Holiday, Gabriel García Márquez, Andy Warhol, Virginia Woolf, Koons “, Pace Verso, Paul Van Hoeydonck, It’s, — Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, Forrest Myers, David Novros —, Sacha Jafri, Jafri, ”, Peregrine Organizations: CNN, SpaceX, Peregrine, Pace, Machines, Apollo Locations: American, Houston, Belgian, India, Japan, Dubai

☆ A First Look Inside the Studio of an Art-World Giant
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Sarah Medford | Photography Adrian Gaut For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

THE BOX from abroad was small and nondescript. Inside, bubble-wrapped packets of aluminum foil were twisted into arcs and circles, some sprouting multipronged feet. “The customs agents opened the box and were unwrapping the foils—like, ‘Hey, what’s in here?’ ” says Prudence Fairweather, the recipient of the 2012 shipment. Inside were original models for large-scale sculpture by her late husband, John Chamberlain, who’d shaped each one by hand. They were bound for a retrospective of his work at New York’s Guggenheim Museum.

Persons: ’ ”, Prudence Fairweather, John Chamberlain, who’d, “, ” Organizations: New York’s Guggenheim Museum

☆ The Life Cycle of New York Galleries
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( M.H. Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +10 min

The Life Cycle of New York Galleries What does being the center of the art world do to a neighborhood? BROOME STREET GRAND STREET WOOSTER STREET GREENE STREET MERCER STREET CROSBY STREET HOUSTON STREET CANAL STREET WEST BROADWAY BROADWAY LAFAYETTE STREET PRINCE STREET SPRING STREET opacity=0PRE-1950SIn the early 20th century, the area south of Houston, north of Canal, bounded roughly by West Broadway on one side and Lafayette/Centre Street on the other, was notorious for sweatshops and factory fires. Photo: Bob Adelman1968In 1968, a group called the SoHo Artists Association formed in order to help legalize loft living in manufacturing buildings. The reputations of these dealers helped cement the neighborhood as the center of the New York art world, though SoHo remained, in some ways, sparse. In 1996, the SoHo Grand Hotel opened on West Broadway (the Mercer would open the following year).

Persons: Edward Cavanagh Jr, Robert Moses, Bronx . Walter Albertin, Little Italy —, Jane Jacobs, Fred W, “, Chester Rapkin, Houston —, Allan Tannenbaum, Donald Judd, James Rosenquist, Julie Finch, Frank Stella, John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, Bob Adelman, John Dominis, Paula Cooper, Alan Shields, Judd, Leo Castelli, André Emmerich, Ileana Sonnabend, John Weber, Sam Falk, Sol LeWitt, — Carol Goodden, Tina Girourard, Gordon Matta, Clark —, Sandra Zalman, ” Gordon Matta, Clark’s “ Matta Bones, Clark, Andrew Sarchiapone, Cooper, Moira Hodgson, Pepe Diniz, Peter Gabriel, Mick Jagger, Keith Haring, Tony Shafrazi, Martin Scorsese, — Brooke Alexander, Gruenebaum, Baskerville, Watson, Victoria Munroe, Witkin, ’, Larry Gagosian, Lee B, Ewing, Solomon R, Bill Cunningham, Moss, Mercer, Prada, Michael Moran, OTTO, Bloomingdale’s, Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg, Hauser & Wirth, Marc Payot Organizations: STREET WOOSTER, STREET, STREET CROSBY STREET, WEST BROADWAY BROADWAY LAFAYETTE STREET PRINCE, West Broadway, Cross, Bronx ., of Congress, Interim, Lower, Manhattan, Authority, City Club of New, Houston, Fairweather, James Rosenquist Foundation, ARS, SoHo Artists Association, Student, Broadway, New York Times, New, New York City Landmarks Preservation, Vox Media, New Museum, “, The Times, The New York Times, Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim, Guggenheim SoHo, Voice, Women’s Action Coalition, Boys ’, Hauser &, Wooster, Adidas, Wirth’s, Hauser, Wirth Locations: Soho, Houston, Canal, Lafayette, Manhattan, Bronx, Hell’s, Little Italy, Lower Manhattan Expressway, City Club of New York, New York City, , New York, Vietnam, SoHo, York, , New York City , New York, Wooster, New York, French, Sixth, Prince, West Chelsea

☆ Art Basel draws surge in Asian collectors
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Noele Illien | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] People pose in front of the sculpture "Naughtynightcap" from 2008 by artist John Chamberlain at the Art Unlimited exhibition at the Art Basel art fair in Basel, Switzerland September 21, 2021. Noah Horowitz, who became Chief Executive of Art Basel in November said that an extraordinary amount of people from Asia have travelled to this year's flagship Art Basel fair. China's art market, the third largest in the world, had reported a steep decline in sales in 2022, with lockdowns stalling activity and cancelling art auctions and events, according to the 2023 UBS Global Art Market Report. "The art market compared to the financial market is completely different – it is very opaque, it is not transparent and there are limited sources of data," she said. Art Basel is open to the public until Sunday.

Persons: John Chamberlain, Arnd, Mark Rothko, Noah Horowitz, Joost Bosland, Stevenson, Bosland, Patricia Amberg, Noele Illien, Sandra Maler Organizations: Art, REUTERS, Art Basel, Basel, UBS Global Art, UBS, Thomson Locations: Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ZURICH, Swiss, Asia, South Africa, Netherlands, China

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