Christie’s Contemporary Art Sale Totals $72.8 M., What Happens When Artists and Galleries Split, and More: Morning Links from February 13, 2020
Here's what we're reading this morning.
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Stefan Simchowitz
Stefan Simchowitz Will Open Space in Los Angeles in Former Newsstand
The space opens with an exhibit, Astral Oracles by Los Angeles-based artist Lazaros.
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‘If Another Person Asks Me to Get Them a Jen Guidi I Think I Might Just Vomit in My Bed’: The Next Must-Have Market Darling Has Emerged
A look at the quick rise of a Los Angeles artist.
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How to Fix the Art World, Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of ‘How to Fix the Art World.’ If you are just now tuning in, here’s a link to Part 1, and here’s a little background: Back in August my staff and I embarked on an epic…
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Everybody Loves the Sunshine: But Can L.A. Sustain Its Booming Art Scene?
‘Art is a revelation. It’s like an oracle,” said Juliet McIver, an art collector and consultant who currently has two Mary Corse paintings hanging in her Los Angeles home. They’re made with…
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‘Can You Make Me 100 More?’: Stefan Simchowitz Skypes Into the Bruce High Quality Foundation’s Fake Art Competition
On Friday evening—a few hours after a woman at Art Basel Miami Beach was stabbed multiple times in the neck with an X-Acto knife while walking by the booths, which prompted passersby to dismiss th…
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Jute Sack Artworks Are at the Center of Simchowitz Lawsuit Against Venice Biennale Artist
Los Angeles dealer and artist agent Stefan Simchowitz and Dublin dealer Jonathan Ellis King have filed suit against the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, alleging that he breached a contract…
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What Is ‘Simco’s Club,’ Stefan Simchowitz’s New Website?
Stefan Simchowitz, the art collector otherwise known by such epithets as “the art world’s patron satan,” “Sith Lord,” and “one of twelve producers on Requiem for a Dream,” has launched his own <a href="http://www.simcosclub.com/pages/about" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"…
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Portugal Looks Downtown
What exactly do we call Portugal Arte, the month-long show of contemporary art in and around Lisbon that opened this past weekend? It's casually being described as a biennial, although there's neither…
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Rolling Stone
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