{"id":43887,"date":"2025-09-26T03:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/43887\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T03:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:52:09","slug":"gagosian-talks-discreet-art-dealing-and-more-art-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/43887\/","title":{"rendered":"Gagosian Talks Discreet Art Dealing and More Art News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\u2018DEALERS ARE MEANT TO BE DISCREET.\u2019 In yesterday\u2019s Breakfast with ARTnews, I noted that Kenny Schachter (in his Artnet News column) claimed the heirless Larry Gagosian<\/a> doesn\u2019t have a succession plan. This, despite the dealer assembling a board of directors to help him think through the future of his business a couple of years ago. Marion Manaker recently sat down with Gagosian at Puck\u2019s Art of Influence<\/a> conference where the audience (who had each forked out $1,500 to be there) heard them ruminate on the health of the art market. \u201cWe\u2019re going through a kind of art recession,\u201d Gagosian, who doesn\u2019t seem to age, said (who needs a succession plan?). \u201cThat\u2019s probably the simplest way to describe it. Prices have come down for a lot of historical works, as well as living artists. And volume has come down. Auction houses are feeling quite a bit of pain. This is a normal cycle; to me, it\u2019s nothing to get terribly alarmed about. It\u2019s more about how you deal with it, because the cycles are unavoidable.\u201d He added that there\u2019s \u201can advantage for a gallery like mine in this kind of auction market, particularly because, notwithstanding the guarantee structure, many collectors are more inclined to sell things privately now, so you\u2019re seeing a lot of very big private sales in the last six months. The problem is, we don\u2019t have the megaphone of the auction house to trumpet our successes, because we\u2019re supposed to be discreet.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tIT\u2019S NOT ALL ABOUT LUXURY. On\u00a0October 1 and 2, Sotheby\u2019s<\/a> will put on a landmark exhibition in Abu Dhabi showing a collection of masterworks collectively valued at $150 million. Featuring Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Frida Kahlo, Edvard Munch, Ren\u00e9 Magritte, and Camille Pissarro, the house said the show marks a major cultural moment for the region. Hosted at the Bassam Freiha Art Foundation, this two-day event will be the first public fine art exhibition ever staged by Sotheby\u2019s in Abu Dhabi, and the most valuable presentation of any kind the auction house has held in the Middle East. Many of the works have impressive provenance; Munch\u2019s landscape comes from the collection of Leonard A. Lauder, a prominent American art collector and philanthropist. Paintings by van Gogh and Gauguin have been sourced from the Chicago home of Cindy and Jay Pritzker, founders of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, awarded to visionaries like Jean Nouvel, architect of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and Frank Gehry, designer of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. A work by Magritte will also be on view, which comes from the collection of Matthew and Kay Bucksbaum.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tNew York-based Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang has sparked controversy with his latest performance, The Ascending Dragon, staged deep in the Tibetan Himalayas. Intended as a tribute to nature, the 52-second spectacle has instead triggered debate over environmental harm and cultural sensitivity. [Ocula<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The curator of an art exhibition on authoritarian regimes at the Bangkok Arts and Cultural Centre<\/a> (BACC) fled Thailand two days after it opened over fears of possible arrest and deportation. [New York Times<\/a>] \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cVisualising the Supernatural\u201d is now on at Kunstmuseum Basel, which charts how ghosts in artworks \u201creflect shifting anxieties about everything from technology to sex.\u201d [Guardian<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Sales at the latest edition of Sydney Contemporary, Australia\u2019s largest contemporary art fair, have tanked for the fourth year in a row. [The Art Newspaper<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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\n\tFIVE TO WATCH. As Artnet News writes, \u201cthe art world is crowded, but some voices rise above.\u201d The publication has highlighted five emerging, cream of the crop sculptors to keep an eye on. \u201cThese are the talents shaping culture today\u2014and the ones to watch.\u201d The list includes Canadian photographer, sculptor, and installation artist Lotus L. Kang<\/a>, who was recently snapped up by Esther Schipper gallery in Berlin. Another is the sculptor Raven Halfmoon, who grew up as a citizen of the Caddo Nation in Oklahoma. She \u201cinherited the coil method of working with clay from her Caddo elder, Jeri Redcorn. The surfaces of her statues are enlivened by the ripples of Halfmoon\u2019s gestural mark-making caught in the stillness of time.\u201d Czech artist Kl\u00e1ra Hosnedlov\u00e1 also makes the grade. She \u201ccrafts large-scale, sci-fi-tinged installations that combine sculpture, performance, and elements of communist-era architecture using materials like cement and epoxy resin.\u201d Read the full list\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter. The Headlines \u2018DEALERS ARE MEANT TO BE DISCREET.\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,32701,308,93,61,60,31510,32702],"class_list":["post-43887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-bangkok-arts-and-cultural-centre","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-larry-gagosian","tag-lotus-l-kang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}