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exhibition space for art in the Founded by Harry Blain and
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design for the museum’s expansion; Graham Southern in 2002, Haunch
putting on the quirky and of Venison was acquired by Christie’s
strangely convincing Magritte and in early 2007, which, while causing
Contemporary Art, with exhibition consternation in some circles, gave
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design by John Baldessari; and the gallery vastly increased financial
purchasing the office of the ornery clout and made them the biggest
‘organic modernist’ architect John movers upwards on this list. In
Harry Blain &
Michael Govan
Lautner, and re-installing it within the addition to their established spaces
Graham Southern
Category: Curator museum – lauded by cultural types Category: Gallerist
Nationality: American across the city as a major coup. Nationality: British
Last Year: 33 Last Year: 54
For more than a decade, the Los in London and Zurich, the gallery’s
Angeles County Museum of Berlin outpost opened in September
Art puttered along as the great this year and a New York branch
underachiever within an increasingly is due to open in 2008. Perhaps
dynamic LA art scene. Under Haunch is destined to become
director Andrea Rich, who was an the Guggenheim of commercial
able administrator, some might have art galleries. Still, it’s not all about
called LACMA a sleeping giant. big bucks and retail outlets; the
All of that began to change gallery’s artists have had a pretty big
quickly when Michael Govan arrived year too. Following an epic James
in 2006 from the Dia Art Foundation Rosenquist retrospective, splattered
in New York, where he had been across three venues during last year’s
president and director. While at Frieze Art Fair, Keith Tyson’s Large
Dia he oversaw the creation of Dia: Field Array (2006) toured Denmark
Beacon, turning what could have and the Netherlands (spring 2007),
been an improbable scheme – a before being acquired by Anita and
museum of earth art more than an Poju Zabludowicz. Zarina Bhimji
hour outside New York City – into a and Nathan Coley make up half of
bona fide hit. this year’s Turner Prize shortlist, and
His contributions to LACMA Philippe Parreno has been just about
already include clearing more everywhere this summer.
Last year’s Frieze Art Fair all of the paddles were quiet, the
showed just how much Matthew clap of Tobias Meyer’s gavel set
Slotover and Amanda Sharp have the sale at $72,840,000, the new
transformed the London landscape. world record for a single postwar or
October is now Frieze month, but contemporary art work at auction,
it’s turning into London’s official art and one more feather in Meyer’s
month too. On the back of the fair, distinguished cap.
London auction houses made £74 Not to be outdone, it took
million last year, a figure that should Cheyenne Westphal – Meyer’s
be added to Frieze’s estimated £33 able counterpart in Sotheby’s
million sales. Zoo Art Fair continues contemporary art department
to head up the ‘alternative’ fairs – less than a month to stage another
20)
riding the wave, with all manner of record-setting sale. Damien Hirst’s
smaller operations turning up to get narcotic medicine cabinet, Lullaby
a piece of the action. Even the big Spring (2002), sold for £9.6 million,
olfgang Günzel (
institutions like Tate set out their making Hirst the most expensive
autumn programme with an eye to living artist – a record he (and
ago (19), W
ar
the attention generated by Frieze. Sotheby’s) stripped away from
ax F
M
Keeping the galleries coming seems Lucien Freud (and Christie’s), who’d
s (18),
earned it just 24 hours prior.
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to be no problem: this year, only In May, Sotheby’s New York 18
rieze (17), Sotheby’
CMA (15), courtesy F
one in every three that applied was offered what became known as LA
Matthew Slotover
accepted and the fair is now focusing the Rockefeller Rothko, a large
on emerging galleries from the less 1950 canvas entitled White Center
Tobias Meyer &
& Amanda Sharp
likely corners of the world. The duo’s (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose),
Cheyenne Westphal
useum Associates/
Category: Art fair only challenge seems to be to keep which David Rockefeller had bought Category: Auction house
Nationality: British the main event fresh, relevant and at from the Sidney Janis Gallery in Nationality: German
Last Year: 8 the forefront of the fair circuit. 1960 for roughly $10,000. When Last Year: 23 photos: 2006 M
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