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This year, Marian Goodman Gallery a two-space show in the spring of
celebrates its 30th anniversary.
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2008) and Zhang Xiaogang have
Celebrations are already in full swing, been added to the gallery’s already
with all the sobriety and intellectual impressive roster. It seems as if, over
rigour for which the gallery is known:
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the coming months, we can look
a two-part exhibition (30/40: A forward to more developments in
Selection) showing works by 40 Pace’s Chinese adventure.
artists from the past three decades
of gallery exhibitions. Thirty years
Marian Goodman Marc Glimcher
is a long time to be in business and Category: Gallerist Category: Gallerist
the gallery and its owner are known Nationality: American Nationality: American
for their tenacity, surviving market Last Year: 15 Last Year: 18
slumps and numerous changes in
fashion (the gallery has remained Richter), overcoming what was This past year has been another
on West 57th Street, resisting the then a disinterested and even good one for PaceWildenstein – Sol
exodus to Chelsea and beyond). hostile audience. In the past year, LeWitt, Robert Ryman, Elizabeth
Goodman has long championed an Annette Messager exhibition at Murray, and Thomas Nozkowski
avant-garde European art and the gallery’s Paris space opened to were all included in Robert Storr’s
introduced a number of artists positive reviews, while stable artists Venice Biennale, cult LA-based
to the US (including Gerhard (including Yang Fudong and Steve artist Tim Hawkinson had his first
McQueen) were represented in solo show with the gallery and
the Venice Biennale. Goodman Keith Tyson presented his massive
maintains close ties with her artists, Large Field Array (2006). Since
and is committed to promoting their the gallery was founded in 1960 by
work well past the precarious mid- Marc’s father Arne as a single-space
career phase. New York gallerist gallery in Boston, it has become
Friedrich Petzel described her in the something of an empire, with seven
New Yorker in 2004 as ‘the queen of spaces spread across New York,
us all’ and it’s safe to say her crown Los Angeles and Las Vegas. This
won’t slip any time soon. year Glimcher’s focus has shifted
from the west (Las Vegas) to the
east (China), as a result of which
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Chinese heavyweights Zhang Huan
(with whom the gallery will have
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it, for reasons that have fuelled They’ve been collecting art since e and Whitew
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speculation: when he sold the they were first married 42 years ago,
Pollock drip painting No. 5 (1948) when Mera Rubell was teaching, and
last year for about £70 million, it Don Rubell was in medical school.
23), Simon H
became the most expensive art Today the Rubells are trailblazers
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sale in history. That, combined with amongst collectors of contemporary
Geffen’s recent failed attempt to art, pioneering the concept of the
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purchase the Los Angeles Times private contemporary art museum.
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has some wondering if this famously Their collection of more than
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press-shy figure may have larger 6,000 works, which range from
civic or imperial ambitions. the 1960s to the present, has been
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housed in a 45,000-square-foot
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museum in the Wynwood District
of Miami since 1996, and receives
courtesy P
The ruthless and brilliant record around 1,500 visitors a week. With days of their careers.
industry mogul (and former Cher a reputation for pointing the way Their Red Eye exhibition
42 Scribbles 1,
suitor) holds not only one of the in contemporary collecting, the during last year’s Miami Basel was
best art collections in the US, Rubells have supported artists such a knockout success, confirming r
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but one of the best-kept secrets. as Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman and their nous for spotting new talent.
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The collection, thought to be of the Leipzig painters since the early Introducing the global artworld to
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medium size with major stars and emerging artists from Los Angeles,
little supporting cast, rarely goes on new names such as Sterling Ruby
public display.
‘Piece for piece, work for work,
there’s no collection that has a better
representation of postwar American 23 24
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and Thomas Houseago were shown
alongside heavy hitters like John
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Baldessari and Paul McCarthy.
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art than David Geffen’s’, the giving their support to local talent,
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Los Angeles curator Paul Schimmel with a solo show by the young 21), K
has said. Miami-based artist Hernan Bas,
Geffen, whose collection
David Geffen Don & Mera Rubell
alongside the famed British collagist
is thought to be rich with Johns, Category: Collector Category: Collectors John Stezaker, who has enjoyed
de Kooning, and Rauschenberg, Nationality: American Nationality: American something of a renaissance in the
has begun to unload some of Last Year: New Last Year: 29 last few years. photos: Michael Goodman (
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