A year ago, Ali Tayar was just another downtown architect. Working in a renascent modernist idiom that owes as much to the James Bond movie Dr. No as Eero Saarinen’s Trans World Airlines terminal at Kennedy Airport, he did interiors for Waterloo, a restaurant on Charles Street, and Gansevoort Gallery on Gansevoort Street. Some of Read More
Late last year, Mark Dickstein sent two Mapplethorpe photographs that he owns to Christie’s to see about selling them in an upcoming auction. The 40-year-old head of an investment management firm had purchased the photographs–one was of a calla lily and the other was of a bunch of tulips in a vase–in 1994 from the Read More
Barry Friedman seems to have been born buying and selling beautiful things in a quick Brooklyn staccato. Since the 1960′s, when he went into the art business, the dealer has been jumping onto trends and creating markets for new media before his competitors. When Tiffany glass was hot in the 70′s, Mr. Friedman established himself Read More
It’s been more than 20 years since, inspired by a door in Barcelona, Julian Schnabel smashed a set of crockery and glued the pieces to a canvas, creating a group of paintings that became as integral to the 1980′s as Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings were to the 1950′s. From April 22 to June 5, a Read More
On April 13, Architecture magazine announced the 1999 recipients of the esteemed P/A award, given annually to young or undiscovered American and Canadian architects for design excellence in projects that are in the process of being completed. Michael Gabellini, best known for his interior design of Jil Sander stores and the Grant Selwyn Fine Art Read More
Since it was first organized in 1895, the Venice Biennale has been one of the main events of the art world, unmatched by any other exhibition for its location if not always for the quality of the work displayed. Situated in the picturesque Castello Gardens, a short water taxi ride from the center of Venice, Read More
When Robert Miller opened an eponymous gallery on the second floor of the Fuller Building in 1986, the storybook Art Deco tower on the corner of Madison Avenue and 57th Street was still the uncontested center of the art world. Each Saturday-the day of the week when most art deals are made-Mr. Miller would arrive Read More
On the evening of March 16, Todd Eberle and Robert Polidori flanked the entrance to the Robert Miller Gallery, at 41 East 57th Street, where they welcomed guests to the opening of Two Visions Brasília , a photographic study of Brasília, the monument to modernist architecture in the center of Brazil.
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Last April, Michael Govan, director of the Dia Center for the Arts, was piloting a small rented plane to western Massachusetts, where he was to discuss a joint venture with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Mass., to exhibit works from the Dia collection. Mr. Govan decided on a flight path along Read More
Randy Jones, publisher of Worth , Equity and Civilization , is a man with a healthy, oversize ego. That ego is housed in an enormous apartment with a grandiose, double-height living room on East 57th Street. But since Mr. Jones, 43, cleared out his building’s elevator shaft to lift a 48-by-66-inch portrait of himself into Read More
