At the Paris Theatre, I recently saw L’Amour Fou, the wonderful documentary about the February 2009 sale at Christie’s Paris of the art and design collection of Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, decorator Pierre Bergé. The auction totaled almost $300 million and set many records: an Eileen Gray chair sold for $28 million after Read More
A show of the Robert and Ethel Scull collection at the Acquavella Gallery last spring included Willem de Kooning’s Police Register, a canvas David Geffen would decades later sell to Steven Cohen for, according to different reports, between $35 million and $60 million. Michael Findlay, the gallery director of Acquavella, told me during Read More
If New York is the center of the art world—and it is—these are the buyers and collectors who run it. With input from top dealers, auction house officials and museum curators, The Observer has identified the 50 people in (and around) the city with the power to move the market.
Which isn’t to say they Read More
There is a long and honorable tradition of eateries and watering holes where artists can settle their checks with their work. And there is about to be another. Francesca Gavin, art curator for the London-based Soho House brand of private clubs, is heading here to amass a collection for the New York branch, bar tabs Read More
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