By Kim Velsey 11/29/12 3:50pm

Manhattan Transfers

Ms. Gladstone.

A Done Deal: Barbara Gladstone Abandons Richard Meier’s Glass Tower

Veteran gallery owner Barbara Gladstone doesn’t only love art and artists, she’s also shown a strong commitment to starchitects. After buying a condo at Richard Meier’s 165 Charles Street in 2005, she tapped rising star Annabelle Seldorf to design her Chelsea gallery, which opened in 2008.

But now Ms. Gladstone is leaving behind her glass house along the Hudson River. City records show that she sold her condo, which does not appear to have been listed publicly, for $6.5 million. Not bad, considering that she paid $4.86 million for it, according to city records. Read More

By Will Heinrich 7:05pm

Exhibit

DJED (2009-2011) by Matthew Barney.

Richard Serra's Junction/Cycle at Gagosian Gallery and Matthew Barney's DJED at Gladstone Gallery

The materials of Richard Serra’s two enormous new sculptures, currently dominating the Gagosian Gallery on 24th Street, will be recognizable to anyone who knows Mr. Serra’s work. They’re made from curved, continuous steel plates more than thirteen feet high, rusted into shades from powdery orange to Martian mahogany, and marked with what are or appear to be scales, drips, streaks, stretch marks, shadows, calcium deposits, water stains, and lightning bolts. The rust continues so evenly that it’s only the occasional glint of a silvery, unrusted corner that looks like evidence of the human hand. Seen from above, their shapes are also recognizable: Cycle is a triskelion composed of three floppy, interlocking “S”s, which create three roughly circular clearings and three spiraling corridors. Junction, also made of steel plates doubled into corridors, looks more like a pinched, four-pointed star. Read More