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M M Pablo Picasso Femme aux mains jointes, January 8, 1938. Oiland wax crayon on canvas, 32 x 24 inches (81 x 60 cm). Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill. © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Béatrice Hatala. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. in the art world intheArtworld.com May 2011 GEPPY PISANELLI “SUSPENDED LANDSCAPES” BILL HODGES GALLERY MAY 26 - JUNE 15, 2011 Glenn Ligon, Stranger Drawing #7, 2004 Norman Lewis, American Totem, 1960 Coal Dust, Oil and Pencil on Paper Mounted on Aluminum, 60 x 40 in. Oil on Canvas, 74 x 45 in. THIS and THAT April 28, 2011 - May 28, 2011 Glenn Ligon Norman Lewis Julie Mehretu Lyle Ashton Harris Lorna Simpson and others 24 West 57th Street, #607 New York, NY 10019 Tel: 212-333-2640 Fax: 212-333-2644 [email protected] billhodgesgallery.com 511 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001 Phone 212 242 4215 www.kipsgallery.com Suite 206 Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10am-6pm Saturday, 12:30pm-5:30pm EUN KYUNG BAE 1$66(5 &R MAY 12 - 26, 2011 3UH3XQXN(VNLPRVKDUSRRQFRXQWHUZHLJKW $' $2$1<ZHHN0D\WKWRWK 1DVVHU &RZLOOKRVWWKH6FKRIIHO9DOOXHWJDOOHU\ 3DULV 9LVLWZZZDRDQ\FRPIRUGHWDLOV 2SHQLQJUHFHSWLRQRQ0D\WK IURPDPWRSP 511 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001 Phone 212 242 4215 www.kipsgallery.com Suite 206 1DVVHU &R3ULPLWLYH$UW (DVWWK6WUHHW LQIR#QDVVHUWULEDODUWFRP tarting this season, you have probably noticed the Subiquious art maps appearing everywhere in New York —MDowntown, Uptown, Chelsea . Totalling 45,000 bi-monthly copies and distributed to the city’s M major art districts and top hotels, they’re hard to miss. EDITORIAL As the original magazine has evolved over the years, from a locMal art guide into a highly regarded art journal with increasing international content, 12 Picasso and Marite Therese gallery owners and art patrons have expressed the at Gagosian Gallery need for a simple guide that visitors can pick up in By Lee Klein galleries and hotels and walk around with, take notes 18 Jordan Eagles on, stick in their pocket. at Krause Gallery By Terry Ward Indeed, this was the premise of from its inception in 1998, when we were the firMst art publication to 20 Deborah Brown herald the importance of what was then an emerging at PooL Art Fair art district called Chelsea. By Jennie E. 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LISTINGS But of course you don’t have to be a gallery owner 36 New York City to access of the most up-to-date gallery listings ever. 47 Shanghai Have a great spring season. 47 Beijing iMntheA rtworld.com BASICS Vol. 14, No. 9, May, 2011 10 News ISSN 1534-5394 47 Auctions Publisher / M. Brendon MacInnis • Director/ Mi Jeong Kim 48 Index • Marketing / Vivian Yuanjiang • Contributing Writers / Mary Hrbacek / Francis Timothy Walsh / Nicolette Ramirez / Andy St. Louis / Jennie Park / Lee Klein / Terry Ward / • MAPS Graphic Design Asia Edition / Shelly Wang • Web Master / Jason Goodrow • Copy editor Intern /Claudia Eve Beauchesne 34 Village • LES •Soho • Tribeca 38 Chelsea • MPD Asia Bureau • Editor / Vivi Ying He 42 Uptown • Midtown • 57th Street MBM Publications, Room 104, building 2, 91 Tai An Rd Shanghai 44 Brooklyn • Williamsburg 200052 China. 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This map was followed by a second, “M Chelsea”, which includes the Design District and the West Village. The third map, “M Uptown”, includes the Upper East Side , the Upper West Side, Midtown and 57th Street. On the Move The Pace Wildenstein has moved to 534 W 25th St in Chelsea (the former location of Bortolami Gallery ). The Bortolami Gallery has moved from 534 W 25th St to 520 W 20th St in Chelsea. The Forum Gallery has moved from 745 Fifth Avenue to the Crown Building at 730 Fifth Avenue (see Midtown listings). A charming European style The Nohra Haime has moved from the Fuller Building boutique hotel. on 57th St to the Crown Building at 730 Fifth Avenue (see Midtown listings). Ethan Cohen Fine Art, one of New York’s oldest galleries Just off specializing in Asian art, has moved from 18 Jay St the Magnificent Mile to 14 Jay St (see Soho listings). & minutes from Navy Pier. 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Along with Shanghai Art Fair and KIAF , which take place later, Flagship Showroom : 200 East Chestnut Chicago continues the program “ ART PREMIUM” 511 West 25th St Suite 809 Art Taipei T. 212 352 3582 which encourages a cultural exchange and support 1.800.800.6261 F. 212 253 4154 senecahotel.com for Asian Arts by providing exclusive service and inviting VIPs from abroad, among the three art fairs. www.minimalusa.com [email protected] 10 inthe Artworld.com Review L’Amour Fou Picasso and Marite Therese Gagosian Gallery, New York “This show leaves no doubt that Marie-Thérèse By Lee Klein was one of the great muses in the annals of art, as rotean is the word often chosen to state what is Pconsidered obvious about Pablo Picasso, and seemingly a platitude thrown at a dartboard put be - she, for Picasso, could be seen embodying fore us to enhance or maintain the market value for countless counting powers that be; however, here it anything and everything as he, his love and his is proved with every curatorial move . Centered around the artist’s mistress Marie-Thérèse work morphed together” Walter the curators, Picasso biographer John Richardson and Dianne Widimaier Picasso (the artist and Marie-Thérèse’s grandaughter), have to - Therese (1935). Therein the first of the two com - gether chosen eighty plus works from the years mences a melody with an arc in the subject’s 1927-1940 that best represent this mysterious béret, which then goes on to become the unstated muse. For this unprecedented show, the chambers undulating motif of the next two rooms and is even - of Gagosian’s west 21st street gallery in Chelsea tually broken up throughout, while the second, a have been redone to spectacular effect by the side profile posed in the obverse of the usual odal - architect Annabelle Selldorf. Here again in con - isque, carries the visual cadence forth as well. tinuance, Larry Gagosian is blazing new turf for a commercial gallery to tread where museums once Exiting the first room and passing the very strange staked dominion. While Larry Salander, the phi - Marie-Thérèse accoudée (1939) things take a landerer, languishes in jail and the memory of dramatic turn in the next room; whereas unlike rustled Rembrandts and hustled Courbets (whereas double decker tourist buses which only go around he took the money and DeNiro took the stand) in a circle, Picasso’s faces tend to go in different Gagosian leaps from Anselm Kiefer’s triumph of directions. Le visage de Marie-Thérèse de profil last year’s Next Year in Jerusalem to this tour de (1931) is a most elegant delineation in shades of force by any measure, a Picasso exhibit on a single tan, grey and black. In this canvas, the separated theme —which would have given any William and abstracted face descends into a line, and an - Rubin curated exhibit at the MOMA more than a other swoops down not into an oval and a half, run for its millions. but, into an into oval and half an oval which then form an elongated ellipse. Further below, the pro - Part of an ongoing series of exhibitions at the file is a form, buxom yet slim, sublime masculine Gagosian galleries worldwide, this show leaves and feminine, and reminiscent of the silhouette of no doubt that Marie-Thérèse was one of the great a very fit Ricky Martin in a boater shirt.