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Annie Armstrong
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WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS – OR AT LEAST SHE WILL
I think 2023 may be the year the art world falls madly in love with. Paris. I understand! How can you not be seduced by the City of Lights, with all its magnificent architecture, its rich cuisine and, operationally, its very richer art collectors. If the surrounding energy Paris+ this year was an indicator, I’d say gay Paree is now THE happening place. Fresh paint can confirm this, because the wheels are now in motion for many new Yorkthe most faithful pillars to cross the pond.
This is certainly the case for Anton Kernthe director Brigitte Mulholland. “I can’t count the number of times someone asked me when I was going to open a gallery in Paris,” she told me on the phone from an ultra-chic restaurant. +33 Postal code. After nearly two decades working in New York, she has officially moved and will open her own gallery in New York. Swamp This April. “People know how much I love Paris! Everyone saw this coming for me and it stuck with me.
Mulholland said she will slowly roll out her roster of artists over the course of the year as she transitions out of her position at Kern. Wet Paint can confirm that artists whose solo exhibitions it has already planned next fall include Ryan Wilde And Sarah Dwyerand that she will kick off her programming with two back-to-back group shows with some heavy hitters in the mix, including Julie Curtiss, Hamish Chapman, Liz Glaessner, Andrew Sim, Sean FaderAnd Jessica Stoller. “It’s going to be full,” she said of her approach to her list. “I will work with emerging artists, established artists.”
So, did Mulholland’s choice come from enthusiasm for Paris or boredom in New York? Seems like it’s a bit of both. In his own words: “I’ve lived in New York for about 17 years and I feel like I’ve done everything I wanted to there. Paris has always called me. It was something I thought I could never do, then suddenly I realized I could!
Personally, I completely identify with being a Francophile and look forward to the day when I can write my gossip column. Freiche painting from my pied-à-terre with a Serge Gainsbourg disc playing softly in the background. Until then, I look forward to seeing the gallery scene heat up as well as global collector interest in reinvigorating the city as an art destination. Mulholland’s space is on the Rue de Turennewhich sits in a hub alongside other galleries such as David Zwirner,
I also admire Mulholland for her awareness that an American Girl in Paris must pay her dues before becoming a full-fledged Parisienne. “ My goal is that I want give something in Paris, I don’t want to bring it back,” she said. “I love this place, I love the culture. I want to contribute and contribute to the gallery scene here.
Formidable!
PRESENTING THE WET PAINT WTF AWARD FOR WEIRDEST PR BLAST
Behold: A peak inside the Academy of Contemporary Art’s inaugural gala and awards ceremony. Photo courtesy of BFA.
Last week I introduced my beloved readers to the most photographed art world socialite of the year, a completely official award that went to the charming and frustratingly photogenic gallerist. Hannah Traore. However, calculating who went furthest where was not the only research I conducted, and this week I would like to inaugurate another official and important distinction: the WTF Wet Paint Price for the most mind-blowing PR blast I’ve received this year.
For the record, I estimate that I receive between twenty and thirty art-related press releases per working day, which, if you do that math, means that I travel 8,000 of these things sent to my inbox this year (which actually seems a little small? But I assure you that’s not how I feel when I sit down to pick my way through the thickets at the machete). The one that stopped me in my tracks actually happened this month:
“ A Peak Inside The Academy of Contemporary Art Inaugural Gala and Awards Ceremony,” read the subject line, which is the most remarkably vague name for a gala I’ve ever seen, complete with a winking namesake typo. eyes and you might miss it. to launch it. what would I tell you The Academy of Contemporary Art it is, but their website is just a link to an info@ email address and nothing else. Anyway, the prestigious academy threw a party at Miami this year at Paris Theaterand judging by the B.F.A. Picturesit was a kind of Oscarsstyle event for some quite random members of the art world.
According to their press release, the founder and producer of the event Grégoire Vogelsang said the following: “This evening, we celebrate the creation of the Academy of Contemporary Art. We will pay tribute to the artists. We’ll celebrate the professionals working behind the scenes in contemporary art, including curators, art restorers, lighting, design, installation and more. All these professionals who contribute to the evolution of contemporary art.
I know not everyone is a writer by trade, but I would put a lot of money on this speech being generated by AI. Anyway, according to the press release, the awards will be annual, so I will prepare my speech for next year. I would like to thank the Academy!
WE HEAR
ICYMI: here is the CV submitted to @NYCMayor from the owner of Zero Bond, to be considered for a position on the Met Board. pic.twitter.com/w6YezAFShP
-Christophe Robbins (@ChristRobbins) December 20, 2023
Hell’s Gateis an excellent deep dive into the sprawling and somewhat corrupt social network of Mayor Eric Adams East complete of Easter eggs, but my favorite has to be Zero link founder Scott Sartianothe candidacy of to be appointed to the encounterboard of directors… John Utterson moved from Pilar Corrias assume the role of director of CLEARING in New York… Apparently, the appetite for NFTThis is not the case completely stop suddenly, like LACMA recently added one by Krista Kim to his collection…
SPOTTED
The launch of Andrew Kuo And Pascal Spengemannthe new line of pantyhose Shrits merch drew a line that wrapped around the block in Tribeca Last weekend *** Walter Robinson, Dana Schutzand scholar Jason Rosenfeld take a trip through Chelsea galleries gathered this week *** THE This year’s art world Christmas party was supposed to be Dean Kissick And Gavin Brownit’s a party TJ Byrnes this week *** Did my eyes deceive me, or did two of the art world’s most indelible brothers, Adam Lindemann And Nate Freeman, both are giving acoustic guitar performances this week? ***
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