Wet Paint: Ken Griffin Buys Barnett Newman Masterpiece, In-Demand Painter Opens Downtown Gallery, & More Art-World Gossip
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May 7, 2021
Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel, testifying in front of a Senate committee. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
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Tobias Meyer? It’s been four years since the hall-of-fame rainmaker dubbed “The Seller of the Century” in the English rags made his last public appearance as advisor to the family of
Dealers managed to do strong business on opening day at the pared-down Frieze New York.
May 5, 2021
A fairgoer uses her phone in the cafe during the first day of Frieze art fair. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)
This is not a drill not-online, not-remote, fully inside, honest-to-god art fairs are back.
After 14 months of staring at images of paintings in digitally rendered booths, art-world VIPs lined up Wednesday morning at the Shed in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards district to enter Frieze New York.
This was by no means a foregone conclusion. Frieze, owned by the recently IPOed Endeavor, came close to scrapping its 2021 edition. (Plans for a scaled-back Los Angeles edition were indeed cancelled.) But thanks to rigorous safety protocols that prevent anyone from entering without proof of vaccine or a negative test not to mention a head-scratching requirement for shipped works to be isolated for three days the fair did indeed go off, with everyone wearing masks of co
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