The winners have been announced for Amway heir Rick DeVos’ annual ArtPrize award, the Michigan-based art competition that gives a total of nearly $500,000 to 18 artists, all chosen in a public balloting that takes place in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The J. Paul Getty Museum and Research Institute has acquired 74 photographs by artist Ed Ruscha and the contact sheets, drawings, maquettes, proofs and thousands of negatives that make up the artist’s “Streets of Los Angeles” archive, part of which is a gift from Ruscha himself.
Luxembourg Dayan, the Manhattan-based dealership headed by the femme power duo of Daniela Luxembourg and Amalia Dayan, is opening a branch in London at 2 Savile Row.
Megadealer Larry Gagosian’s retail store at 988 Madison Avenue abruptly closed its doors last weekend, prompting a flurry of commentary on Page Six in the New York Post, which broke the story, and all the art blogs, which ran with it.
