As publicly reported Hollywood misconduct cases grow in frequency, there remains a lack of consistency with regard to how the industry responds. On Feb. 4, a group of WME staffers convened in a conference online to discuss the escalating Armie Hammer situation. For the past three years, the agency’s client advisory committee has been tasked with…
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What Sold at Frieze Los Angeles
The second edition of Frieze Los Angeles was a rare sequel that surpassed the original. By the time the credits rolled on Frieze L.A.’s sophomore outing at Paramount Pictures Studios on Sunday evening, an impressive coterie of Hollywood royalty and West Coast mega-collectors had passed through its booths and studio backlot installations. More importantly, galleries of every…

The Grey Report
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THE GREY REPORT
WARREN PLAYS TO EMPTY HALL PETE DRAWS BIGGEST CROWD BLOOMBERG TO SKIP IA, NH… WSJ: Could be strong nominee… Scaramucci: Trump sees threat… Wealth gives him options rivals don’t enjoy… JUDGE JUDY: He can unite ‘fractured American family’… BIDEN PLAYS IT COOL… INSTAGRAM TO START HIDING LIKES IN USA… Bannon testifies Stone was campaign link…

‘Saddened, humbled and heartbroken’: Mary Boone sentenced to 30 months in jail for tax fraud
The Manhattan art dealer Mary Boone was sentenced to 30 months in prison by the New York Southern District Court on two counts of tax fraud yesterday. Eligible for up to one year of supervised release, Boone’s jail time is six months short of the maximum term sought by the US attorney’s office, though Judge…

Robert Ryman, the Minimalist Painter Who Stripped the Canvas Down to Its Bare Essentials, Has Died
Robert Ryman, the Minimalist American artist known for his white-on-white canvases, has died at age 88 in New York. “We mourn his loss, but celebrate the never-ending legacy of his art and its impact on how we see the world,” reads a statement from Pace Gallery’s co-founders Arne and Milly Glimcher, and co-presidents Susan Dunne and Marc…

Nan Goldin Leads a Protest at the Guggenheim Against the Sackler Family
The Guggenheim Museum is crowded after five on a Saturday, when the price of admission is “pay what you wish.” Even in below-freezing weather this weekend, the ticket line snaked around the corner. People came in groups, couples, and alone. As happens in large crowds, at times the noise level rose spontaneously, as though something or…

11 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week
From an artist-led cruise aboard the Staten Island Ferry to a biennial in Brooklyn, here’s what we’re looking forward to this week. David C. Terry, Slave Owner (2019). Photo courtesy of FACTION Art Projects. Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking, shows, screenings, and events. See them below. Monday, February 4…

Woodstock Returns Again on the Festival’s 50th Anniversary
When the first Woodstock music festival was held in 1969, bringing around 400,000 people to a muddy field in Bethel, N.Y., it focused the world’s attention on pop music’s power to shape the culture. Half a century later, in a music market already jammed with big-ticket festivals, could another Woodstock muster the same impact?…

Philip Pearlstein A Portfolio
The GREY ORGANIZATION Look’s Back At the Work of Philip Pearlstein. A Portfolio Philip Pearlstein ISSUE 61, SPRING 1975 The drawings of the nude models are almost always done in the company of a small group of artist friends. We have met at one or another studio once a week, for more than twelve…