Title: theanyspacewhatever
Location: NEW YORK - Guggenheim Museum
Description: A genealogy of their shared history through site-specific installations of new, often self-reflexive works created on the occasion of this project.
Start Date: 2008-10-24
End Date: 2009-01-07

During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favor of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters.

Title: Catherine Opie: American Photographer
Location: NEW YORK - Guggenheim Museum
Description: A complex body of photographic work
Start Date: 2008-09-26
End Date: 2009-01-07

Since the early 1990s, Catherine Opie has produced a complex body of photographic work, adopting such diverse genres as studio portraiture, landscape photography, and urban street photography to explore notions of communal, sexual, and cultural identity.

Title: Early Buddhist Manuscript Painting: The Palm-Leaf Tradition
Location: NEW YORK - Metropolitan Museum
Description: This installation of thirty palm-leaf folios will feature some of the earliest surviving Indian illuminated manuscripts dating from the tenth to the thirteenth century.
Date: 2008-07-29

Title: Jeff Koons on the Roof
Location: NEW YORK - Metropolitan Museum
Description: On view is an installation of sculptures by American artist Jeff Koons (b. 1955), featuring three of the artist’s meticulously crafted works that have never before been on public display.
Start Date: 2008-07-22
End Date: 2008-10-26

Title: J. M. W. Turner
Location: NEW YORK - Metropolitan Museum
Description: The first retrospective of the work of J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) presented in the United States in more than forty years, this international exhibition highlights approximately 140 paintings and watercolors—more than half of them from Tate Britain\’s Turner Bequest—along with works from other collections in Europe and North America.
Start Date: 2008-07-01
End Date: 2008-09-21

Title: Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe
Location: NEW YORK - Metropolitan Museum
Description: This is the most comprehensive exhibition to date on the tradition of hardstone carving (pietre dure) that developed in Italy in the 16th century and subsequently spread through Europe.
Start Date: 2008-07-01
End Date: 2008-09-21

translated by Giorgina Arcuri

Art Basel has started and the buyers have arrived. However, the Americans are missing. This seems to be the biggest complaint on behalf of operators. The American public has stepped aside and given way to the Europeans. It is not a change that affects the number of transactions, but rather an actual geographic shift of the market. This does not worry all the art gallery managers, some of whom have proven to be indifferent with respect to who buys the works. Also because many of the participants are too busy calculating their business volume to worry about the nationality of the buyers.

Turin is hosting the exhibition dedicated to the fascinating Japanese artist who, with his sophisticated style, has been able to communicate and provoke, becoming the symbol of a Japan that is changing, although it remains attached to its traditions.
The Araki Gold exhibition started in November, with its first stage in Rome that ended last February. The exhibition is now continuing in Turin where, after being hosted by the State Archive, more than 500 images will migrate during June and July to a provincial venue, to Villa Remmert (Ciriè).

For some while now the importance of private institutions intervening in the art sector has been debated. For instance, Milan, considered the capital city of contemporaneity in Italy, is still waiting for a museum able to be in line with current artistic trends. However, in the meanwhile, fortunately there are the private institutions. Some of the most important ones are the Amaldo Pomodoro Foundation, the Antonio Mazzotta Foundation and the Nicola Trussardi Foundation. Mainly firms active in the fashion sector, one of the sectors that for its nature comes closer to art, through their foundations have become important reference points for art.

New York auctions have given us some exciting news. In particular, two very important new records: Francis Bacon has realized the highest price ever paid for a work of contemporary art and Lucian Freud has become the most paid living artist in the world. However, after the adrenalin stirred up by the important results, the time for questioning arrives. Who might be the mysterious buyer of the fantastic paintings sold in New York? What will become of them? Public exhibition or private viewing?
Some of these questions may have found an answer. Indeed, within the circle there are rumours about a few names, and it seems that the buyer of the two masterpieces of contemporary art sold in the last days has been identified.