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The Headlines




THE WAR IN UKRAINE.  US prosecutors  have subpoenaed auction houses , including  Sotheby’s  and  Christie’s , as part of an effort to track artworks that sanctioned Russians could use to evade sanctions,  Bloomberg  reports. Among the high-profile art patrons reportedly named in the subpoenas are  Viktor Vekselberg  and  Roman Abramovich ; they have not been accused of wrongdoing, nor have the auction firms. Meanwhile, police in Russia  confiscated work  from an anti-war exhibition in St. Petersburg by artist  Elena Osipova , saying that the materials “possibly contain false information about the Russian armed forces,” the  AFP  reports. Under a new law in the country, publishing information about the Russian military that is deemed false can result in a prison sentence of up to 15 years.




LIVES OF THE ARTISTS.  The sculptor  Brandon Ndife , who conjures macabre and discomfiting sights, is  now represented  by New York’s  Greene Naftali  gallery, per  ArtDaily . Painter  Cy Gavin , who has been making abstracted views of nature, opens a show at  Gagosian  in Manhattan today, and was  profiled  in the  New York Times . The seemingly indefatigable multi-medium phenom  Nicolas Party   has a show up at  Xavier Hufkens  in Brussels, and  spoke to   Ocula . And the  National Gallery of Australia  said that it  will stage  a  Jordan Wolfson  solo exhibition—his first Down Under!—in December that will include a new animatronic work. Buckle up.




The Digest




NADA New York will this year move to West Chelsea, at 548 West on West 22nd Street. Some 88 exhibitors are lined up to participate. [ARTnews]




Lisson Gallery ’s forthcoming Los Angeles branch, originally scheduled to open last fall, will now open in April, due to construction delays. First up: a  Carmen Herrera  solo show. On February 14, it will stage a pop-up  Ryan Gander  exhibition in the city at designer  Dries Van Noten ’s  Little House  gallery.  [Financial Times]




Jenny Moore , who stepped down as director of the  Chianti Foundation  in Marfa, Texas, last summer, after nine years, has been named founding director of  Tinworks Art  in Bozeman, Montana. Tinworks, which was established four years ago, presents arts programming in a sprawling former warehouse complex.  [Artforum]




The first section of  Destination Crenshaw , the $100 million project to create a public space filled with art along a 1.3-mile stretch of Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles, is set to open in the fall with work by  Kehinde Wiley ,  Maren Hassinger , and more.  [Los Angeles Times]




A new documentary about artist  Robert Irwin ,  Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling , will screen at  South by Southwest  in Austin, Texas, in mid-March. Its producers include the Light and Space legend’s longtime dealer,  Pace Gallery  founder  Arne Glimcher .  [Deadline]




An exhibition at the  LGDR & Wei  gallery in Hong Kong is focused on pioneering modern painters from Singapore and Vietnam. “The works reflect the complicated relationship the artists had with national identity,” according to the show’s curator,  Karin Oen , who heads the department of art history at  Nanyang Technological University  in Singapore.  [South China Morning Post]




The Kicker




TAKING THE TEMPERATURE.  In the  New York Times , journalist  Alex Marshall  has a look at how some museums are  relaxing their strict climate-control regulations  in order to cut energy costs. The  Guggenheim Bilbao , for one, is set to save more than $20,000 a month. Still, many loan agreements carry tight temperature and humidity clauses, and some. museum professionals are hesitant to make such changes. As one sustainability consultant told the  Times , “You don’t want to be the conservator who says it’s OK to flip the switch, and all of a sudden your  Picasso s are melting.”  [NYT]