Our weekly news roundup is an extension of Paint Drippings, which drops first in The Back Room, our lively recap funneling only the week’s must-know art industry intel into a nimble read you’ll actually enjoy.
Galleries
– Roland Augustine has stepped down as co-founding partner at New York’s Luhring Augustine Gallery to focus on philanthropy. Lawrence Luhring will head the gallery alongside partners Donald Johnson Montenegro and Lauren Wittels.
– New York’s Lehmann Maupin has announced a permanent London presence at Frieze’s No.9 Cork Street. The space will be inaugurated on February 26 by painter Freya Douglas-Morris, who has just joined the gallery’s roster.
– Ortuzar (New York) now represents the Peter Hujar Archive, Phoebe Helander has joined P·P·O·W (New York), Séverin Guelpa is now repped by Fabienne Levy (Lausanne), Jolien Kwakkenbos has joined Carl Freedman (Margate).
– Berlin’s Mehdi Chouakri gallery, founded in 1996, has announced a temporary pause in its programming “to reflect on how [its] work might best be continued in the future.”
– Ariel De Sal has been promoted to director of New York’s Jane Lombard Gallery.