The galleries Lehmann Maupin and White Cube will host a joint exhibition for Tracey Emin’s first solo show in Greater China. I Cried Because I Love You runs from 21 March to 21 May.
The Chinese art writers Wu Jianru and Zhang Xiyuan launched The Office, an experimental non-profit gallery, in Beijing in December. The space in a Wangjing mall opened with Huang Jingyuan’s work Two Billion Eyes.
The auction houses The biggest move in the art market in December was by Marc Porter, the chairman of Christie’s Americas, who left the firm after 25 years to join the rival auction house Sotheby’s. Details of Porter’s specific role will follow.
Bonhams has announced two new appointments to its Modern and contemporary art team. Ingrid Dudek joins as the department director for Asia and will based in New York from February. Ryo Wakabayashi joins as a senior specialist for Asia and will be based in Bonhams’ Tokyo office.
Meanwhile, Martina Batovic, who joined Bonhams’ contemporary art department a year ago, has left to become the new London director of Dorotheum, the Vienna-based auction house. Batovic starts in January.
The fairs
Frieze has hired Raphael Gygax as the new curator of Frieze Projects. Gygax is also the curator at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich.
Paris’s new African art fair Also Known as Africa has been postponed until 2016 due to the terrorist attacks in the French capital and Bamako, Mali, in November. Its artistic director, Timothée Chaillou, resigned over
the decision.
In other news… The London-based dealers Ivor Braka and Thomas Dane have donated six major works by contemporary British artists to the Whitworth gallery in Manchester. The donation includes works by Gilbert & George, Tracey Emin and Rebecca Warren.
Bowman Sculpture has sold the Sybil Mignon Cooke archive to the Musée Rodin. Cooke was an English actress and artist’s model who had a close relationship with Rodin, and the collection includes their correspondence and photographs.
