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Zurich’s Galerie Philipp Zollinger Closes After 7 years

Zurich’s Galerie Philipp Zollinger Closes After 7 years

Published by Jenni Sidey

After seven years in Zurich, Galerie Philipp Zollinger will cease operations, its founder announced today on Instagram. “I have always believed in hoping for the best while preparing for the unexpected,” Zollinger said in a statement. “A few months ago, I wrote to you about resilience and flexibility. At the start of this year, I was prepared to once again invest the time, energy, and conviction required to push the gallery forward. I wanted to believe in a recovering market and a path toward growth.” Related Articles However, Zollinger continued, “it has become increasingly clear that the global landscape offers little more than continued instability,” adding that the “conditions necessary” to sustain and grow the gallery “are no longer present.” The gallery’s compact roster leaned toward Swiss and Scandinavian artists working in three-dimensional media, while also including artists from Southeast Asia and the United States. Its most recent exhibition, presented at Galerie Mueller in Basel, Switzerland, and closed on April 18, is a dual presentation of Renée Levi, a Swiss painter associated with Basel’s abstract …

LA’s The Box Gallery to Close After 19 Years

LA’s The Box Gallery to Close After 19 Years

Published by Jenni Sidey

The Box in Los Angeles announced this weekend that it would close after 19 years in business. Its final show was a two-venue collaboration with Parker Gallery for the late California artist Wally Hedrick, which ran through April 4. The gallery said they would mark the closure with a fashion show for Johanna Went, done in collaboration with artist and playwright Asher Hartman on June 6. “While this decision has been brewing for some time, it has landed with urgency, shaped by a set of circumstances that made continuing impossible,” gallery founder Mara McCarthy wrote in a statement sent to its email listserv and posted on Instagram. “It feels right to end this way, with the kind of work we always existed to support: radical, enlightening, and not easily contained by the commercial marketplace.” Related Articles Located at 805 Traction Avenue in downtown LA, The Box opened in June 2007 with a multichannel video installation by Spandau Parks. In her statement, McCarthy described the impetus behind creating The Box as a collaboration with her father, the iconic LA-based artist …

Marian Goodman Gallery to ‘Pause’ Operations in Los Angeles

Marian Goodman Gallery to ‘Pause’ Operations in Los Angeles

Published by Jenni Sidey

Marian Goodman Gallery will pause operations at its Los Angeles outpost after two and a half years at the conclusion of its current solo show for Tacita Dean on April 25. In a statement sent to ARTnews, the gallery’s four partners, Rose Lord, Junette Teng, Emily-Jane Kirwan and Leslie Nolen, said, “The Partners of Marian Goodman Gallery are consolidating programming to our historic homes in New York and Paris. Our programming will continue to be anchored in these two global art capitals, advancing the transatlantic dialogue between the United States and Europe that has been foundational to our gallery since its inception in 1977.” Related Articles The gallery avoided saying that it would definitely cease operations in LA, stating instead that the partners would “evaluate the next phase for the space” and “maintain our presence in Los Angeles and in cities internationally through special projects, art fairs, and museum exhibitions in support of our artists and clients.” Marian Goodman is the latest blue-chip gallery to close one of its outposts in the past year, with London-based Timothy Taylor closing in New …

London’s Timothy Taylor to Close New York Outpost After a Decade

London’s Timothy Taylor to Close New York Outpost After a Decade

Published by Jenni Sidey

The London-based gallery Timothy Taylor will close its New York outpost next month at the conclusion of its current show for James Prapaithong, after nearly a decade of operation in Manhattan. The decision was made “to ensure the long-term stability of the gallery and the community around it,” the gallery told ARTnews. The gallery, however, will maintain an office and viewing room in New York. “In light of current market conditions, the gallery has made the decision to close its New York space and consolidate its operations while continuing our relationships with artists and maintaining our gallery space in London,” Timothy Taylor, the gallery’s founder, said in an emailed statement to ARTnews. “However, the realities of the present climate, combined with the considerable costs of operating a second permanent space, make this a prudent and responsible step.” Related Articles Taylor opened in London’s Mayfair district in 1996, and first expanded to New York in September 2016, opening on the ground floor of a townhouse on 19th Street in Chelsea. In 2023, it moved to Tribeca, …

Sperone Westwater Court Fight Reveals Details Behind Closure

Sperone Westwater Court Fight Reveals Details Behind Closure

Published by José Betancourt

Sperone Westwater’s closure has exposed a deeper legal and financial dispute than first suggested by the gallery’s sudden shutdown at the end of 2025. Newly filed court documents allege governance failures, disputed payments to artists, and years of internal deadlock at the 50-year-old New York firm. As Artnet News reported earlier this week, the gallery closed amid a legal battle between its two principals, Gian Enzo Sperone and Angela Westwater, who each control 50 percent of the company. The dispute centers on the dissolution of Sperone Westwater Inc., which also owns the Norman Foster–designed building on the Bowery that has housed the gallery since 2000. Related Articles In a petition filed in New York Supreme Court in August and supported by nearly two dozen exhibits and affidavits submitted through early January, Sperone and Sandstown Trade Ltd., an entity connected to his family, are seeking judicial dissolution of the corporation and the appointment of a receiver to oversee the wind-down of its assets. The petition argues that the company has been paralyzed by irreconcilable internal divisions, the …