Museums
The Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation has announced plans to open a new museum of Arab Art in Beirut — to open in 2020.
The planned 10,000- to 15,000-square foot institution will house the 4,000 work collection of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul. Whilst the location is yet to be decided, Basel Dalloul, managing director of the Dalloul Foundation, has revealed that the museum will host temporary exhibitions and also provide spaces for education, research and the conservation of Arab Art. In addition, Dalloul has also revealed that the museum will seek to partner up with international institutions including the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and London’s British Museum. More via The Art Newspaper.
Ramzi Dalloul
Galleries
Paris’ Gallerie Laurent Godin has announced it is moving from its current location in Rue du Grenier-Saint-Lazare, a stone’s throw away from the Centre Pompidou, to a new space in the city’s 13th arrondissement — 36 bis rue Eugène Oudiné.
Following the summer break and the move, the gallery will inaugurate its new space with a show by artist Gonzalo Lebrija — opening October 15, running through December. Artists represented by the gallery include Scoli Acosta, Sylvie Auvray, Claude Closky and Philippe Durand.
Scoli Acosta exhibition view, Galerie Laurent Godin
HR
Christie’s has announced that Laura Paulson, who has been with the company since 1989, was appointed Vice Chairman of Christie’s Americas Advisory Board. Paulson will also assume a new role as a Senior Advisor for Christie’s, allowing her to foster the company’s long-term relationships with existing clients and institutions.
Over the course of her career Paulson was responsible for several of the most significant collections to come to auction, including David N. Pincus’ works of Abstract Expressionism, which fetched a staggering $174.9 million at auction, or the Bergman Collection, the collection of Ileana Sonnabend, the estate of Nina Castelli Sundell and the collection of Robert Shapazian among others.
Laura Paulsen. Image Courtesy of Chirsties ©
