Septembre 26 | Marian Goodman opens a new Paris gallery space

The new gallery, located at 66 rue du Temple, will be situated almost directly opposite Goodman’s existing Paris space, and will open with a show of works in ink by Annette Messager, who was awarded Japan’s Praemium Imperiale international art prize last week. The 100-square-meter gallery will feature a space for temporary exhibitions and a bookstore. More info via The Art Newspaper.

The London Art Fair, England’s most significant fair dedicated to Modern British and contemporary art, has just announced the full exhibitor list for its 29th edition, which will take place in Islington’s Business Design Centre from January 18 through 22, 2017. 125 international galleries specializing in modern and contemporary art will be featured at the fair, with over 25 newcomers among them  — including the Korean Do Gallery, New York’s Muriel Guepin Gallery, and the Galerija Fotografija in Ljubljana. The full exhibitor list is available via artnet News.

A photography gallery based in Moscow has taken down the US photographer Jock Sturges’ exhibition “Absence of Shame” after coming under fire from pro-Kremlin activists and officials for supposedly promoting pedophilia. On September 25, after having been raided by police and activists, the Lumiere Brothers Photography Center held a news conference at which one of the activists poured urine on a photograph. The gallery’s founders, Eduard and Natalia Litvinsky, have announced they are shutting down the show permanently. The Art Newspaper has more.

The Los Angeles branch of Martos Gallery is now becoming the second location of dealer Jose Martos’s project space Shoot the Lobster, which started at Martos’s former New York space on West 29th Street in Chelsea before moving to its current on location on Eldridge Street. The first exhibition at Shoot the Lobster’s new LA space opened on September 22, featuring a coven of witches and magicians known as the Astral Oracles. More on Artforum.