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February 2012: NY Observer profiles Marc StrausRead Article (PDF)
February 2012: THE ART NEWSPAPER interviews Marc Straus
“The gallery business is a terrible concept”
Despite reservations, former oncologist and “fierce” collector Marc Straus has turned to dealing in contemporary art.
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December 2011: Zlatan Vehabovic named best young artist in Croatia.
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December 2011: Paul Pretzer selected as Saatchi Top 10 NY show.
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November 2011: Leonardo Silaghi show reviewed in Art in America magazine.
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November 2011: John Newsom voted among the Top 20 Artists in America.
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October 2011: John Newsom interview with Andre Butzer.
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10.06.11: Zlatan Vehabovic at Lauba House, Croatia.
Lauba House opens their permanent address in Zagreb, Croatia with an exhibition by Zlatan Vehabovic. The exhibition “Sweeping Confetti from the Floor of the Concrete Hole” will include Vehabovic’s most recent paintings. The exhibition will run through November 8, 2011.
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October 2011: Michael Brown at the Vanmoerkerke Collection in Belgium.
The exhibition will run through March 2012.
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10.01.11: Lower East Side Story
Marc Straus is featured in October's edition of The Art Newspaper.
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09.21.11: Jong Oh will participate in a group exhibition on September 21st at 308at156 project artspace located at 156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 308, New York, NY. The exhibition will run through December 1st and is organized by Wendy Olsoff of P∙P∙O∙W Gallery.
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09.16.11: John Newsom will participate in a group exhibition on September 16th at The Bowery Hotel located at 335 Bowery, New York, NY. The exhibition will run through October 15th, 2011. Installed in a rough hewn-space below the Bowery Hotel, curator Peter Makebish composes a salon-style group show. The selected artists’ works draw an intrinsic, perhaps serendipitous kind of knowing and recognize that the expressive reach of each painter’s idiom exists by companionship.
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08.08.11: Oncologist/Collector Marc Straus to Open Gallery in LES
Marc Straus, a "mostly retired" oncologist, collector and co-founder of the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, N.Y., is returning to his Lower East Side roots to open his own gallery. The gallery is launching with a roster of 13 artists, mostly emerging, from eight countries. Opening Sept. 7 is a show of paintings by 23-year-old Leonardo Silaghi from Cluj, Romania.
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07.27.11: Review: “The House Without the Door”
Mona Hatoum’s 1999 sculpture Home (featuring kitchen implements with wires running out of them, accompanied by the sound of pulsating current) inspired this unsettling exhibition plumbing the darker side of the places in which we live. High on anxiety but regrettably low on risk factor, this hit parade of big-name artists still affords the pleasure of reconnecting with iconic artworks about painful circumstances.
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07.18.11: We are pleased to announce the opening of MARC STRAUS, a gallery opening September 2011 at 299 Grand Street in New York. Straus returns to Grand Street to open a contemporary art gallery in a three-story building just across the street from the textile store which his immigrant father had owned and where Marc worked from childhood until he graduated medical school. Marc says, “My roots are here. This is an area with yet another life, vital to the emerging art scene.”
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07.18.2011: Marc Straus opens September 7, 2011 at 132 Delancey St. (northeast corner of Norfolk) while its permanent space is being reconstructed.
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07.18.2011: Marc Straus announces its opening exhibition schedule.
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07.18.2011: John Newsom will be opening a solo exhibition on September 24th at The Richard J. Massey Foundation for the Arts and Sciences located at 601 West 26th Street, Suite 1385, New York, NY. The exhibition will run through December 31st, 2011. This will be Newsom's first survey exhibition and will span works from 2003 to the present, selected from The Richard J. Massey Collection. A full-color hardcover monograph will accompany the exhibition, published by CHARTA in Milan. For further information please visit www.rjmfas.org or contact the gallery.
07.09.11: Antonio Santin: Full Dedication to Art
Wedding’s cheap rents and high vacancy rate attracts artists to work in the neighbourhood yet the district remains rough despite several failed attempts by the city to establish it as the new Mitte. When Antonio Santin invited us to visit his studio in Wedding, we therefore pictured ourselves in an abandoned industrial surrounding. Instead we found ourselves inside a small, enchanted backyard, lined with Antonio’s huge canvases of young, stoic, women dressed in colourful ropes.
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07.01.2011: The Voices Emerging From College Studios.
Last November, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art assembled a team of 18 gallery owners, curators, collectors and artists for the purpose of making studio visits — not to already-established artists, but to art students in master of fine arts programs across the United States, including Jong Oh.
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07.01.2011: David Zwirner is pleased to present The House Without the Door at the gallery’s 525 and 533 West 19th Street spaces.
The exhibition includes works by Adel Abdessemed, David Altmejd, Francis Alÿs, Mamma Andersson, Louise Bourgeois, Michael Brown, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Maureen Gallace, Isa Genzken, Robert Gober, Mona Hatoum, Toba Khedoori, Charles LeDray, Thomas Ruff, Gregor Schneider, Luc Tuymans, Jeff Wall, and Rachel Whiteread.
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