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Michael Werner Gallery is an art gallery founded by Michael Werner in New York City during the year 1990. It is the U.S. extension of the German Galerie Michael Werner founded in 1963 in Berlin. A London branch opened in 2012.HistoryA high school dropout from a working-class family, Michael Werner started his career in the art world as assistant at Berlin-based Rudolf Springer Gallery in 1962. In 1963, he opened his first gallery, Werner & Katz, in Berlin, Germany with the first solo exhibition of Georg Baselitz. Galerie Michael Werner was later established in Cologne in 1969. Since then, Galerie Michael Werner has worked with represented many of the most important artists of the 20th century (see artists list).In the 1980s, Werner lived in New York and married fellow art dealer Mary Boone. Michael Werner Gallery opened its doors in New York in 1990 under the direction of Gordon VeneKlasen, who eventually became a partner in the gallery. The gallery currently occupies the historic East 77 Street townhouse where legendary dealer Leo Castelli once kept his gallery and was redesigned by Annabelle Selldorf. Michael Werner Gallery presents modern and contemporary European and American art. Recent major exhibitions include Sigmar Polke: Lens Paintings, Wilhelm Lehmbruck: Sculptures and Etchings, and Major Works of Marcel Broodthaers, "Peter Doig, New Paintings" as well as the first New York solo exhibitions of Hurvin Anderson, Aaron Curry, and Enrico David.
The Leo Castelli Gallery opened in New York at 4 East 77th Street on February 10, 1957. In 1958 the gallery gave Jasper Johns his first exhibition. Within 10 years, the gallery became the international epicenter for Pop, Minimal, and Conceptual Art, showing among others Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, and Keith Sonnier. In 1971 the Castelli Gallery opened a second space at 420 West Broadway in SoHo. During this decade, several Conceptual artists joined the gallery, including Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner and Hanne Darboven. Leo Castelli, the gallery’s founder, had an unparalleled eye for quality, combined with his extraordinary skill for nurturing and promoting new art and artists. These essential qualities secured his position as possibly the most respected and influential advocate for contemporary art of his time. In 1999 the Leo Castelli Gallery moved the Upper East Side, where it has since been located. For the last ten years, the gallery has been directed by Castelli’s wife, Barbara Bertozzi Castelli. Ms. Bertozzi Castelli is an art historian whose specialization is post-war Japanese avant garde art. The gallery maintains a commitment to show the best of post-war art, with a focus on the art movements to which it has been home for so many years. The gallery’s program includes exhibitions of new works by historic gallery artists as well as rigorous critical exhibitions that shed new light on understanding of Pop, Minimal and Conceptual Art today.
Olivier opened his first boutique in 1994 at 19 East 76th Street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Olivier then Opened L’Olivier Downtown in 2004. It is located in Chelsea at 213 West 14th Street. The latter is not only a boutique but also a gallery featuring floral photography exhibits by artists including Michael Vollbracht, Renato Freitas, Alexander Vethers, Christopher Beane and Paul Solberg. It also serves as an event venue for product launches and receptions, many of which are held in the boutique’s enchanting private garden. At both the uptown and downtown boutiques the beauty of the natural word and the appeal of contemporary design are seamlessly juxtaposed with our urban environment.
The James B. Duke House is located at 1 East 78th Street, on the northeast corner at Fifth Avenue, in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The house is one of the great extant mansions from "Millionaire's Row". James Buchanan Duke was one of the founding partners of American Tobacco Company and the owner of Duke Power.HistoryArchitect Horace Trumbauer's design of the house drew heavily upon the Hôtel Labottière (1773), Bordeaux, by the Bordeaux architect Etienne Laclotte, architect of numerous hôtels particuliers in Bordeaux. The similar treatment of the central bay with its recessed entrance and window on the piano nobile, and the channeled rustication are particularly salient features shared by both urban town houses.Construction was completed in 1912, and the three members of the Duke family—James B., his wife Nanaline, and their daughter Doris—lived there with their staff part of the year. In 1952, Nanaline and Doris donated the building to New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. Robert Venturi renovated the building for academic use in 1958. The main reception rooms on the ground floor retain many of the original furnishings and decorations, while the Institute's library and faculty offices have colonized the eight bedrooms of the second floor and the servants' quarters on the third floor.