White Cube Opens in New York City
If you read T&C's October issue, you'd know there was a White Cube headed for New York City. White Cube, of course, is the London gallery with outposts in Hong Kong, Seoul, Paris, and West Palm Beach, and on Friday it opened its first permanent location in Manhattan, right next to Sant Ambroeus Madison, in a former 1930s bank. Its director is Courtney Willis Blair, who was included in this year's class of our annual Creative Aristocracy list. The inaugural exhibit, "Chopped & Screwed," is on view through the end of the month, and its opening on Friday kicked off a two-night celebration that included an artists' dinner and a raucous party on Saturday evening at the nearby Fletcher-Sinclair mansion that featured performances by Kelela and the Sun Ra Arkestra. Along for the proceedings were White Cube founder Jay Jopling; artists Julie Mehretu—whose show "Bitter Apples" is on view at the gallery's Hong Kong outpost until November 11—the Arkansas artist and filmmaker Tiona Nekkia McClodden, who recently joined the gallery; Darren Almond, Michael Armitage, Julie Curtiss, Cerith Wyn Evans; the Whitney Museum's soon-to-be director—also included in this year's T&C Creative Aristocracy list—and various art world personalities, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Max Hollein, gallerist Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and the Art Production Fund's Yvonne Force Villareal.
Cerith Wyn Evans, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Courtney Willis-Blair, and Ebony L. Haynes
Cynthia Rowley and Yvonne Force Villareal
Hikari Yokoyama and Jay Jopling
Hikari Yokoyama, Jay Jopling, Cecily Bates, Angelica Jopling, Harry Weller, and guests
Jessica Morgan
Julie Mehretu, center, and Scott Rothkopf
Kelela
Matt Woodruff and Dianne Brill
Michele Lamy
Sun Ra Arkestra
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