Jeffrey Deitch (pronounced ''DIE-tch'';
[Mike Boehm (January 12, 2010)]
''Los Angeles Times
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''. born July 9, 1952) is an American
art dealer
An art dealer is a person or company that buys and sells works of art, or acts as the intermediary between the buyers and sellers of art.
An art dealer in contemporary art typically seeks out various artists to represent, and builds relationsh ...
and
curator
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. He is best known for his gallery Deitch Projects (1996–2010) and curating groundbreaking exhibitions such as ''Lives'' (1975) and ''Post Human'' (1992), the latter of which has been credited with introducing the concept of "
posthumanism
Posthumanism or post-humanism (meaning "after humanism" or "beyond humanism") is an idea in continental philosophy and critical theory responding to the presence of anthropocentrism in 21st-century thought. Posthumanization comprises "those pro ...
" to popular culture.
In 2010, ''
ArtReview
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History
Launched as a fortnightly broadsheet in February 1949 by a retired country ...
'' named him as the twelfth most influential person in the international art world.
Deitch has been closely associated with artists such as
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (;''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''"Warhol" born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol ...
,
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the neo-expressionism movement.
Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti ...
, and
Jeff Koons
Jeffrey Lynn Koons (; born January 21, 1955) is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror- finish s ...
. From 2010 to 2013, he served as director of the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA).
He currently owns and directs Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, an art gallery with locations in
New York
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* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
New York may also refer to:
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* ...
and
Los Angeles
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.
Early life and education
Deitch was born on July 9, 1952, and grew up in
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The city, located in Hartford County, Connecticut, Hartford County, had a population of 121,054 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 ce ...
, where his father ran a heating oil and coal company and his mother was an economist.
[Carl Swanson (January 13, 2014)]
Jeffrey Deitch Curates Jeffrey Deitch: The Return of the Art World's Most Essential Zelig
''New York Magazine
''New York'' is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.
Founded by Clay Felker and Milton Glaser in 1968 as a competitor to ''The New Yorker'' a ...
''. He attended public high school in
West Hartford, Connecticut
West Hartford is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, west of downtown Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford. The town is part of the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, Capitol Planning Region. The population was 64,083 at the 20 ...
, from 1967 to 1970. He was an exchange student in Paris in 1968, and in Japan in 1969.
He graduated from
Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University ( ) is a Private university, private liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1831 as a Men's colleges in the United States, men's college under the Methodi ...
in 1974 and received an
MBA
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from
Harvard Business School
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in 1978.
Career
Deitch opened his first gallery as a college student in 1972 at the Curtis Inn, a rented hotel parlor in
Lenox, Massachusetts
Lenox is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The town is in Western Massachusetts and part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Pittsfield Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,095 at the 2020 United States census ...
,
and sold out the first week. Fascinated by the work of Andy Warhol and other contemporary artists,
he later moved to New York and worked as a receptionist at John Weber Gallery in
SoHo
SoHo, short for "South of Houston Street, Houston Street", is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Since the 1970s, the neighborhood has been the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, art installations such as The Wall ...
.
[Randy Kennedy (June 30, 2010)]
Museum Role Fits a Former Art Dealer
''The New York Times
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''. From 1979 to 1988, Deitch helped develop and co-manage the art advisory and art finance department at
Citibank
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. In this capacity, he lent money to major art collectors and facilitated loans to small galleries like
Gracie Mansion
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for its 1984 renovation.
Having become a regular at Warhol’s
Factory
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, Deitch also introduced Warhol to a number of wealthy clients to draw their portraits.
In 2022, he appeared in the documentary series ''
The Andy Warhol Diaries
''The Andy Warhol Diaries'' is the dictated memoir of the American artist Andy Warhol and edited by his longtime friend and collaborator Pat Hackett. The book was published posthumously by Warner Books with an introduction by Hackett.
The 807-p ...
'' to discuss their friendship.
Deitch was also a friend of and art dealer for
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the neo-expressionism movement.
Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti ...
. He was the first dealer to buy a work by the artist and the first person to write about his work in print.
He later delivered the eulogy at Basquiat's funeral
and served on the artwork authentication committee for the artist's estate.
From 1988 to 1996, Deitch was a successful private dealer and art adviser to a number of collectors, including
Jose Mugrabi
Jose Mugrabi (; born 1939) is an Israeli businessman and art collector of Syrian descent. With a family net worth estimated at $5 billion, he is the leading collector of Andy Warhol, with 800 artworks.
Biography
Yosef "Jose" Mugrabi was born ...
.
[ ] As advisor to Goldman Sachs for the public art in its 200 West Street New York headquarters in 2006, Deitch helped to realize
Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu (born November 28, 1970) is an Ethiopian American contemporary visual artist, known for her multi-layered paintings of abstracted landscapes on a large scale. Her paintings, drawings, and prints depict the cumulative effects of urba ...
's 80-foot-long work "Mural",
[Calvin Tomkins (March 29, 2010).]
Big Art, Big Money: Julie Mehretu's 'Mural' for Goldman Sachs
. ''The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York T ...
''. Retrieved 2017-08-04. described by one critic as "one of the largest and most successful public art works in recent times".
In 1989, he bid US$10.5 million and paid $11.55 million for
Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock (; January 28, 1912August 11, 1956) was an American painter. A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, Pollock was widely noticed for his "Drip painting, drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household ...
's silvery ''No. 8, 1950'', then a record at auction for a work by the artist and the second-highest price at auction for a work by any contemporary artist. In 2006, he bought
Bridget Riley
Bridget Louise Riley (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter known for her op art paintings. She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France.
Early life and education
Riley was born on 24 April 1931 in West Norwood, No ...
's ''Untitled (Diagonal Curve)'' (1966), at
Sotheby's
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for $2.1 million, nearly three times its $730,000 high estimate and also a record for the artist.
Over his career, Deitch has crafted for himself a unique role that merges curatorial profile with the business side of art.
Curatorial projects
Since 1975, Deitch has curated exhibitions internationally. Among his most celebrated projects are ''Lives'' (1975), ''Born in Boston'' (1979), ''New Portrait'' (1984) at
Moma PS1
MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution at 2201 Jackson Avenue in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City, United States. In addition to its exhibitions, the institution organizes the Sunday Sessions performance series, th ...
, and ''Form Follows Fiction'' (2001) at
Castello di Rivoli
The Rivoli Castle is a former Residence of the Royal House of Savoy in Rivoli (Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy). It is currently home to the Castello di Rivoli – Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, the museum of contemporary art of Turin.
In 1997, ...
, Turin.
Between 1988 and 2008, Deitch curated numerous shows at
Deste Foundation
Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art is an arts foundation in Nea Ionia, a northern suburb of Athens, Greece. Housing the art collection of Greek businessman Dakis Joannou, it organizes exhibitions with the collection and commissions ne ...
, Athens, including:
*''Cultural Geometry'' (1988)
*''Psychological Abstraction'' (1989)
*''Artificial Nature'' (1990)
*''Post Human'' (1992)
*''Everything that’s Interesting is New'' (1996)
*''Fractured Figure'' (2007-2008)
In addition to Deste, Post Human was presented at five venues, including the Castello di Rivoli (Turin),
Deichtorhallen
The Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany, is one of Europe's largest art centers for contemporary art and photography. The two historical buildings dating from 1911 to 1913 are notable examples of industrial architecture from the transitional period ...
(Hamburg), and
The Israel Museum
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(Jerusalem). Philosopher
Rosi Braidotti
Rosi Braidotti (; ; born 28 September 1954) is a contemporary philosopher and feminist theoretician.
Born in Italy, she studied in Australia and France and works in the Netherlands. Braidotti is currently Distinguished University Professor Emer ...
and others credit the show with introducing the term "
posthuman
Posthuman or post-human is a concept originating in the fields of science fiction, futurology, contemporary art, and philosophy that means a person or entity that exists in a state beyond being human. The concept aims at addressing a variety of ...
" into the popular consciousness.
[Braidotti, Rosi. ''Feminismo posthumano''. Spain, GEDISA, 2022.]
In 1995, he wrote the strategic plan for the
Mori Art Museum
The is a contemporary art museum founded by the real estate developer Minoru Mori. It is located in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in the Roppongi Hills complex, a commercial, cultural, and residential mega-complex in Tokyo, Japan. The museum's ...
in Tokyo. His other curatorial projects have included the
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale ( ; ) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy. There are two main components of the festival, known as the Art Biennale () and the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Architecture Biennale (), ...
's
''Aperto'' (1993), ''City as Studio'' (K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, 2023), and ''Confluence'' (Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, Mumbai, 2023), collaborating with poet
Ranjit Hoskote
Ranjit Hoskote (born 1969) is an Indian poet, art critic, cultural theorist and independent curator. He has been honoured by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, with the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award and the Sah ...
on the latter.
Deitch is known as an advocate for
street art
Street art is visual art created in public locations for public visibility. It has been associated with the terms "independent art", "post-graffiti", "neo-graffiti" and guerrilla art.
Street art has evolved from the early forms of defiant gr ...
and has headed several influential public art projects with street artists.
[ ] He initiated Wynwood Walls with Tony Goldman in Miami in 2009
and Coney Art Walls on
Coney Island
Coney Island is a neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Brighton Beach to its east, Lower New York Bay to the south and west, and Gravesend to ...
in New York in 2015.
Art writing
In 1980, he became a regular columnist of ''
Flash Art
''Flash Art'' is a contemporary art magazine, and an Italian and international publishing house. Originally published bilingually, both in Italian and in English, since 1978 is published in two separate editions, Flash Art Italia (Italian) and ...
'' and the first U.S. editor of ''Flash Art International''. His writings have appeared in numerous international magazines, including ''Art in America'', ''
Artforum
''Artforum'' is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art. The magazine is distinguished from other magazines by its unique 10½ × 10½ inch square format, with each cover often devoted to the work of an artist. Notably ...
,''
''Garage'',
''Interview'' magazine, ''Kaleidoscope'',
''Paper'' magazine, and
''Purple'' magazine.
Deitch Projects (1996–2010)
In 1996, Deitch opened Deitch Projects in
SoHo
SoHo, short for "South of Houston Street, Houston Street", is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Since the 1970s, the neighborhood has been the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, art installations such as The Wall ...
in New York City. He stated in a later interview that he was inspired by the example of Warhol's Factory to try to "create space for another generation of misfits."
His first shows included works by
Vanessa Beecroft
Vanessa Beecroft (born April 25, 1969) is an Italian-born American contemporary art, contemporary performance artist; she also works with photography, video art, sculpture, and painting. Many of her works have made use of professional models, so ...
, Jocelyn Taylor,
Nari Ward
Nari Ward (born 1963 in St. Andrew, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-American artist based in New York City. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Hunter College. His work is often composed of found objects from his neighborhood, and "address issu ...
,
Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono (, usually spelled in katakana as ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.
Ono grew up in Tokyo and moved to New York ...
, and
Mariko Mori
is a Japanese multidisciplinary artist. She is known for her photographs and videos of her hybridized future self, often presented in various guises and featuring traditional Japanese motifs. Her work often explores themes of technology, spiritu ...
. Soon after, he bought the building housing Canal Lumber, a bigger space around the corner on Wooster Street. The first major exhibition project there was of a
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation. She is most known for her visual word art that consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative ca ...
video-and-slide-projection show in 1997.
An early advocate of graffiti art in the 1980s, he later introduced New York to the style of
street art
Street art is visual art created in public locations for public visibility. It has been associated with the terms "independent art", "post-graffiti", "neo-graffiti" and guerrilla art.
Street art has evolved from the early forms of defiant gr ...
which had originated in San Francisco in the 1990s among artists on the fringe of the skateboard scene. Deitch became well known as a supporter of young artists like
Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley (born February 28, 1977) leaving Freddie to raise the couple's six children on her own. 3/sup> Wiley has said that his family survived on welfare checks and the limited income earned by his mother's "thrift store"—which consiste ...
and
Cecily Brown
Cecily Brown (born 1969) is a British painter. Her style displays the influence of a variety of contemporary painters, from Willem de Kooning, Francis BaconScott, Sue (2013). "Cecily Brown" in ''The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium ...
, while also representing the work of more established artists like
Keith Haring
Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the Graffiti in New York City, New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual l ...
and
Jeff Koons
Jeffrey Lynn Koons (; born January 21, 1955) is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror- finish s ...
. In the 1990s, Deitch helped fund Koons' expensive “Celebration series” and also organized the artist’s 50th birthday party at his gallery.
In conjunction with Creative Time and ''Paper Magazine'', Deitch Projects also organized SoHo's annual Art Parade, with over 1,000 participants from 2005 to 2008.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
In 2010, Jeffery Deitch was appointed Director to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), which was seeking to recover from low attendance and a near-bankruptcy following the
Great Recession
The Great Recession was a period of market decline in economies around the world that occurred from late 2007 to mid-2009. .
Before stepping into the new role, Deitch closed Deitch Projects and also resigned from the Basquiat authentication committee.
During his three-year tenure, Deitch advised and curated seminal exhibitions such as ''Dennis Hopper: Double Standard'' (2010), ''The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Warhol'' (2012) and ''
Art in the Streets'' (2011), the first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art. In 2013, he helped organize a show by
Urs Fischer Urs Fischer may refer to:
* Urs Fischer (artist) (born 1973), Swiss-born contemporary visual artist
* Urs Fischer (footballer)
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in which the artist collaborated with 1000 LA residents to fill an exhibition space with clay figures. Additionally, Deitch conceived MOCAtv, the first original
YouTube channel
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dedicated to fine art. Deitch donated his after-tax salary back to the museum throughout his tenure.
By 2012, Deitch's directorship led to what one commentator called a "cultural collision" between Deitch's more popular art tastes and MOCA's previous interests.
Though Deitch was acknowledged to have boosted museum attendance to record levels, critics charged that MOCA's shows sometimes prioritized popular exhibits over artists who were well-known in the LA art scene or over more traditional scholarly concerns.
In 2012, as the conflict grew, MOCA's board of trustees unanimously voted to ask for the resignation of its longtime chief curator
Paul Schimmel
Paul Reinhard Schimmel (born August 4, 1940) is an American biophysical chemist and translational medicine pioneer.
Career
Paul Schimmel is a Professor of Molecular Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute. Prior to joining The Scripps Resea ...
, leading to the resignation of four artists on MOCA's board in protest.
Deitch resigned from MOCA the following year.
Return to art dealing
In 2014, Deitch published ''Live the Art'' on the 15-year history of Deitch Projects. In 2015, he began hosting shows at 76 Grand Street in New York, one of his former gallery spaces. In July 2016, he reopened his Lower Manhattan gallery at 18 Wooster Street, the space he ran from 1996 to 2010 and rented out to the
Swiss Institute
Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York (SI) is an independent non-profit contemporary art organization founded in 1986. SI is located at 38 St. Marks Place, at the corner of Second Avenue, in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in ...
for the following five years. Deitch now runs the two spaces under Jeffrey Deitch Inc. Since reopening the gallery, Deitch has organized exhibitions by
Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei ( ; , IPA: ; born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been ...
,
Kenny Scharf
Kenny Scharf (born November 23, 1958) is an American painter known for his participation in New York City's interdisciplinary East Village art scene during the 1980s, alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Scharf's do-it-yourself pract ...
,
Austin Lee
Austin Lee (born 1983) is an American artist based in New York. Lee's airbrush paintings often combine digital technologies with traditional media. He also works in sculpture and video.
Early life and education
Lee was born in Las Vegas, Nevada ...
,
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler (born Mailissa Yamba Butler in 1973) is an American fiber artist who has created a new genre of quilting that has transformed the medium. Although quilting has long been considered a craft, her interdisciplinary methods—which creat ...
,
Kenturah Davis
Kenturah Davis (born 1980 in Altadena, California) is an American contemporary multidisciplinary artist and designer. She works in the mediums of sculpture, drafting, printmaking, painting, and performance art. Davis has lived between the cities o ...
,
Sasha Gordon
Sasha Gordon (born 1998) is an American figurative painter who lives and works in New York City. She is known for hypperrealistic self-portraits set within surreal narratives and uncanny scenes. Complicating the genre of self-portraiture and eng ...
,
Kennedy Yanko, and
Walter Robinson, among others.
Every year, during
Art Basel Miami Beach Art Basel Miami Beach, sometimes referred to as "Art Basel Miami," is an art fair founded in 2002 as an offshoot of the flagship Art Basel fair in Switzerland. It is currently considered the most important art fair in the United States and was the f ...
, Deitch's gallery collaborates with art dealer
Larry Gagosian
Lawrence Gilbert "Larry" Gagosian (born April 19, 1945) is an Armenian American art dealer who owns the Gagosian Gallery chain of art galleries. Working in concert with collectors including Douglas S. Cramer, Eli Broad, and Keith Barish, he ...
on a thematic exhibition. From 2015 to 2021, the exhibitions were housed in The Moore Building of
Miami's Design District.
In 2018, Deitch opened a new space in Hollywood, designed by
Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry ( ; ; born February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become attractions.
Gehry rose to prominence in th ...
, specifically to mount what he described as "museum-level" exhibitions. The gallery was inaugurated with a solo exhibition of
Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei ( ; , IPA: ; born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been ...
, followed by shows by
Urs Fischer Urs Fischer may refer to:
* Urs Fischer (artist) (born 1973), Swiss-born contemporary visual artist
* Urs Fischer (footballer)
Urs Fischer (born 20 February 1966) is a Swiss football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of ...
,
Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history ...
,
Robert Longo
Robert Longo (born January 7, 1953) is an American artist, filmmaker, photographer and musician.
Longo became first well known in the 1980s for his ''Men in the Cities'' drawing and print series, which depict sharply dressed men and women writ ...
,
Nadia Lee Cohen
Nadia Lee Cohen (born 15 November 1990) is a British artist, photographer, filmmaker, and model.
Early life
Cohen was born in Essex in 1990, to an Israeli father, and a British mother of Ukrainian descent. She was raised on an isolated farm in ...
,
George Clinton, and
Refik Anadol
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, among others. The gallery has also organized large-scale thematic exhibitions such as ''Shattered Glass'' (curated by AJ Girard and Melahn Frierson, 2021), ''Clay Pop'' (curated by Alia Dahl, 2022), and ''Wonder Women'' (curated by Kathy Huang, 2023).
In 2019, Deitch edited ''Unrealism'', a publication on new figurative painting featuring the most groundbreaking contemporary artists and their important predecessors. The following year, he conceived the creation of the Gallery Association Los Angeles (GALA), to "generate excitement about the L.A. gallery scene" and shared his idea with a group of gallerists in Los Angeles. In May 2020, GALA launched galleryplatform.la, an online platform that serves the dynamic Los Angeles art community with editorial content and rotating online viewing rooms. In 2022, Deitch opened a second location in a historic building on
Santa Monica Boulevard
Santa Monica Boulevard is a major west–east thoroughfare in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It runs from Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica near the Pacific Ocean to Sunset Boulevard at Sunset Junction in Los Angeles. It passes t ...
, the former home of
Radio Recorders
Radio Recorders, Inc. was an American recording studio located in Los Angeles, California. During the 1940s and 1950s, Radio Recorders was one of the largest independent recording studios in the world. Notable musicians recorded at Radio Recorde ...
, a studio that recorded
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as Cultural impact of Elvis Presley, one of the most significant cultural figures of the ...
and
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made significant contributions to jazz music and pop ...
, among others.
Periodically, Deitch hosts artisan marketplaces in the back courtyard of his flagship Los Angeles location.
References
External links
* Maxwell Williams
"Inside and Out: Jeffrey Deitch's Life in the Art World" ''KCET Artbound'', 2019.
* Deborah Vankin
''Los Angeles Times'', September 19, 2018.
* Anna Louie Sussman
"How Jeffrey Deitch, Citibank, and Christo Created the Art Market as We Know It" ''
Artsy
Artsy, formally known as Art.sy Inc is a New York City based online art brokerage. Its main business is developing and hosting website for numerous galleries as well as selling art for them. It utilizes a search engine and database to draw conne ...
'', July 30, 2017
* Donatien Grau
"Jeffrey Deitch" ''
Flash Art International'', October 3, 2014.
* Carl Swanson
"Jeffrey Deitch Curates Jeffrey Deitch: The Return of the Art World's Most Essential Zelig" ''
New York Magazine
''New York'' is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.
Founded by Clay Felker and Milton Glaser in 1968 as a competitor to ''The New Yorker'' a ...
'', January 12, 2014.
* Calvin Tomkins
"A Fool For Art. Jeffrey Deitch and the exuberance of the art market" ''The New Yorker'', November 5, 2007.
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1952 births
American art dealers
Art in Greater Los Angeles
Directors of museums in the United States
Harvard Business School alumni
Living people
Wesleyan University alumni
People from Los Feliz, Los Angeles