Hasta La Ideas

And a ray of sunshine breaks through the economic gloom: top contemporary and modern art gallery Hauser & Wirth is expanding. In the wake of last month’s debut of Swallow Street, its London exhibition space for emerging artists, Hauser & Wirth has announced that it will open a New York outpost on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in September. The new gallery is being designed by architect Annabelle Selldorf, who also created Hauser & Wirth’s spectacular spaces in London and Zurich.

Located at 32 East 69th Street, once home to the pioneering Martha Jackson Gallery, Hauser & Wirth New York will have four glorious—and contiguous—floors of exhibition space. The building’s first two floors are currently occupied by Zwirner & Wirth (also designed by Selldorf), the partnership between David Zwirner and Iwan Wirth that will close after the current Alice Neel show, which is up through June 20. Selldorf will soon begin reconfiguring the building into a coherent whole for Hauser & Wirth, a press representative for the gallery tells us.

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