Fitzrovia cemented as hot spot for London art galleries
is convinced that the area offers more for smaller commercial galleries than the East End. He recalls being introduced to Jerry Speyer, chairman of the New York Museum of Modern Art (Moma), by someone...
View ArticleHedge Funder Cohen, Basel VIPs Eye $78 Million Rothko
billionaires Steven Cohen and Jerry Speyer were among the VIPs browsing at the world’s biggest fair of modern and contemporary art, where a 1954 Mark Rothko abstract is for sale priced $78 million. The...
View ArticleInside Art: Large Works and Big Changes at Art Basel
contemporary art, including the collectors Eli Broad, the Los Angeles financier; Steven A. Cohen, the hedge fund billionaire; Jerry I. Speyer, the real estate developer and chairman of the Museum of...
View ArticleKoch, Kusama, Rennert, Rosenquist, Gillibrand in New York
Billionaire David Koch said Bo Derek came to mind as he watched the Paris Opera Ballet’s opening- night performance of “Bolero” at Lincoln Center. Standing on the promenade of the David H. Koch Theater...
View ArticleLe Vue From the Top
Speyer is next in line to take over the real-estate empire that was built by his grandfather Robert Tishman and his father, Jerry Speyer.Now, the co-chief executive of Tishman Speyer Properties is...
View Article$2 million prize announced for a cure for blindness by 2020
magnate, and Art Garfunkel, the song man who was part of the famous 1960s duo Simon and Garfunkel. The men were roommates at Columbia University. Dr. Peter McDonnell, director and William Holland...
View ArticleChina's next premier talks trade with U.S. CEOs
between our two countries. This is our third exchange event. The first time Jim Owens, Erskine Bowles, Dan Akerson, Jerry Speyer and I were in Beijing and the second time was about a year ago in...
View ArticleTishman Cuts the 'Financial Engineering'
say, 'Boy, they sure learned a lesson, and that'll never happen again,'" says Lawrence Longua, a professor at New York University's Schack Institute of Real Estate.The Government of Singapore...
View ArticleShaping the City's Skyline
starts getting a lot of attention, the elbows get a little sharper," says Barry Hersh, an associate professor at New York University's Schack Institute of Real Estate. But he adds that in an insular...
View ArticleArchitecture is always political
of East Germany sold pieces of it to people and entities across the globe; these particular slabs were purchased by Jerry Speyer, of NYC developer Tischman Speyer, and installed on East 53rd Street in...
View ArticleMoMA to Raze Ex-American Folk Art Museum Building
“Its heart is in the right time as well as the right place,” Herbert Muschamp wrote in his architecture review in The New York Times, calling the museum’s sculptural bronze facade “already a Midtown...
View ArticleLiving in a Housing Bubble
If Stuyvesant Town isn't your idea of Eden, then you didn't grow up there. Granted, everything seems grander when you are 5 years old: the trees leafier, the grass greener, the fountains splashier. But...
View ArticleMuseum of Modern Art Reconsiders Razing of Folk Art Museum
whether to keep any of the existing structure. “We’re going to try to create the best building we can create,” Jerry I. Speyer, the real estate developer and MoMA chairman, said in an interview....
View ArticleCritic’s Notebook: Defending the Former American Folk Art Museum Building
site, which would subsume the former museum. “Whether we include Folk Art or not, as is, is an open question,” stressed Jerry I. Speyer, the real estate developer and the Modern’s chairman. The remark...
View ArticleReal Estate Royalty: Mapping New York City's Billionaire Landlords
Here is a map of the real estate holdings of some of New York City's real estate royalty.
View ArticleTop Billionaire Political Donors in New York
Eleven billionaires and four billionaire-owned companies donated over $4 million to different political causes in New York last year
View ArticleSky Scrappers: World Trade Center Is A Risk For Everyone Involved -- Except...
The tallest, most meaningful building of this American century, the new World Trade Center, is about to open. Risks abound for everyone involved, except the billionaire Durst family, who initially...
View ArticleM&A Flashback: Rockefeller Center's Japanese Takeover
Japans 1980s buying spree of U.S. trophy assets culminated with the $1.4 billion takeover of Rockefeller Center. The deal landed in bankruptcy half a decade later. Now theres a new Asian buying binge...
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