Julian Schnabel Busies the Beach

Since 2005, Maybach, the century-older German luxury car manufacturer, has also pursued excellence in the world of contemporary art. They notably supported Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Gates in New York's Central Park; in 2009, the company collaborated with photographer David LaChapelle, who paid euphoric homage to the brand's 1932 model Zeppelin.
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A New World

Over the years, Martin Creed has made measuring materials his medium. Take, for instance, an artwork like Work No.201, half the air in a given space, for which Creed calculated the amount of air in a room, filled balloons with exactly half that amount, and delivered them into the space.
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Inside the Rubell Family

In the late 1960s, Don and Mera Rubell, a newlywed couple living on the upper eastside of New York City, began to share an enthusiasm for contemporary art. On weekends they trafficked the Manhattan grid visiting galleries uptown, in midtown, across-town and downtown. They were on the doorstep of the Paula Cooper Gallery when she opened her first space in 1968 in Soho. In the late 70s, they were drawn to a new group of emerging artists and musicians, and in the 80s frequented the legendary East Village gallery International with Monument, founded by artist friends Elizabeth Koury, Meyer Vaisman and Kent Klamen. By the 90s, they were making routine trips to London, and looked on as Charles Saatchi unveiled "The Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living," the now infamous shark-in-suspension by Damien Hirst. 45 years on and they've amassed a collection that numbers over 1,000 works of contemporary art from around the globe.

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William Pope.L, Yard by Yard

By the late 1950s, the Abstract Expressionist painter Allan Kaprow (1927–2006) began to consider the ‘action’ component of Action Painting far more important than the painting part. In 1959, the painter who set off countless gestures orchestrated 18 Happenings in 6 Parts, a series of actions seemingly spontaneous and unrelated, but actually tightly coordinated directives. In 1961, for Yard, Kaprow filled the backyard of an uptown art gallery, the Martha Jackson Gallery, with old tires and tar paper, giving birth to what we once called "happenings" and now have settled on as "performance art.”
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