On Wednesday, the US Treasury took the wraps off of a new $100 bill, which Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says would be exponentially more difficult for criminals to copy. But the rest of the $100 bill вЂ“ the most frequently counterfeited note, according to government officials вЂ“ is getting a radically revamped look. So does the official stamp of the Federal Reserve System. It had been renting space from the Royal Academy at 6 Burlington Gardens.ДЄnnabelle Selldorf, a New York architect, will be designing both spaces.Benjamin Franklin gets to stay.

And in London it will move back to its old quarters at Haunch of Venison Yard in Mayfair on Sept. 23 it will move to a new 6,000-square-foot space at 550 West 21st Street in Chelsea. It had been operating in galleries on the 20th and 21st floors of 1230 Avenue of the Americas, around the corner from ChristieвЂ™s New York headquarters. Now, in an effort to spiff up its image, ChristieвЂ™s has announced that it is opening a new space in New York. Then last summer the galleryвЂ™s founders, Harry Blain and Graham Southern, abruptly left the company. First there were questions about potential conflicts of interest for an auction house to own a gallery, especially when it comes to clients sharing or buying and selling at auction. ItвЂ™s been a bumpy road since 2007 when ChristieвЂ™s bought the contemporary-art gallery Haunch of Venison, with locations here and abroad. Some also incorporate an entirely new visual: miniature round-faced monsters. Some of these works include his letters, numbers and sign language. Martin, where he often escapes the harsh winters of Connecticut. Johns,вЂќ he used American Sign Language, making each letter by pressing his own hand into the wax.ДЄlso in the show will be a group of new drawings that Mr.

And instead of signing the work with his usual вЂњJ. Then, on the other side of the relief, he took the text and repeated it in the American Sign Language alphabet with stamps he made himself. Johns pressed the individual letters of van GoghвЂ™s sentences into the wax. One of the sculptures is a double-sided relief called вЂњFragment of a Letter,вЂќ incorporating text from a letter that van Gogh wrote to the artist Г‰mile Bernard and dealing with the idea of artists sticking together. вЂњI thought of making a cast of that sculpture in aluminum, so I started doing experiments,вЂќ Mr. These new works recall вЂњNumbers, 1964,вЂќ his only public artwork, in the lobby of the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center in which each number is a separate unit, fashioned from a material called Sculp-metal. In some he has added elements like impressions of newsprint, his own hand or a cast of the foot of his friend Merce Cunningham.

JohnsвЂ™s signature grid of numerals - 0 through 9 - which he made first in wax, with varying surfaces and textures. ThatвЂ™s all.вЂќДЄn exhibition of 11 new sculptures and 20 recent works on paper that opens May 7 at Matthew MarksвЂ™s 22nd Street gallery may at first seem like classics from the past, but on closer inspection there is much that is new about this work. вЂњIt can only be seen now, in this museum,вЂќ he said. Once the show is over, the money will be his for the spending. One obvious image that comes to mind is WarholвЂ™s 1962 silk-screen painting вЂњ200 One Dollar Bills,вЂќ which sold for $43.7 million at SothebyвЂ™s two years ago.Д«ut Mr. Feldmann acknowledged that his installation had its roots in the Pop Art of the 1960s and вЂ™70s. But IвЂ™m sure that wonвЂ™t happen.вЂќДЄnd although the intent may be different, even Mr. вЂњIn the next room you find $10 million paintings, and nobody is stealing them,вЂќ Mr.

Since the money is there for the taking, officials at the Guggenheim are planning to have extra guards on duty and security cameras keeping a close watch on visitors. Feldmann said it was an entirely pragmatic decision: вЂњItвЂ™s easier because they only will need one pin.вЂќ He has instructed the museum to tack the bills up vertically, not horizontally, and they will have to overlap to get the entire $100,000 on the walls.

New 100 dollar bill scan for artwork