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On Art Basel’s First Day, Sales Roll In and the Art World Breathes a Sigh of...
On Tuesday, the first day of VIP previews for the bellwether Art Basel fair in Switzerland, several dealers admitted they had waited with bated breath for how the day would turn out amid the apparent...
View ArticleCurator Stefanie Hessler Talks Pirate Symbols and Distilleries for Art...
With the 2024 edition of Art Basel in Switzerland now officially underway, one component that often gets overlooked—amid the frenzy over artworks selling for multimillion-dollar sums on the first...
View ArticleThe Best Booths at Art Basel, From a Revisionist ‘Origine du Monde’ to...
Art Basel, the world’s biggest art fair, launched its 2024 edition with a busy VIP preview day on Tuesday. Some 285 galleries were on hand, including 22 first-time participants in the Galleries,...
View ArticleArt Basel’s Maike Cruse on the Swiss Fair’s Endurance, What Not to Miss, and...
It has been just over a year since Noah Horowitz tapped Maike Cruse to lead Art Basel’s flagship fair in Basel, Switzerland. Just enough time, according to Cruse, to plan and execute her first Art...
View ArticleThe Best Booths at Liste, from Felted Tableaux to Dystopic Drawings of...
At the Liste Art Fair in Basel, the cutting-edge, younger satellite event held adjacent to Art Basel, several exhibitors shared concerns about a market slow-down, which has particularly hit their...
View ArticleA Long Night Out During Art Basel Yields Run-ins With Collectors, Celebs, and...
For those that arrived to Switzerland on Monday, ahead of Art Basel’s first VIP preview, there were no shortage of glitzy parties to attend. As art economist Magnus Resch told me on Tuesday, he had...
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Vilhelm Hammershøi’s Paintings Still Thrum with Uneasy Tension More than a...
At the opening for Hauser & Wirth’s new gallery in Basel earlier this week, a few people leaned to whisper that they had never heard of Vilhelm Hammershøi, whose museum-quality exhibition...
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Descend Into the Bunker at June Art Fair, Where Cool Alternative Vibes Abound
Less than 200 meters (or about 650 feet) away from Art Basel is the June Art Fair, an alternative, intergenerational, independent platform that is nestled in a concrete bunker. Founded in 2019 by...
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At Basel’s First Digital Art Fair, Collectors and Artists Debate Whether the...
While collectors arrived at Art Basel last week dressed to the nines and ready to splash millions on everything from a Joan Mitchell diptych ($18 million at David Zwirner) to an Ed Ruscha painting...
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A Month from Art Basel, Small and Midsize Galleries Are Adapting to a...
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. If one were to go by the first-day...
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