https://youtu.be/uoNuSN7Ap3s Audacious and monumental Picture a colossal woman, 25 meters long and 9 meters wide, figured three-dimensionally in rounded, simplified shapes and covered in bright, contrasting colors. She is lying on her...
Art Basel in Basel: A Market Between Uncertainty and Resilience
Shielded form the world's Chaos? As Art Basel in Basel opened on June 17, with its festive spirit, endless dinners, and an exceptional program of museum exhibitions held across the city, one might have thought for a moment that the art market...
The Daguerreotype: the First Real Image Ever Made of Oneself in Human History
Capturing reality Imagine this: Up until that point, aside from a mirror’s reflection, no human being had ever seen their own precise and real image. Then suddenly, there was news of a kind of mirror that could capture your likeness and...
New York: The $70 Million Giacometti Flop and the Rise of Women Artists
https://youtu.be/-u4wjReoASs Missed rendezvous The art market is a sprawling machine that brings together works of the mind—paintings, sculptures—with people who are so moved by such expressions that they are willing to invest significant sums...
Giacometti, Fontana, Cézanne…The Season’s Treasures in a Market Under Self-examination
Uncertainty What value do we place on art in times of immense uncertainty? Will Modern and Contemporary paintings and sculptures now be seen as safe havens? Or will they be cast aside due to income losses, especially on the stock market? These...
Art Dubai: The Fast Growing Art Bubble
Middle East Buying art—especially contemporary art—is an activity requiring financial ease as well as a calm state of mind. Wars, stock market downturns, shifting taxes… It’s fair to say this isn’t the most favorable time. And yet, a few...
ARCO Madrid: Selling for Less, to Sell More
Not in a buying mood Amid global upheavals, even the wealthiest collectors are not in a buying mood. So, what can be done in a rather sluggish contemporary art market? Two strategies can be observed amongst the world's most powerful galleries....
Is It a Mountain or a Mathematical Curve? AI and Generative Art: Pioneering Works Up for Auction
Artificial intelligence Through March 5, Christie’s is hosting an online-only sale that began on February 20, featuring 34 works of art produced exclusively using artificial intelligence. This unprecedented auction, titled “Augmented...
Marrakech, Gateway to the African Art Market
Arab World, focal point As the Chinese art market becomes increasingly insular, it is the Arab world which has become the new focal point, the new El Dorado of the contemporary art market. In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the second iteration of the...
Nan Goldin in Berlin: A Great Artist Loses Steam
https://youtu.be/YD5pYQiT1D4?si=ILLi5ZhibqJP6aPN Great artist A “great artist.” When a painter, photographer or sculptor is associated with this label, it’s because they gained recognition by inventing their own universe. The American artist...
The Remains of the Lagerfeld and Saint Laurent Collections
Global elegance https://youtu.be/wJTfJ8AeCjg?si=TYIBI3YQnZZZ6WH1 For a long time, the ecosystem of global elegance was driven from Paris by two rival clans. On one side was Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008), founder of his eponymous fashion house...
Art Basel Miami Beach: Tremors of the Post-Election Market
Frivolity The situation is this: Miami, the famous Floridian resort city synonymous with frivolity, has become, against all odds, the epicenter of a very serious American art market. This phenomenon occurs annually during the first week of...