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...
New York Modern and Contemporary Auctions: The Best and Worst Surprises
Cattelan from the 2010s There are vogues in Contemporary art, and one might have thought that the New York-based Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan (born in 1960) was purely a product of the 2010s. After all, it was in 2016 that this ace of...
Sotheby’s and Christie’s in New York: from Duchamp to Cattelan, Monet to Magritte
https://youtube.com/shorts/sxNNq8lCSXk?si=0RW92w_x3qnCm0Jy Marcel Duchamp In 1964 Marcel Duchamp decided to reissue, in partnership with the Milanese dealer Arturo Schwartz, four “readymades” created in the 1910s. He was the one who invented...
Paris-Photo: All the Shades of Man Ray at the Grand Palais
What is a collection? “The collection is a work of art that is offered up for viewing. At first, we advance as though in a forest, not knowing where we are, with no points of reference. But we meet people along the way with whom we enter into...
Jean Fautrier: Bargain prices at a Paris auction for one of the modern geniuses of French painting
Profession of silent things The genius of artists lies in their ability to give form to the unspeakable. In this regard, the famous 17th-century French artist Nicolas Poussin found the right expression when he said, "I, who make a profession of...