Galleries In Germany’s Latest Bailout for the Arts, the Government Is Spending $18.7 Million to Keep Commercial Galleries Afloat The federal government is releasing funds specifically aimed at helping commercial galleries with their early 2021 programming. By Kate Brown, 1 hour ago
Art Fairs From New Faces to Hug Art, Here Are 5 Major Trends to Be Found in Art Basel’s New Online Fair Devoted to Work Made During Lockdown Our market team scoured the digital aisles so you don't have to. By Artnet News, 3 days ago
Art Fairs Can Relational Aesthetics Survive the Social Distancing Era? Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija Is Giving It an Innovative Try in Berlin The artist's latest project is part of Art Basel's fall online viewing rooms. By Kate Brown, Sep 24, 2020
Market Former Top Christie’s Executive Rebecca Wei Is Crossing Over Into the Gallery World, Joining Lévy Gorvy Asia as a Partner The hire comes as the Asian art market struggles to rebound from the paralyzing effects of the lockdown. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 24, 2020
Auctions Will This Rare Botticelli Portrait Reset the Old Masters Market? A Renaissance ‘Golden Boy’ Could Fetch $80 Million Sotheby's is offering a rare Botticelli portrait with an extensive museum exhibition history and an $80 million estimate. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 24, 2020
Auctions ‘Business as Usual Went Right Out the Window’: How Lockdown Forced Auction Houses Into the Future—for Good Despite suffering a nosedive in revenue, here’s how the biggest auction houses in the world are evolving to survive. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 24, 2020
Auctions A Hedge-Fund Manager Who Once Tried to Acquire Sotheby’s Has Just Bought His Way Into a Top Job at the Auction House The increasing financialization of the art market makes Klabin a solid fit for Sotheby's. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 23, 2020
Market ‘The Future of the Art World Is Direct-to-Consumer’: As the Market Shifts Online, a Growing Number of Artists Are Thriving Without the Middle Man Emerging artists, in particular, are having luck selling on Instagram. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 23, 2020
Art Fairs Austria’s Biggest Art Fair Is Forging Ahead With an In-Person Edition Despite Growing Restrictions on Travel Dealers showing at Vienna Contemporary are collaborating like never before as they leap over logistical hurdles. By Kate Brown, Sep 22, 2020
Art Fairs For the First Time, TEFAF Will Allow Digital Vetting of Artworks as It Plans for an Online Edition to Replace Its Fall New York Fair To appeal to collectors who have tired of scrolling through screens, each dealer will present only a single "masterpiece" for the fair's online edition. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 21, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Hopes Banksy’s Painting About the ‘Excesses of Consumerism’ Will Generate $6 Million in Excess Consumerism at Auction Banksy's 'Show Me the Monet' will appear at a virtual Modern and contemporary art auction in Paris and London next month. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 18, 2020
Art Fairs Hauser & Wirth, Thaddaeus Ropac, and Other Galleries Just Signed on to an Upstart Digital-Only Art Fair Opening in October Daata Fair runs opposite digital Frieze week. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 18, 2020
Galleries Undeterred By a Global Crisis, Brazilian Dealer Jaqueline Martins Is Forging Ahead With Plans to Open a Brussels Outpost Next Month The long-planned expansion to Europe has come to fruition, thanks to a bit of patience and some respite from a busy fair calendar. By Kate Brown, Sep 18, 2020
Art Fairs Miami’s Art Fairs Can Account for 50 Percent of a Gallery’s Annual Sales. Here’s How Dealers Are Coping With Their Cancellation While some in the trade focus on their bottom lines, others see benefits to slowing down. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 18, 2020
Auctions In an Unprecedented Move, the Brooklyn Museum Is Selling Off Works by Cranach, Courbet, and Other Artists to Ease Its Financial Woes The museum is taking advantage of new emergency regulations from the Association of Museum Directors. By Artnet News, Sep 16, 2020
