Art Fairs After Initially Hoping to Stick to Its September Opening, EXPO Chicago Has Been Postponed Until April 2021 Organizers of NADA Chicago, an EXPO satellite, pulled the plug on their event last month. By Sarah Cascone, May 12, 2020
Auctions Allan Schwartzman, a Respected Market Guru, Is Leaving the Sotheby’s Auction House Amid a Continuing Staff Shakeup He will continue to work with the house as a consultant. By Eileen Kinsella, May 12, 2020
Galleries David Zwirner Is Opening Up Its Online Viewing Room to 12 Galleries in Brussels and Paris in Its Latest Effort to Boost Smaller Dealers It is the fourth iteration of the gallery's ongoing Platform initiative. By Naomi Rea, May 12, 2020
Market Art Fairs Used to Be Their Portal to the World. Now Galleries in Serbia, Romania, Greece, Hungar, and Other Southeastern European Countries Are Uniting Online "Not Cancelled East x South" runs May 17-19. By Artnet News, May 11, 2020
Art Fairs Taipei Dangdai’s New Online Platform Aims to Keep International Dealers Connected to the Asian Art Market as the Region Slowly Reopens Dozens of dealers who showed at the most recent Taipei Dangdai art fair in January are taking part in the initiative. By Eileen Kinsella, May 8, 2020
Auctions This Rare Mannerist Painting by a 17th-Century Italian Nun Just Broke a Record at Sotheby’s, Selling for 14 Times Its High Estimate A collector snapped up the picture for more than $260,000 in the auction house's online Old Masters sale. By Sarah Cascone, May 8, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Is Hoping for a Slam Dunk With a Pair of Game-Worn Michael Jordan Nikes That Could Fetch $150,000 Michael Jordan wore the signed shoes during his first season in the NBA. By Sarah Cascone, May 8, 2020
Galleries As Switzerland Slowly Reopens, Dealer Eva Presenhuber Is Forging Ahead With Plans to Open a New Zurich Gallery Next Month "There was no going back," Presenhuber says of the complicated timing. By Eileen Kinsella, May 8, 2020
Art Fairs What’s It Like to Actually Shop at a Virtual Art Fair? We Zoomed Along With a Collector to See What He Thinks of Frieze’s Inaugural Online Edition Following Chris Birchby gives a sense of the strengths and weaknesses of perusing the aisles remotely. By Tim Schneider, May 7, 2020
Art Fairs Here Are the 6 Most Expensive Works at the Frieze Art Fair’s First Virtual Edition (and 5 Great Affordable Ones, Too) The online version of Frieze New York allows users to sort by price. So we did. By Eileen Kinsella, May 7, 2020
Galleries What’s It Like to See Art in the Era of Social Distancing? We Crawled Berlin’s Newly Reopened Gallery Scene to Find Out There's a cautiously optimistic buzz in the air in the German capitlal. By Kate Brown, May 7, 2020
Market Paris Was Emerging as Europe’s Next Big Art-Market Hub. Post-Lockdown, Can It Maintain the Momentum? French galleries are itching to reopen their doors to the public. But will it make up for lost time? By Naomi Rea, May 7, 2020
Galleries Dealer Thaddaeus Ropac Will Use His Biggest Paris Gallery to Stage an Emergency Selling Show of Young Regional Artists to Support the Emerging Art Scene This September, the gallery will lend its space and sales infrastructure to emerging artists. By Naomi Rea, May 7, 2020
Art Fairs Frieze New York’s Online Edition Launches With Seven-Figure Sales to VIPs as Art Dealers Hustle to Get a Handle on Virtual Fairs Mega-dealers report robust sales at the first virtual edition of Frieze New York, while smaller galleries saw a slower pace. By Eileen Kinsella, May 6, 2020
Market When an Art Collective Cut Up a $30,000 Damien Hirst Spot Print, the Spots Sold Out. Now the Leftover Paper Just Sold Too—for $261,000 The collective also sold the 88 individual spots cut out from the print individually. By Taylor Dafoe, May 6, 2020
