Art Fairs The Frieze Art Fair Reveals Plans for Online Viewing Rooms in Lieu of Its Cancelled New York Edition, Including a New AR Tool to Help Collectors Shop The platform was originally intended to debut alongside the physical event. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 14, 2020
Market Lisson Gallery Has Launched a New Augmented Reality Platform That Allows You to Test-Drive Art in Your Home Before You Buy It Massimo De Carlo, too, is getting into the virtual reality game with a new platform launching tomorrow. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 13, 2020
Art Fairs NADA Chicago, Which Was Set to Open in Late September, Has Been Cancelled as Art-Fair Calendar Shakeups Extend to the Fall EXPO Chicago, however, is still scheduled to take place. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 10, 2020
Auctions Do You Dream of Using a Hippo as a Bathtub (or Toilet)? Now Sotheby’s Is Offering a Full Les Lalanne Hippo Bathroom Set for $2.7 Million The hippo bathtub, sink, and bidet is one of the highlights of Sotheby's design sale in Paris this June. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 10, 2020
Galleries ‘This Happened Very, Very Fast’: Faced With Closures, Galleries Are Being Forced to Build Online Viewing Rooms Overnight—Often From Scratch Galleries once resistant to selling art online—and even some who embraced it—are reinventing their cyberspace-based marketplaces. By Nate Freeman, Apr 9, 2020
Market What Makes an Effective Online Viewing Room? Here Are 4 Essential Questions Every Art Dealer Needs to Consider Before Launching One Dealers worldwide are turning to the web to sell art with renewed urgency. By Tim Schneider, Apr 9, 2020
Galleries A Hardscrabble Initiative Is Bringing More Than a Dozen Galleries From Vienna Together to Launch the City’s First Virtual Art Week A Berlin edition is set to launch on April 11. By Kate Brown, Apr 8, 2020
Analysis ‘Bergamo Is a Besieged Territory’: Dealers, Artists, and Curators on How Northern Italy’s Art Scene Is Surviving Under Its Second Month of Lockdown If Milan offers a window into what other cities may experience in a few weeks, the takeaway is that the art world will always find a way to connect. By Kate Brown, Apr 8, 2020
Galleries With the Launch of Two More Online Sales Initiatives, Mega-Gallerist David Zwirner Says He Is Already Envisioning Less Need for Art Fairs Zwirner's "Studio" platform kicks off with Wolfgang Tillmans, while its "Exceptional Works" secondary-market venue debuts with Josef Albers. By Julia Halperin, Apr 6, 2020
Market The National Gallery Restituted a Picasso to a Jewish Banker’s Heirs Last Week. This Week, Gagosian Is Already Offering It for $10 Million The museum returned the painting, though denied the validity of the family’s restitution claim. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 6, 2020
Market As Asia’s Art Market Begins to Reopen, Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Three of Its Most Vibrant (and Underrated) Art Capitals Asia's art scene has a whole lot more going for it than just Hong Kong. By Vivienne Chow, Apr 6, 2020
Auctions Amid Dire Economic News, Sotheby’s Just Set a New Record for an Online Design Auction With a Surprisingly Strong $4 Million Sale The sale provided a bit of a positive note after the company furloughed 12 percent of its staff. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 3, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s and Christie’s Place Hundreds of Workers on Furlough and Cut Executive Pay as Art Businesses Feel the Impact of Coronavirus Postponements Sotheby's is furloughing approximately 12 percent of its staff. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 2, 2020
Market 7 Hard-Won Lessons From Art Dealers Who Survived Past Recessions on How to Navigate a Financial Downturn We canvassed insiders for advice about what to do in the months ahead. By Kate Brown & Eileen Kinsella, Apr 2, 2020
Analysis LACMA’s $750 Million Renovation Was Once Hailed as a Powerful Vision of What a 21st-Century Museum Could Be. Now, It’s a Lightning Rod How the debate over LACMA's expansion became one about what a museum should be, who decides—and who should pay for it. By Catherine Wagley, Apr 1, 2020
