With the Fate of the Fair in Question as the Virus Overwhelms Florida, Art Basel Miami Beach Just Gave Dealers More Time to Commit

Art Fairs

With the Fate of the Fair in Question as the Virus Overwhelms Florida, Art Basel Miami Beach Just Gave Dealers More Time to Commit

The fair says it is "deeply committed" to holding the event in December "if at all feasible."

By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 8, 2020

Art Fairs

A Crafty Swiss Financier Is Reportedly Trying to Gather Investors to Wrest Art Basel Away From Its Parent Company, the MCH Group

But the MCH Group has its own plans.

By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 24, 2020

Art Fairs

High-Octane Sales During the VIP Preview of Art Basel’s Second Online Fair Solidify the ‘New Normal’ of the Socially Distanced Art Market

The online stand-in for the marquee Swiss fair saw familiar galleries striking plenty of deals under $1 million, but few true fireworks.

By Tim Schneider & Eileen Kinsella, Jun 18, 2020

Art Fairs

Art Basel Says It’s ‘Too Early’ to Confirm Its Marquee Fair Will Take Place This Fall, But Promises More Online Offerings

The fair's latest missive to exhibitors also offers a series of perks.

By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 27, 2020

Galleries

Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—at the Online Editions of the Dallas Art Fair, Art Basel Hong Kong, and David Zwirner’s ‘Platform’

We've adapted our art-fair sales column for our new virtual world.

By Eileen Kinsella & Tim Schneider, Apr 23, 2020

Art Fairs

Art Basel’s Parent Company MCH Group Has Laid Off 150 Staffers as the Pandemic Sends Shockwaves Through the Event Industry

Major watchmakers have defected en masse from the company's flagship fair Baselworld.

By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 15, 2020

Art Fairs

How Is Art Basel’s Experiment With Online Sales Going? Early Indications Suggest Mega-Galleries Are Making Out Just Fine

But smaller galleries are noticeably quiet.

By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 20, 2020

Art Fairs

Tickets to the Art Basel Inside Conference in Abu Dhabi, a ‘New Kind of Experience,’ Cost $15,000 (Without Airfare)

That's more than TED's marquee conference—but less than Davos.

By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 11, 2019

Art Fairs

Art Basel Is Organizing a Three-Day Sustainability Summit in Abu Dhabi in Its Latest Effort to Evolve Beyond Art Fairs

Art Basel Inside is the art-fair company's latest project.

By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 9, 2019

Opinion

After Scooping the World on ‘Salvator Mundi,’ Kenny Schachter Has More to Reveal About the Leonardo—and Art Basel’s Biggest Deals, Too

How can Kenny top his last column? Read on and find out.

By Kenny Schachter, Jun 19, 2019

Art Fairs

‘Everyone at a Place Like Art Basel Is Complicit’: Artists May Be Making Art About Climate Change, But Nobody at the Fair Wants to Talk About It

The theme is in the air, but the art fair is only beginning to tackle how business must change.

By Kate Brown, Jun 14, 2019

Art Fairs

7 of the Best Works at Art Basel, From an $18.5 Million Portrait of Giacometti’s Mistress to a White-Hot Painting by a New Market Star

Here are some of the standout pieces in this year's fair.

By Andrew Goldstein, Jun 13, 2019

Here Are 10 Booths You Won’t Want to Miss at Art Basel 2019

Whether you're seeking megawatt blockbusters or long-forgotten masters, we've got your must-sees covered.

By Katie White, Jun 12, 2019

Art Fairs

Hate Art Fairs? There’s an Art Fair for That! Meet June, an Experimental New Satellite in Basel

The founders of the selling exhibition have created a booth-free alternative to Basel's overcrowded art fairs inside a Herzog & de Meuron building.

By Kate Brown, Jun 12, 2019

Galleries

Yusaku Maezawa and Other Global Collectors Snap Up Millions of Dollars in Art From David Zwirner’s Virtual ‘Basel Online’ Gallery

The digital sales came in fast and furious even as the gallery sold more art—including a $20 million Gerhard Richter—in the physical fair.

By Andrew Goldstein, Jun 12, 2019