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
Art Fairs A Saudi Artist Is Debuting a Daring New Work About Murdered Dissident Journalist Jamal Khashoggi at Art Basel Abdulnasser Gharem, a former lieutenant colonel in the Saudi Arabian army, is showing a provocative work at the fair. By Kate Brown, Jun 11, 2019
Galleries Gagosian Will Open a Permanent Outpost in Basel—the 17th Location in the Gallery’s Growing Global Empire The new branch will be located in the same space where the gallery is holding an Art Basel-adjacent pop-up show. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 11, 2019
