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 18, 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 13, 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
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 11, 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
Art Fairs The 6 Best—and Riskiest—Artworks at Art Basel Unlimited, Where the Fair’s Supersized Artwork Shines Among the show-stopping works is a Buddhist take on casino capitalism. By Tim Schneider & Kate Brown, Jun 11, 2019
Art Fairs ‘It’s About Supporting the New’: LISTE Director Joanna Kamm on How She’s Updating the Fair and Reviewing Its Controversial Age Policy The former gallerist shares her goals for the Swiss fair. By Kate Brown, Jun 3, 2019
Art Fairs The #MeToo Movement Will Headline Art Basel Unlimited This Year With Andrea Bowers’s Epic Account of America’s Harassment Reckoning The artist's account of the first 100 men accused in the #MeToo movement will likely draw crowds to Art Basel's Unlimited section. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 16, 2019
People Liu Ye, a Chinese Artist Whose Paintings of Children Reference Western Art History, Will Now Be Represented by David Zwirner The gallery will show the painter's work at Art Basel Hong Kong later this month and in a 2020 solo show in New York. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 13, 2019
Galleries After a Cautious Start, Lévy Gorvy Doubles Down on Asia With Plans to Open a Hong Kong Gallery The gallery tested the market with a Shanghai office last year. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 28, 2018
Art World Art Basel Cities Creator Patrick Foret on How the Experimental New Initiative Works—Even Amid an Economic Crisis As Art Basel Cities takes shape in Buenos Aires during a currency collapse, Andrew Goldstein spoke to the visionary behind the project. By Andrew Goldstein, Sep 9, 2018
