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’

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

5 of the Best Artworks to Be Found at the Armory Show, From a $210,000 Livestream of the Sun to the ‘Amazing Black-Man’

It's well worth sticking your hands in your pockets and heading out to the fair this year.

By Andrew Goldstein, Mar 5, 2020

Art World

We’ll See You at the New York Art Fairs This Week. We Just Won’t Shake Your Hand (or Touch Your Face)

If you're heading out to the fairs too, here are 8 sensible safety tips when it comes to avoiding coronavirus.

By Artnet News, Mar 2, 2020

Market

Sotheby’s Will Hold Its Closely Watched Spring Hong Kong Art Auctions in New York as the Coronavirus Epidemic Rages On

The auction house will stage the auctions this April in New York.

By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 24, 2020

Art Fairs

One Year After an Eleventh-Hour Relocation, the Armory Show Is Reshuffling—on Purpose—for 2020

The fair welcomes 30 new exhibitors after a number of high-profile departures.

By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 12, 2019

Art Fairs

Despite a Strong Miami Fair, Art Basel’s Parent Company MCH Group Is Under Pressure to Cut Costs and Streamline Its Business

Internal communications show MCH is still struggling with budget issues.

By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 9, 2019

Art Fairs

How the Unhinged Reaction to Maurizio Cattelan’s Banana Revealed the Thin Line Between the Art World and Total Anarchy

Everyone from the Guerrilla Girls to Popeyes Chicken had something to say.

By Sarah Cascone, Dec 9, 2019

Events and Parties

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Art Critic Jerry Saltz and Artist Marilyn Minter Warn of ‘Creeping Puritanism’ in an ‘Unforgiving Art World’

Shepard Fairey, Shantell Martin, and Tali Lennox were among the guests for an intimate conversation between the two provocateurs.

By Sarah Cascone, Dec 9, 2019

Art Fairs

Maurizio Cattelan’s $120,000 Banana Was Ejected From Art Basel Miami Beach After Drawing Unsafe Crowds (and Getting Eaten)

The day after the stunt, the gallerist Emmanuel Perrotin took the artwork down for good a day early.

By Javier Pes, Dec 7, 2019

Art Fairs

4 Striking Trends at NADA Miami That Show Us Where the Art World—and Market—Are Headed Next

The fair this year included a healthy number of works priced at $10,000 and less.

By Julia Halperin & Tim Schneider, Dec 6, 2019

Art World

Wet Paint: Celebs Storm Art Basel Miami Beach, the KAWS Whisperer Revealed, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip

Which celebrities attended the Dior show at the Rubell Museum? What art did Justin Bieber choose to sell at auction? Read on for answers.

By Nate Freeman, Dec 5, 2019

Art Fairs

Cindy Sherman Has Unveiled Her First Non-Photographic Works at Art Basel Miami Beach: Tapestries Based on Her Instagram

The new experiments are selling like hotcakes at Metro Pictures.

By Sarah Cascone, Dec 5, 2019

Art Fairs

‘People Get Into the Rhythm’: Here’s What VIPs Were Buying During Art Basel Miami Beach’s Leisurely Preview Day

Miami retains its status as North America's most important art shopping destination.

By Eileen Kinsella & Nate Freeman, Dec 4, 2019