Samuel Leuenberger Tapped as New Curator for Parcours Section of Art Basel
Art Basel has named independent Swiss curator Samuel Leuenberger as the curator of its Parcours section, which is devoted to site-specific works that engage with the city of Basel. Florence Derieux had...
View ArticleHere Is the 2016 Exhibitor List for Art Basel
Well, what do you know, it’s the second day of February and we’re already talking about something that’s not happening until June. Usually a lead-up time this big is a bit unnerving, because June is so...
View ArticleArt Basel Announces Film Program Featuring Jonas Mekas and Pierre Bismuth
It was in the cold of early February when we received word about the slate of galleries participating in Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland. Now that we’re closer to that ever-important fair, there’s...
View ArticleIn Basel, Liste Gets Older, But the Artists Stay the Same Age
Liste, the satellite fair that had its VIP opening this morning in Basel, Switzerland, calls itself “The Young Art Fair in Basel,” and it goes to great pains to legitimize this claim. For instance, not...
View ArticleFlying Suitcases, Mimes, and a Collector’s House: A Quick Spin Through the...
The Unlimited sector of Art Basel is devoted to large-scale installation and works that “transcend the classical art show stand.” The name is a hyperbole—as it does contain walls at some points—but it...
View ArticleArt Basel Begins, as the World’s Primo Dealers Fight a Cooling Market
With market prognosticators fearing a tepid start to Art Basel amid an international slowdown in art sales, the world’s biggest galleries shipped a ballsy set of offerings to Switzerland. On Tuesday...
View ArticleSara Cwynar and Mary Reid Kelley Named Winners of Baloise Art Prize
The winners of the Baloise Art Prize, an annual award sponsored by European financial services provider Baloise Group, were announced at Art Basel earlier today. Artists Sara Cwynar and Mary Reid...
View ArticleClare McAndrew, Leading Art Market Economist, on Her Defection to Art Basel
It’s not so often that a bit of news about a market report can overshadow the opening of Art Basel, the cornerstone of the fair circuit that’s become so integral to the business of buying and selling...
View Article‘I’m Like an Anthropologist’: Dinner With Film Legend Jonas Mekas During His...
“No, I’m not tired—I don’t know what being tired is!” said Jonas Mekas, the 93-year-old artist and filmmaker, a few hours after flying into Basel, Switzerland, from his home in New York. It was...
View ArticleKa-Ching! Sol Calero Erects a Venezuelan Currency Exchange Booth in Basel’s...
If you think Art Basel needs more places where you can sit in a palm tree-laden lobby and watch telenovelas, you should make your way to the fair’s Statements sector. There, the booth of London-based...
View ArticleDarren Bader’s Video at Art Basel Waxes Rhapsodic on Elton John and Billy Joel
The Darren Bader video at the booth of his London gallery Sadie Coles HQ starts innocently enough: a computer-animated helicopter flies out of a giant computer-animated mouth, with some string trailing...
View ArticleBrian Belott’s Stone Calculators Have Their Star Turn at the Gavin Brown’s...
On Wednesday night at the Grand Hotel Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland, Gavin Brown was sitting with the collector Richard Chang, the artist Dustin Yellin, and Nelson Mandela’s son, Kweku Mandela. At a...
View Article‘Zoom Pavilion’ at Unlimited Gives Art Basel a Real-Time Look at Surveillance
When I finally got wifi Friday morning at a hotel in the middle of the Black Forest in Germany, I opened my Instagram account and saw that I was now being followed by an account by the name...
View ArticleAdrien Brody, ‘Artist,’ Charms Pace Gallery, Others Amid Perplexing Art Basel...
Usually the token Hollywood star to grace this stately Rhineland town with its presence during Art Basel is Leonardo DiCaprio, and when he comes, he’s actually here on business: he’s one of the world’s...
View ArticleScenes From Art Basel Miami Beach, Part 2
As Art Basel Miami Beach opened to VIP collectors today, politically-oriented art could be seen throughout the convention center, some of it brand new. See more in Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, and Part...
View ArticleScenes From NADA Miami Beach, Part 1
The NADA Miami Beach art fair opened yesterday to VIP cardholders and press. Nate Freeman’s full report on the action is here. Below, a slide show from around the fair.
View ArticleScenes From NADA Miami Beach, Part 2
NADA Art fair opened Thursday to VIP cardholders and press and continues through Sunday. Below, a slideshow of the action around the fair. See more in Part 1 and read all about it in Nate Freeman’s...
View ArticleScenes From Art Basel Miami Beach, Part 5
The parties, dinners, talks, and performances are continuing in Miami Beach as Art Basel and its satellite events enter the weekend. Below, a look around some of the events. See more in Part 1, Part 2,...
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