Folks, this is a public service announcement reminding you that if you want to pick up some free stuff at Jonathan Horowitz’s Free Store during Art Basel, you will have to bring some stuff to drop off at the store. Got that straight? Now, while it is technically true that bundling up all your crappy Read More
Art Basel, which has three annual contemporary fairs to its name, in Basel, Switzerland; Miami Beach, Fla.; and Hong Kong, announced today that is planning to make some changes to the organization of its leadership, with Marc Spiegler, who currently co-directs the Basel and Miami Beach editions with Annette Schönholzer, being promoted to director of the complete fair trinity. Read More
It’s raining money over there at Art Basel! Someone just snapped up a Richter that was reportedly priced above $20 million at Pace’s booth. On the more modest end of the spectrum, young artists Simon Denny and Karsten Födinger are set to receive checks for 30,000 Swiss francs ($31,300) as the winner’s of the fair’s annual Baloise Art Prize, which goes to the best contributions to its Art Statements section. Read More
With the 43rd edition of Art Basel set to open this week, art-market reporter Georgina Adam has written a great piece for the Financial Times about the workings of the fair’s selection committee, the group of dealers that decides the event’s list of exhibitors each year. Since galleries stand to net a huge portion of their annual revenue at Basel, the selection process is an understandably tense affair. Read More
The Art Basel team is wasting no time in revealing what it has in the works for the Art HK fair, which it recently announced will operate under the Basel name in its next edition, running May 23–26, 2013. (Art Basel’s parent company bought a 60 percent share in Art HK’s parent company last year.) Read More
David Zwirner gallery is bringing a lot of fine art to Art Basel next week. So much, in fact, that it has printed an entire separate catalogue to advertise it. Read More
Annette Schönholzer and Marc Spiegler, the co-directors of the annual Art Basel fairs, announced today that they are readying a Hong Kong edition for May, 2013, which will replace the city-state’s popular and fast-rising Art Hong Kong fair. (Last year, the Switzerland–based MCH Group, which owns the Art Basel fairs, grabbed a 60 percent stake in Asian Art Fairs Ltd., the parent company of Art HK.) Read More
