Daily Management Review
Art & Art Market

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Retrogaming: A Booming Market

Eight years after starting up in France, the retrogaming (also known as classic gaming) market is consolidating and setting record sales. The tenth art is gradually carving out a niche in the auction room. With a "Legend of Zelda" cartridge for a Nintendo console fetching no less than $870,000, and...

Spotlight on Baccarat

The glassworks' glittering crystal chandelier shared the billing with paintings by Francis Picabia and William Adolphe Bouguereau. With over 900 lots proposed over two days, this sale provided a chance to redecorate the home, starting with this splendid Baccarat chandelier, which sold for €51,520....

Hair Ye, Hair Ye!

When wigs came into fashion under Louis XIII, it was for an obvious reason: to hide the royal baldness! It was Louis XIII  who made wig-wearing stylish in France: in the 1630s the king, whose entourage copied him by wearing their hair long, went prematurely bald. He started wearing wigs...

Art Market Overview: Toyin Ojih Odutola's

With MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago recently acquiring some of her works, Nigerian-born artist Toyin Ojih Odutola is enjoying a meteoric rise in the auction house at age 36. Though her name only appeared in the auction world three years ago, her record already stands at $833,000 for a 161 x...

Quentin Bajac: From MoMA to the Jeu de Paume, the Image in All Its Forms

Two and a half years after taking up his post at the Jeu de Paume, the new director talks about his broad and varied concept of photography, his development strategy and his initial assessment after the pandemic. Before arriving at the Jeu de Paume in March 2019, you worked at the Musée d'Orsay and...

Niki de Saint Phalle at the Galerie Mitterrand

The Galerie Mitterrand in Paris bills its new show as an echo of the "Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960's" exhibition at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. The exhibition features 17 lithographs—from the Nana Power portfolio (1970)—two large Nana sculptures in the round and a small Nana...

The Lacquered Felines of Jean Dunand, Master of Art Deco

Making their debut on the market, these three big cats date from a turning point in the artist's career and boast a rare combination of two lacquer techniques. Three leopards are drinking from a stream. The one on the left seems concerned with something happening beyond the scene. Perhaps it has...

The Art Market Day 2021: Energy-Guzzling NFTs vs. Market Ecology

On November 16, NFTs, cryptoart and the art market’s environmental impact were the themes of "The Art Market Day" at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. After a year of online viewing rooms (OVRs) and closed-door webcast auctions in 2020, the third edition of "The Art Market Day" focused on a burning...

Fourth Sale of the Kahn Collection: Old Masters, 19th-Century Books and Surrealism

Before it closes in the first half of 2022, the Kahn library will be providing a fourth chapter full of discoveries, with Old Masters and books, manuscripts, photographs, drawings, paintings and collages from the 19th and 20th centuries. "A Thousand Nights of Dreams," the title given to this...

Gallerist Patrick Lee Appointed Head of Frieze Seoul

Frieze has just named Patrick Lee director of its new art fair in Seoul, which is expected to take place in September 2022. The current executive director of Seoul’s oldest gallery, Hyundai, which Park Myung-Ja founded in 1970, was formerly a partner and head of One and J., a space Mr. Lee joined...
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