In January 2022, the Paris art market landscape was suddenly upended, when the FIAC was replaced by Art Basel, under the aegis of the MCH group. An initial assessment of the eagerly awaited first edition of Paris+ in late October.
Deprived of the fair in 2020 and 2021, art lovers can look forward to the second edition of District 13 this year, which is refocusing on French galleries and is once again being held at the Hôtel Drouot.
Covid’s aftershocks have profoundly reshaped the art fair landscape. All the operators have revised their strategy for September 2022. What will the autumn fair schedule look like in Paris?
For its 67th edition, BRAFA is leaving Tour & Taxis for Brussels Expo, while maintaining its highly successful eclectic, across-the-board approach.
Foundations, museums and collectors showed a keen appetite for the 40th anniversary of the Spanish fair, which took place from February 23 to 27.
Given the resurgence of the pandemic and new variants of Covid-19, the art market is reorganizing its agenda for the first half of the year with intensified frequency. Clashes in store.
A new director and a new location for one of the most eagerly-awaited fairs in the western US.
You’d almost have to see it to believe it. Despite a welter of postponements and cancellations, Master Drawings New York is indeed taking place until Saturday, January 29, in galleries lying mostly between Madison Avenue and 5th Avenue.
Though the two previous editions were canceled, the third edition of District 13—purely French this year—now consolidates the happy marriage between street art and Drouot.
Frieze has just named Patrick Lee director of its new art fair in Seoul, which is expected to take place in September 2022.
The traditional procession of December fairs in Miami is back, apart from the satellite fairs Aqua Art Miami and Volta, postponed to 2022 in response to post-epidemic recovery.
Following Art Paris, Photo London and the Armory Show, it is Art Basel’s turn to return to the fray from September 23 – 26.
In association with objets d’art experts, the 33rd Paris Rare Book Fair promises to whet our curiosity—a welcome antidote to the ongoing health crisis.
We spoke to Nazy Vassegh in advance of the opening of the inaugural Eye of the Collector at the historic Two Temple Place in the middle of London. From auction house to advisor to art fair CEO, she has created a new model for collectors, where the artworks take center stage.
Art Paris is opening the art fair season in France, attracting a rising number of galleries.
September will be packed with an unprecedented concentration of fairs and shows, starting with Art Basel, whose parent event has been postponed until late September. Paris is no exception.
Originally set for April 30 to May 3, Monaco Art Week (MAW) is taking place from July 13 to 18, overlapping with artmonte-carlo, which will be at the Grimaldi Forum from July 15 to 17.
One of the art world’s leading events is making an eagerly awaited comeback and celebrating its 30th anniversary at the Palais Brongniart.
The fifth edition of the Bourgogne Tribal Show will take place from June 24 to 27 in Besanceuil, near Cluny in Saône-et-Loire.
Co-organized with the Syndicat National des Antiquaires, the ambitious event planned for November aims to mix traders, high-end jewelry and “haute facture”. But all remains to be built, in a particularly complicated context.
On June 16, galleries in the 9th arrondissement of Paris will join forces for the 20th Biennial “Quartier Art Drouot.”
The Middle East and North Africa now have their own international fair. Laure d’Hauteville, founder and director of the Beirut Art Fair, has just launched Menart Art Fair, with “MENA” as an acronym for these regions.
The Biennale de Paris [soon to be replaced by EX.Paris – Ed.] has ceased to exist without reaching its 50th anniversary.
A big drop, it’s true, but not a collapse. The art market seems to have held up reasonably well in the face of Covid 19, according to The Art Market, the latest report by UBS and Art Basel.
Don’t forget the lavish decorations by Pizzi, Wilmotte, Graf and Grange, September’s warmth under the glass roof of the light-drenched Grand Palais and the head-spinning maze of huge aisles where one could easily lose one’s way—for the Biennale Paris, formerly the Biennale des Antiquaires, is no more.
We talked to Brett Gorvy, the co-founder of Lévy Gorvy, former Christie’s Chairman, and Instagram sensation, about the changing horizons of today’s art market, the gallery’s forward-thinking approach with pop-ups, artists and new technologies, and his own collecting habits.
The Emirates are hosting one of the first physical fairs of the year.
Lying in the Upper Engadine at an altitude of 1,856 m, the village of St. Moritz becomes a holiday home for many collectors each winter.
The FIAC is the last fair to launch its digital version, with a very convincing preview. Stay tuned…
The Paris contemporary art fair has released the list of participants in its first Online Viewing Rooms from March 2 to 7 (the first two days are reserved for the VIP opening).
Every year, Artprice ranks the most expensive artworks sold at auction. The website posted very positive results for 2020, but scales of values decreased.
The Belgian government’s anti-Covid restrictions have not prompted the cancellation of BRAFA. However, the Brussels eclectic fair will take place not in an online viewing room but at participating galleries.
The paralysis affecting big events is encouraging some gallery owners to launch their own projects: a fitting approach fostering a return to the local dimension.
After four years of brisk growth, Fine Arts Paris, like other fairs, went online due to Covid-19. Here is an assessment.
The 2020 international trade fair season is ending on a positive note, achieving a slew of sales with the digital edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, staged from December 2 to 6.
