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    The Art Market

    • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
      Art lender pauses operations because of ‘perfect storm’

      Photography fair cancelled in New York, launches in Hong Kong; tributes pour in for dealer Barbara Gladstone; new head at Artsy

    • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
      Collecting
      Art Basel big-ticket sales banish ‘doom porn’ warnings

      Jeffrey Deitch gets surreal; textiles all the rage at Liste; lifestyle shop goes down well

      Room with green floor with painting of trees on the wall and a yellow bed and drawers art installation
    • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
      Art Basel 2024
      Collector Haro Cumbusyan: ‘I am drawn to works that are outside of my comfort zone’

      The social entrepreneur and his wife have specialised in new media art — everything from films to holograms

      A middle-aged man dressed in a stripy dark jumper, blue trousers and glasses sits on a leather chair before a busy bookshelf. On the left of the scene, a wide TV screen shows a beach inhabited by floating ears
    • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
      Art Basel 2024
      Balkan artists step into the spotlight

      Aside from big names such as Marina Abramović, the region is little known globally, making it ripe for collectors

      An elegant hotel’s façade, featuring tall windows, floral motifs and an iron balcony, features signs reading ‘HOTEL MERIAN’ and ‘CAFE SPITZ’ and is illuminated by a two illuminated five-pointed stars
    • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
      Art Basel 2024
      Art Basel faces volatile economic backdrop and ‘generational shift’ as fair opens

      Maike Cruse, new director of the group’s Swiss edition, says young collectors want to network more and have fun

      A large yellow and purple patterned carpet against two light blue walls. Large wooden structures like latticed side tables sit on the carpet supporting various objects. Slogan paintings are on the walls.
    • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
      Art Basel 2024
      ‘Each show is conceived as a revelation’: Vicente Todoli on the Pirelli HangarBicocca art space

      The vast Milan gallery, now celebrating its 20th anniversary, presents exhibitions on a scale few others can manage

      A vast industrial space shown from above contains seven concrete towers scattered across an empty nave and a screen installation. On ground level, a small group of people walks around the room
    • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
      Art Basel 2024
      Anna Uddenberg’s sculptures of seduction, submission and control

      Her body-warping works entrap performers and make audiences consider how and why we give away our power

      A young woman wearing a beige double-breasted blazer dress, chequered tights and brown boots sits on a long, wooden working desk in a white studio
    • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
      Art Basel 2024
      Basel Social Club moves from factory to farm

      The non-fair fair will take its alternative model to 50 acres of fields outside the city

      A crowded gathering by a bar in an old factory with a glass roof
    • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
      Art Basel 2024
      Food courts and pharmacies are Basel’s hottest new art spaces

      The Parcours section under curator Stefanie Hessler is installing work in commercial spaces

      A monochromatic installation shows human hands and arms caressing, clinging onto or hugging tree trunks against a curtain-like, white background
    • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
      FT Collecting Supplements
      Art Basel 2024

      The 54th in-person edition of the Modern and contemporary fair will gather important collectors and international galleries as the art market faces a downturn

      A gorilla sculpture with bright red eyes hides underneath a large, white wooden desk with three drawers
    • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
      Sotheby’s and Christie’s cut jobs in weak art market

      Hong Kong sales disappoint; Banksy print from liquidated charity comes to Sworders; London and Newcastle galleries swap spaces

      Two birds on a wooden fence with a house in the background
    • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
      Hacking group claims responsibility for attack on Christie’s

      Artists support UK’s Labour party; Bali to get new private museum in 2026; Rodeo rebrands

      A red-tinted painting of someone dressed like Margaret Thatcher seated at a table crowded with objects
    • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
      Subdued New York auctions show recent trends reversing

      Sotheby’s loses head; Christie’s shelves June evening sale in London; Old Masters dealer gets into sculpture

    • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
      Christie’s cyber attack fails to derail bellwether sales

      Basel Social Club takes over a farm; Italian Modernist Salvatore Mangione in the spotlight; Photo London gives young artists a break

    • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
      InterviewVisual Arts
      The expert protecting the legacies of Josef and Anni Albers

      Nicholas Fox Weber runs the foundation which authenticates their work and gives out grants to artists

      An elderly man and woman sit together in a living room holding and looking at artworks
    • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
      Sotheby’s to sell Chicago trader’s £13mn collection

      New York art marathon starts slowly; London gallery sells out first show; new book highlights queer art

      A financier stands in front of one of his collected art works
    • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
      Italy
      Italy can seize ancient statue in US, European court says

      Rome has tried for decades to repatriate ‘Victorious Youth’ from Getty museum in Malibu

      The statue known as ‘Victorious Youth’ is displayed at the Getty Villa
    • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Can the art market be fixed?

      From shady deals to outright fraud, a series of high-profile scandals have rocked the art world. What’s the solution?

      A group of people, mainly young women, inside a blue-walled art gallery with large pictures on its walls
    • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
      Frieze New York 2024
      Art and activism come together at the Canal Projects Library

      Social practice — artists’ community-based work — is about exploring the world outside the white cube

      In a photo, a shelving unit contains objects including a book titled ‘ASSEMBLAGE, ENVIRONMENTS & HAPPENINGS’, a purple cap and a yellow leaflet invoking collective participation.
    • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
      Frieze New York 2024
      Artist Charisse Pearlina Weston: ‘This is a kind of violence that’s been naturalised, but it’s not natural’

      Her glass sculptures allude to the threats Black people face but also the possibility of a better world

      A young woman wearing a soft grey longuette skirt and a black top is portrayed in her artist studio
    • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
      Frieze New York 2024
      Art galleries turn to fresh forms of collaboration as market splinters

      Smaller spaces are struggling in a tough economy as mega-galleries poach artists

      In an abstract painting, colourful triangular shapes, floral motifs and a bright yellow moon stand against a blue marine background.
    • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
      Frieze New York 2024
      Curator Matthew Higgs: ‘People have become fatigued by huge art fairs with hundreds of galleries’

      Independent Art Fair’s curatorial adviser believes New York’s art market is still growing even during an industry slowdown

      A young man wearing black clothes stares at the monochromatic totems and wall-wide floral and geometric canvases shown in a gallery.
    • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
      Frieze New York 2024
      Artist Amalia Mesa-Bains: ‘I had to be almost 80 years old for this moment to happen’

      A pioneer of the Chicano art movement is finally getting recognition for her altar-like installations

      An older woman with long grey hair wearing a black, wide shirt and glasses stands in her living room against an orange background.
    • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
      Frieze New York 2024
      Performance artists defy the market

      Time-based works are hard to sell — and that can be the point

      A young naked man is captured  falling backwards mid-air against a clear blue sky.
    • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
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      Frieze New York 2024

      The fair arrives as galleries, braving a downturn, find new ways to collaborate. Also: interviews with artists Amalia Mesa-Bains and Charisse Pearlina Weston, a profile of gallerist Ales Ortuzar and much more

      In a colourful painting, spiky plant tree crowns, tree branches, flowers and contrasting snakes give life to a joyful composition.
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