Frieze And Basel 2021 Fairs Have A Rethink As COVID Takes Its Toll
Frieze Art Fairs seem to be having a rethink as a result of closures due to COVID. First off, the 2020 New York and London fairs were cancelled and put online
17 November 2020
Art Market
Chagall’s Largest Artwork Auctioned – Prix Pictet Theme Announced – Jade Montserrat Performs
News In Brief: Chagall’s Largest Artwork Auctioned – Prix Pictet Theme Announced – Jade Montserrat Performs
17 November 2020
John Waters Gift To Baltimore Museum – Spain’s Latest Horrific Art Restoration – CINOA Begs UNESCO For Art Trade Cooperation
An Open Letter From CINOA Congratulates UNESCO for their 50-year anniversary of the 1970 Convention but pleads for better representation of the facts and better cooperation for the art trade
12 November 2020
Marian Goodman To Close London Gallery – Is This The Tip Of The Iceberg?
Marian Goodman is to close her London gallery. A statement released today explained, “Dramatic changes” in the art world propelled the decision.
23 October 2020
Banksy’s Show Me The Monet Sells For £7.6m At Sotheby’s
Banksy’s Show Me The Monet Sells For £7.6m At Sotheby’s
22 October 2020
Your Frieze London 2020 Online Guide – Artlyst
The Frieze London 2020 platform for modern and contemporary art has announced the opening of both Frieze and Frieze Masters.
8 October 2020
Royal Opera Auctions Hockney Portrait To Cover COVID Debts
An iconic portrait by the British Artist David Hockney of Royal Opera House boss Sir David Webster will go under the hammer this month at Christie’s. It has been suggested that the painting will fetch up to £18m.
4 October 2020
Paula Rego Severs Ties With Marlborough And Joins Victoria Miro
The British/Portuguese artist Paula Rego has severed ties with her long-term gallery Marlborough and joined Victoria Miro
2 October 2020
$80m Price Tag For Botticelli Portrait To Be Sold At Sotheby’s
A portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel by Sandro Botticelli painted in the 15th century will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in January. Young Man Holding a Roundel is expected to fetch more than 80 million dollars the highest estimate ever placed on a work by an Old Master in Sotheby’s history, the auction house says.
24 September 2020
COVID19 Blamed For 36% Drop In Gallery Sales Art Basel Reports
Art Basel has published their 2020 mid-year survey ‘The Impact of COVID- 19 on the Gallery Sector’ shows smaller galleries have been hardest hit, while online selling platforms are a growing priority.
15 September 2020
FIAC Paris: Artworld Mourns Another Major Fair Cancellation
The French are a defiant lot when it comes to business and culture, but COVID and new EU movement regulations have cancelled FIAC Paris the last major fair of the year to announce it will not be taking place in October.
15 September 2020
Meet The Next Generation Saatchi Gallery Entrepreneurs
The daughter of advertising mogul/collector Charles Saatchi has announced the launch of a new gallery in London’s Mayfair.
10 September 2020
Art Basel Announces Cancellation Of Miami Beach fair
Art Basel has had a very tough year. Could it be the Murdoch curse? Due to the COVID pandemic’s impact, Art Basel has announced the cancellation of its Miami Beach fair.
2 September 2020
Frank Dunphy Damien Hirst’s Financial Advisor And Manager Dies Age 82
Frank Dunphy, the man behind Damien Hirst and many leading YBAs financial success has died age 82.
30 August 2020
Photo London Cancels 2020 October Fair Opting For Virtual Replacement
Photo London the UK’s premier photo fair which was supposed to take place in October during Frieze week has been cancelled
24 August 2020
Sotheby’s Sells A Rembrandt For The Price Of A Leger – Hugh Mendes
I also visited the auction house to view all the lots, which made up quite an impressive exhibition: from ‘Rembrandt to Richter’ as it was called.
30 July 2020
Frieze London Cancels Flagship Autumn Fair 2020
Frieze has announced that their flagship London fair won’t take place this year. The announcement came into VIPs this afternoon. See full statement below.
14 July 2020
Art Derivatives Challenges Auction House Manipulation By Analysing Data
Art Derivatives a project by the Italian artist Paolo Cirio that challenges the ‘out of control’ practices of manipulation of the art market, the largest unregulated market after narcotics
2 July 2020
Marlborough To Close NY Gallery – London Next?
The legendary Marlborough Gallery is to close their NY premises with an announcement about the future of their London flagship pending.
19 June 2020
Sotheby’s Rembrandt Self Portrait Should Be Returned To Holland
Sotheby’s announced this week that a small, delicate Rembrandt self-portrait is to be auctioned on July 28th, here in London. The painting is unusually intimate, (about 17 x 22cm) and was painted in 1632 when the artist was 26 years old.
11 June 2020
London’s Galleries And Auction Houses To Reopen From 15 June
The first of the London mega galleries have announced they are to reopen after a three-month lockdown period. White Cube and Gagosian will open by timed appointment to comply with social distancing measures from next week.
8 June 2020
Art Basel Cancels 2020 Flagship Fair
Art Basel has announced that after an extensive analysis of the current global situation, due to the Coronavirus pandemic they will not be presenting their flagship Basel show this year.
6 June 2020
Photo London Moves To October Date At Gray’s Inn Gardens
Photo London has relocated to Gray’s Inn Gardens for new Frieze Week Autumn dates (7–11 October with a preview on the evening of 6 October). This move away from Somerset House is likely because it would clash with The African Art Fair already booked for the October dates.
14 May 2020
London Museum And Gallery Lockdown Could Be Relaxed In June
Following Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement on Sunday, the next stage in easing the COVID-19 lockdown could include the reopening of Museums and Galleries. This would be possible as soon as 1st June.
13 May 2020
London Art Week Goes Digital This July
This summer London Art Week is launching a new online platform. LAW DIGITAL which will showcase the world’s leading pre-contemporary galleries from 3 – 10 July 2020, with a Private View on Thursday 2 July.
12 May 2020
Frieze NY 2020 Moves From Randall Island To A Laptop Near You
In light of global health concerns regarding COVID-19 (coronavirus) and following advice and restrictions from local, national, international and health authorities, Frieze NY 2020 has moved from Randall’s Island Park to a laptop near you.
6 May 2020
Art Collective MSCHF Who Cut Up £25k Damien Hirst Spot Print Auctions It For £212,000
The Brooklyn-based Art Collective MSCHF has purchased a £25k Damien Hirst spot print and cut out the dots.
28 April 2020
CoronART Chronicles: From ARCO To ConfineART – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
Who would have thought early February when Art Basel Hong Kong was cancelled that the coronavirus crisis was going to spread like lighting to everywhere else on the planet
13 April 2020
Sotheby’s Announce Significant Redundancies Due To Coronavirus
Sotheby’s has announced significant redundancies, staff hiatuses, and pay cuts as a result of the Coronavirus.
2 April 2020
Art Goes Viral – Edward Lucie-Smith
The coronavirus has been responsible for a major crisis in the art world. Museums and galleries have slammed their doors shut. Increasingly the only way to look at art, in the present situation, is to look at it on a computer screen – or, at a pinch, on the screen of your mobile phone. This is creating a ‘viral’ phenomenon.
29 March 2020
And Last But Not Least Art Basel Gets Postponed
Well well, we all knew this was coming. TEFAF Maastricht is currently under fire for infecting the upper echelons of the art world with up to 50 cases of the Coronavirus. It has been linked to over 300 international exhibitors who unwittingly took the virus back to their home countries.
26 March 2020
Paul Kasmin Formative Contemporary Art Dealer Dies Age 60
The London-born dealer PAUL KASMIN (1960–2020) has died in New York after a protracted illness. The gallery released the following statement.
24 March 2020