Art Basel closed the doors on the 2019 edition reporting buoyant sales to private collectors and public institutions by galleries across all market sector. The fair attracted buyers from over 80 countries and an overall attendance of 93,000. Leading private collectors...
A series of dynamic performance has been announced for the opening week and final weekend of the 58th Venice Biennale of Art. There will be fourteen performances utilising the gardens and galleries of the Giardini and Arsenale, as well as the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale....
The activist photographer Nan Goldin, who has staged anti-Sackler protests at leading international museums has welcomed the decision of the family and Trust to suspend “all new philanthropic giving”. The artist, who became addicted to Oxy-Contin suffered...
Welcome to the Artlyst Frieze LA Week 2019 printable pull-out Guide, This is our curated choice of the events not to miss during the busiest week in the Los Angeles Contemporary Art calendar. This events guide is one of the most respected Frieze and Frieze week LA...
I’ve been looking again at Georgina Adam’s recently published book, The Dark Side of the Boom (Lund Humphries). It ranges over a wide variety of contemporary art world topics and is quite largely concerned with recent art world misdeeds – that is, with the commercial...
Thierry Forien is a collector of Contemporary Art, and former Chair of Prix des Amis du Palais de Tokyo. He is on the board of Thalie Art Foundation, Artistic committee of Fluxus Art Projects and practices as an independent curator. When did you start collecting art?...
The highly regarded chef and restaurateur Mark Hix has announced the winner for this year’s 2018 HIX Award, the nationally acclaimed competition for art students and recent graduates. The prize giving ceremony took place Thursday evening 25th October. Each year...
Portraits of 100 pioneering women of the 21st century are highlighted in a remarkable new exhibition which has taken ten years to compile. The Royal College of Art will host the show this summer (20 July – 22 August). First Women UK is a visually arresting and...
A 26% rise has been reported at Christie’s with overall sales to almost £3bn ($4bn, up 35%) compared to £2.35bn in the first half of 2017. Continued global demand, audience engagement with the diversity of collecting categories and the historic Rockefeller sales...