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Wednesday 10 Mar 10
Art Basel’s 40th edition continued to defy the worldwide financial slump yesterday, after the NetJets crowd had flitted off, leaving trails of cigar smoke, empty magnums of Cheval Blanc and throngs of prosperous European art lovers behind. Brad Pitt, Naomi Campbell, Roman Abramovich and music producer Pharrell Williams were among the celebrities... >>>
The blurring of the boundaries between the art fair and the biennial or that type of international survey exhibition is almost historical: in 1895 Venetian mayor Ricardo Selvatico saw the first Venice Biennale as an opportunity to promote the city as an international meeting place; in 1955, curator Arnold Bode modelled Documenta in Kassel after... >>>
“I want to keep my galleries in business,” said Volta director Amanda Coulson as she hotfooted it around Basel’s Markthalle, an expansive former fruit and vegetable market. The move to the 1920s Markthalle provides plenty of space for the 110 galleries in the satellite fair’s fifth edition, 42 more than in 2008. And the stands are more... >>>
Galleries hit by the recession may be closing in New York and London, but Larry Gagosian is undertaking an ambitious expansion of his space in Beverly Hills. In addition to his gallery in Los Angeles, Gagosian oversees three spaces in New York, two in London and one in Rome, and also organises temporary shows in Moscow. Now he has asked architect... >>>
Even before the Art Basel fair opened, the Paris-based dealer and art adviser Philippe Ségalot had bought Matthew Day Jackson’s installation of four hanging skeletal figures in mirrored coffins, Dymaxion Family, 2009, in Art Unlimited (Blum, 054). The piece went, for an undisclosed price, to a “private collector”. Ségalot has unprecedented access... >>>
