In Basel, alternative art fairs spring up in new places
The number of satellite selling events in Basel is growing, as dealers respond to an ever more overcrowded field by offering alternative modes of engaging with...
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Art Basel 2025
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No more business-as-usual: Art Basel demonstrates how dealers can adapt to thrive
Art Basel has long been considered the ultimate art fair. This year is no different—but even Art Basel is not impervious to market conditions and factors like...
Art Basel Diary: guests unwind in the Rhine, puppets rest in bunk beds and Bezos’s yacht gets hot
Bezos’s blazing yacht is hot stuff A lightbox piece at Liste art fair showing Jeff Bezos’s yacht in flames is stopping people in their tracks and raising...
In pictures: meet the newcomer galleries debuting at Art Basel
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska The Rapture (2025) Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw The Kyiv-based artist Sana Shahmuradova Tanska’s monumental painting is timely,...
Curator Francesco Bonami on art fairs: ‘33% waste of time and 10% boring’
Few people have more experience at art fairs than the Italian curator and writer Francesco Bonami. “My first visit to Art Basel was in 1985. I was a struggling...
Koons lobster snapped up amid day two sales at Art Basel
The second day of the Art Basel VIP preview, sales continued to roll in, albeit at a slower pace. White Cube sold Michael Armitage’s 2015 painting In the...
Cause for cheer at Art Basel as strong preview-day sales take many galleries by surprise
Geopolitical factors, like war between Israel and Iran, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and escalating military action in Russia and Ukraine, can spook...
Basel’s new satellite fair rides the wave of interest in contemporary African art
The market for contemporary African art has been a subject of considerable focus in recent years, and now it has a dedicated fair in Basel. Africa Basel was...
Art Basel Diary: fashionistas stay a-head, pumping iron at Basel Social Club, and what Jerry Gogosian did next
Basel’s dedicated followers of fashion One of the most appealing things about Art Basel is the top-notch fashion paraded on the fair floor. The writer Sarah...
With more than 40 galleries represented, Germany is a major player at Art Basel this year
German representation at Art Basel this year is as strong as ever. While most participating galleries hail from the US (around 70 of them), Germany comes in...
