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...At Frieze London in 2021 the gallery showed “Ru k’ ox k’ob’el jun ojer etemab’el” (“The Echo of an Ancient Form of Knowledge”) by Edgar Calel, an Indigenous Maya Kaqchikel artist, which features two dozen...
...Some of these coincide with exhibitions in the city: Julianknxx, who is on view at the Barbican Centre, will be at Edel Assanti’s booth at Frieze London; El Anatsui, who opens in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall...
...As Art Basel Miami Beach brings even more art to the city in early December, Allapattah has become a standout district....
...Art Basel has appointed the Detroit gallerist Bridget Finn as director of its Miami edition, meaning that its four fairs now have dedicated directors....
...We get some startling juxtapositions: a miniature version of the Picasso-El Greco show that landed at the Kunstmuseum in Basel last year, plus a jolt of the electricity that Cézanne tried to channel from...
...“I would like a fully fledged fair in Asia but am starting carefully,” says 1-54 founder Touria El-Glaoui....
...A talking point at this year’s Art Basel was the Basel Social Club, an informal gathering of artists in a disused factory where artworks, including performances, appeared alongside ad hoc bars, sound stages...
...Art Basel’s chief executive, Noah Horowitz, says: “With four fairs on three continents, we are too large for a single person alone to manage the growth and development of Art Basel and at the same time be...
...“We are facing injustice and humiliation,” said Hisham Saleh as he drove his wife, children and two sisters to Deir el Balah, a town in the middle section of the Gaza Strip....
...Picasso — El Greco, an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel, revisits Picasso’s admiration for the great painters of the Renaissance, in particular his life-long obsession with one of the most idiosyncratic...
...Fellow international gallerist Thaddaeus Ropac also brings work by El-Sayegh, as well as new pieces by Alvaro Barrington and Oliver Beer....
...Art Basel has appointed Vincenzo de Bellis, curator and associate director of visual arts programmes at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis since 2016, as director of its art fairs in Basel, Miami, Hong...
...It might be the same clients who come to Basel in June, but here they have a different mindset. They jump right in.”...
...In London, meanwhile, former City banker Zena El Farra founded the Belgravia workshop space MasterPeace in 2019 to explore painting as a form of mindfulness....
...Visitors to this week’s Art Basel Miami Beach arrived in the mood to buy, happy to snap up work at America’s biggest art fair for the first time in two years....
...But at Art Basel Miami Beach last year, when she showed works by the Colombian, Los Angeles-based artist Carolina Caycedo, something had changed....
...of tough new Basel IV regulations will require “flawless delivery of its targets”....
...Its first recipient is El Museo del Barrio, a New York institution for the often-overlooked Latino artists....
...If governments (other than El Salvador’s) have their way, it could get a lot worse. This week Russia, a massive centre for mining, proposed a clampdown on that and on trading....
...Both selections are still available at theartists.net, where this week the independent curator Maya El Khalil has added her choice of four young artists from the Gulf region....
...Either way, a $5,000 rise since Tuesday, spurred also by El Salvador becoming the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, highlighted the committee’s point about volatility....
...Meanwhile, El Salvador has taken the unprecedented step of making the cryptocurrency bitcoin legal tender. What is happening in the US?...
...The Basel committee of global banking regulators said in June that “the growth of crypto assets and related services has the potential to raise financial stability concerns and increase risks faced by banks...
...“The pandemic gave me time to think and analyse the business model,” says Touria El Glaoui, founder-director of the 1-54 fairs....
...However El Salvador had just a day earlier announced that it would make bitcoin a legal tender — the first country in the world to do so....
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