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...Exhibitors at Art Basel Hong Kong were enthusiastic at this year’s VIP opening as the event returned to a full-scale, post-pandemic 242 galleries....
...Art Basel Hong Kong runs March 28-30, artbasel.com...
...The notion of reconnecting with the world chimes perfectly with this year’s Art Basel, back to full strength after the Covid years....
...South-east Asian artists and galleries have historically looked at Hong Kong as the go-to place to expand their worldwide reach, thanks to fairs such as Art Basel Hong Kong and the presence of international...
...They compare the vibe of the initiative to the popular and alternative Basel Social Club, founded in 2022 with an informal and more inclusive feel than traditional art fairs....
...The annual Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report found that the wealthy “are not immune to disruptive financial, social or political changes”, according to author Clare McAndrew of Arts Economics....
...London gallerist Pilar Corrias finds that “the flavour of each of their fairs may be a bit different, but [Art] Basel is a staple. You know they will attract international collectors and institutions.”...
...Art Basel’s Conversations programme this year brings together 30 cultural experts to discuss topics from international art markets to creative fungi that shed light on local art scenes as well as some of...
...Lam has a solo show of Hambling opening in Hong Kong next week (March 26-May 16, prices up to £170,000) and brings her “Wall of Water XIX” (2022) to the Art Basel Hong Kong fair (March 28-30)....
...Since 2019, Art Basel has also operated a sliding-scale pricing model for booths in its main sectors....
...“I really had no idea how it was going to go,” said the gallerist Xavier Hufkens of this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach fair, echoing the uncertainty of many at this last big art event of the year....
...Healthy sales, made mostly under $100,000, were reported from the 16th edition of the Dallas Art Fair (April 4-7)....
...The international fair’s gravity is strong enough that the local arts scene has now rearranged itself around a robustly programmed February “Art Week”, with hotel-fair Felix, Spring/Break and the LA Art...
...international network of similar-minded individuals....
...Instead, this local programme is funded by a prodigious schedule of international art fairs, including the upcoming Art Basel Miami Beach, with booths that have won prizes and recognition....
...Most works at the fair were priced below these levels, reflecting India’s still emergent clientele for art....
...For The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) in Maastricht (March 9-14), Benda is showing a selection of Branzi’s work — art, furniture, needlework, lighting — which distils his experimental approach....
...For Paris, he notes, a third of the galleries in the Art Basel fair have a space in France — though he disagrees the notion that, as more and more international galleries open in the capital, this distinction...
...Online art fairs may have been consigned to memory since the post-Covid surge back to in-person events but they can still play a significant role — particularly for galleries lower down the food chain....
...New York: High Life/Low Life by Dafydd Jones is published by ACC Art Books at £30...
...October 20-22, parisplus.artbasel.com PARIS+ PAR ART BASEL Free-to-see Vincenzo de Bellis, Art Basel’s director of fairs and exhibition platforms, is presiding over the second edition of Paris+ and says...
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