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Get ready players! Auction Fortnight has begun and there’s only one winner! Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale, Hong Kong, September 30 Sotheby’s Modern Art Evening Sale, Hong Kong, September 30 At Sotheby’s Hong Kong Evening Sale four works stood out, by Zao Wou-Ki, Liu Ye, Xu Zhen and yeah, um Hao Liang. Let’s have a […]

Report by Sara Kramer The 13th edition of Contemporary Istanbul was held from 20 – 23 September 2018 at the Istanbul Congress Center. In spite of the fact that Turkey is facing its biggest economic crisis since 2001 and while the Turkish Lira has plunged to roughly one-fifth its value within the last year [1] ’Contemporary Istanbul’ […]

“Always the same thing. How boring! Pedants definitely!” said Oblomov, yawning. Basel is still the best art fair in the world. You knew that already. It runs as smoothly as Swiss Rail. No air-conditioning problems here! Yet there is a growing sense Art Basel is getting predictable. At first, I thought it was just me, […]

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Cologne is the source of Germany’s contemporary art scene. It is home to the massively influential Museum Ludwig and the world’s oldest art fair, Art Cologne, the 52nd edition of which has just opened, as well as being a hub for many of the most important post-war German artists, including Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz […]

These days it seems where ever you turn there are complaints about the gallery system. New York has been discussing the “mid-sized gallery squeeze” for years now—to no avail. The cards are still stacked in favor of the heavy-hitting galleries, like David Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth, Gagosian, you name it.

A strong advocate for the internationalisation of art, Nathalie Obadia has been instrumental in introducing Chinese artists such as MadeIn, Ni Youyu and Wang Keping to the Paris art scene.

“Things are not, in fact, bad,” seemed to be the sentiment of Lorenzo Rudolf, the founder and president of Art Stage, back at Art Stage Singapore back in January this year, striking a pre-emptively defensive and reassuring note.