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Revenge of the apps
I’d like to enter a contrarian view about navigation apps, which are poised to infiltrate our endearingly technophobic art institutions. Forgive me for sounding like a cave man. But then, this post was...
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It’s Friezing over here
My barometer keeps jumping. One minute it’s backs-to-the-walls time, the next it’s all lavish parties and third venue vernissages. It has seemed like a growing, healthy trend for performative, lively...
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The Appeal of SEVEN
Back in 2006, in an article titled “A storm of art as Baselmania engulfs Miami,” New York Times art critic Roberta Smith predicted that Art fairs will continue to flourish until the bottom falls out of...
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Miami debrief
The results are in, and it was a good year in Miami. Smiles were seen on dealers’ faces at every category of fair. Here’s a distillation of the general consensus. Art Basel: Large work. High prices....
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Museums 2.0
Adam Levine writes: Amidst the glamour of Art Basel, earlier this month, one panel in the “Conversations” series—moderated by AWS’s Andras Szanto, as it happens—stood out in its attempt to tackle a...
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Zuckerberg to VIP Art Fair: “Users are fickle…”
There is a scene in The Social Network when Jesse Eisenberg’s Zuckerberg is laying into his then CFO, Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), for freezing the company account of the then-neo-natal Facebook....
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Maastricht: a different model for collecting?
BY JONATHAN T.D. NEIL AND ANDRAS SZANTO, JUST RETURNED FROM THE NETHERLANDS Why don’t we see more cross-period and cross-category collecting? We found ourselves asking this question repeatedly while...
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The season that was
Looking back over the season that just passed, consolidation is the word that best describes the dynamics of the art world now. Large entities are getting larger; smaller ones are still squeezed or...
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The season of our disconnect
I got back from Art Basel this weekend on a plane full of artworld types, with fresh impressions for my interesting disconnects file. First, between the ebullience of the art fair and the dark...
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Too much of a good thing?
With the Whitney Biennial, Armory Show, ADAA Art Show, Independent, Moving Image, Nada, Scope, and Volta fairs, their sundry offshoots and side events, innumerable gallery openings, and the auction...
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