Emotional Landscapes and Eco-Surrealism: L.A. Art Insiders Ponder What Comes Next After the End of the Figuration Boom

Alina Cohen (Artnews) Joshua Nathanson, Already Gone (2022). Courtesy of Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Seoul. When Frieze Los Angeles opens to the public this week, cultural stakeholders from all over will swarm the Santa Monica airport, seeking an intelligible narrative about the state of contemporary art—in a city famous for its lack…

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Crisis, what crisis? Global import and export of art set to hit record levels by the end of 2022, according to Art Basel/UBS report

Demand from collectors remains “extremely resilient”—but survey asks how long can the current model be sustained? Anny Shaw (TheArtnewspaper) A visitor at Frieze Masters 2022—one of a number of fairs this year that held live events with no social distancing measures. Courtesy of Frieze After the art market bounced back better than expected in 2021,…

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Inflation Fueling Red-Hot Art Market? High Prices Draw More Sellers

The art market is tracking for record highs, says UBS and Art Basel. Martine Paris3 November 2022 at 16:48 GMT A visitor walks past an art installation during Art Basel Miami Beach. Photographer: Scott McIntyre/Bloomberg It’s boom times for the art world as high-net-worth collectors flock to international shows in search of exciting new finds. Buyers are bullish about…

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Central London’s calling: smaller galleries bank on bigger spaces despite economic uncertainty

In the post-Brexit, post-pandemic era, dealers are moving into new and more central venues in London London’s Fitzrovia has seen several galleries pop up in new spaces Photo: Flavius Călin/Unsplash A flurry of moves and expansions among London’s smaller and mid-sized galleries suggests dealers are rising to the twin challenges of economic and political crisis.…

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Ultra-contemporary art boom defies economic downturn at Frieze London

New works by young artists are in high demand at the fair, reflecting a surge in prices at auction Jadé Fadojutimi’s work at Gagosian’s Frieze London stand had already sold out before the fair had even opened yesterday David Owens There were few signs of an impending global recession during the VIP opening of Frieze…

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Five Takeaways on the Global Art-Market Outlook

Germany-based start-up arttrade dug into the Artnet Price Database to bring you five insights about how the auction market has evolved. Artnet News in Partnership With arttrade, August 26, 2022 Andy Warhol’s One Dollar Bill (Silver Certificate) (1962) shown at the media preview of the summer auction at Sotheby’s Hong Kong in May 2015. (Photo…

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