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art basel 2025

Art Basel 2025 opened in Basel with VIP previews, featuring a mix of high-priced works like Félix González-Torres's $16 million performance piece and Yu Nishimura's fresh-to-market triptych at €375,000. The fair adapts to a shifting market with lower price points, faster decisions, and new sectors like Premiere for ultra-contemporary art, alongside global expansion including a new fair in Doha. Satellite events like Liste and the Basel Social Club offer alternative experiences, while curated booths, such as Gagosian's 30th-anniversary presentation, blend curatorial idealism with the fair format.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 17, 2025 visibility 25 link 9 artists, 8 galleries

art basel dealers recall early days

Art Basel dealers recall the fair's early days, from its founding in 1970 by Swiss dealers Ernst Beyeler, Trudl Bruckner, and Balz Hilt to its evolution into a global powerhouse with editions in Hong Kong, Miami Beach, Paris, and soon Qatar. Veterans like David Fleiss of Galerie 1900-2000, Thaddaeus Ropac, Iwan Wirth of Hauser & Wirth, and Dominique Lévy of Lévy Gorvy Dayan share personal anecdotes, including chaotic customs incidents, childhood memories, and the fair's shift from a Eurocentric gathering to the world's premier art fair.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 17, 2025 visibility 22 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

bts fan art show seoul

A new exhibition titled "Presence in Absence: The Art of BTS Chapter 2" opens at Taxa Seoul on June 21, featuring 20 fan artists from around the world whose works celebrate the K-pop group BTS. Curated by Jieun Seo and Yvette Wohn of 25th Hour Collective, the show includes artworks created between 2022 and 2025, a period when BTS members were fulfilling mandatory military service, leading fans to channel their devotion into creative expression. The exhibition highlights diverse styles and media, from solo portraits to surreal scenes, reflecting the global reach of BTS fandom.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 16, 2025 visibility 28 link 6 artists, 2 galleries

christies design sale june 2025 tiffany studios window

Christie's June 2025 design sales totaled $23.6 million across two auctions, led by the 'American Avant-Garde: The James D. Zellerbach Residence by Frances Elkins' single-owner sale ($8.1 million) and the broader Design sale ($15.4 million). The top lot was the Goddard Memorial Window by Tiffany Studios, which sold for $4.285 million with fees to an online bidder, marking the second-highest price ever for a Tiffany Studios work. Other highlights included two Alberto Giacometti bird sculptures selling for nearly $2.9 million each, a Claude Lalanne chandelier at $1.865 million, and her sculpture 'L'Enlèvement d'Europe' at $1.134 million.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 16, 2025 visibility 22 link 5 artists, 3 galleries

katharina grosse messeplatz art basel interview

German artist Katharina Grosse, known for her immersive spray-painted installations, will create a monumental painting titled "CHOIR" across the entire Messeplatz in Basel during Art Basel. The project, curated by Natalia Graboska, involves spray-painting the 53,800-square-foot pedestrian precinct in shades of magenta, marking the first time a painter has been commissioned to take over the entire square. In an interview with ARTnews, Grosse discusses her evolution from early experiments with spray guns in Marseille to key works like "Untitled" (1998) at Kunsthalle Bern and "The Bedroom" (2004), and her upcoming 2026 show at the Munch Museum in Oslo.

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article culture schedule Jun 12, 2025 visibility 21 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

gerbil art museum london

Filippo Lorenzin, an independent curator at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and artist Marianna Benetti built a miniature art museum for their pet gerbils, Pandoro and Tiramisu, during lockdown. The couple spent four hours constructing the tiny gallery from cardboard, paper, and wood, featuring rodent-themed parodies of famous artworks including Gustav Klimt's *The Kiss*, Johannes Vermeer's *The Girl With the Pearl Earring*, Leonardo da Vinci's *Mona Lisa*, and Edvard Munch's *The Scream*. They filmed the gerbils exploring the space and shared the footage on Reddit, where it quickly went viral.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 11, 2025 visibility 31 link 37 artists, 1 gallery

top 10 german art collectors

Artnet News has published a list of the top 10 German art collectors, coinciding with the opening of Art Cologne 2015. The list includes notable figures such as Frieder Burda, who opened his own museum in Baden-Baden; Nicolas Berggruen, the "homeless billionaire" who favors contemporary American and German artists; Christian and Karen Boros, who display their collection in a repurposed Berlin bunker; industrialist Reinhold Würth, whose collection spans from Renaissance to contemporary; former dealer Désiré Feuerle, known for his eclectic mix of Khmer sculpture and contemporary art; and Hasso Plattner, co-founder of SAP and a major collector of Impressionist and modern works.

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candle obituary schedule Jun 10, 2025 visibility 24 link 8 artists, 3 galleries

david lynch obituary

David Lynch, the acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and musician known for his surreal and unsettling aesthetic, has died at age 78. His family announced his passing on Facebook, noting he had been battling emphysema after a lifetime of smoking. Lynch's career spanned over four decades, producing iconic films like *Blue Velvet* (1986) and *Inland Empire* (2006), as well as the hit TV series *Twin Peaks* (1990–91). Beyond cinema, he maintained a rich visual art practice, creating figurative paintings, assemblages, and photographs that echoed his cinematic themes of home, light, and dream logic.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 10, 2025 visibility 23 link 5 artists, 2 galleries

francis bacon pope

The Nahmad family sold a Francis Bacon painting titled *Pope* (1958) for $15 million at the VIP opening of Art Basel. The work, which had been purchased by Helly Nahmad gallery for $6.6 million at a Sotheby’s auction in 2019, was the second-highest known price at the fair, trailing only a $40 million Louise Bourgeois *Spider* sold by Hauser & Wirth.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 9, 2025 visibility 23 link 15 artists, 1 gallery

what to know jean tinguely

Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, born 100 years ago on May 22, 1925, is celebrated in a centenary retrospective at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan. Known for his kinetic sculptures—clattering, motorized assemblages of cogs, wheels, and found objects—Tinguely emerged from Dada influences in Basel and Paris to become a leading figure of kinetic art. His work satirizes technological reliance and explores themes of mortality, often incorporating animal skulls and planned explosions. Major retrospectives at the Stedelijk Museum (2016) and Pirelli HangarBicocca (2024) have revived interest in his oeuvre.

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article news schedule Jun 9, 2025 visibility 28 link 20 artists, 5 galleries

wet paints summer guide 2025

Artnet News' Wet Paint gossip column presents a selective summer guide for the art world, highlighting key exhibitions and social hotspots. In Manhattan, the Upper East Side offers the Park Avenue Armory's Diane Arbus photo exhibition, the Met's John Singer Sargent show, and the newly opened Frick with its Westmoreland café. Downtown, Bar Oliver in Two Bridges has become an art world haunt, co-created by Olmo and Cy Schnabel. The column also previews themed group shows: "Hope is a dangerous thing" at P.P.O.W. and "CAKE" at Olympia Gallery, featuring edible artworks. Exclusive news reveals the engagement of Lucas Zwirner to Charlotte Lindemann, merging two powerful art-dealing families. Additionally, Sky High Farm in Germantown, New York, is launching a new biennial with works by Anne Imhof, Rudolf Stingel, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres.

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rate_review review schedule Jun 6, 2025 visibility 30 link 12 artists, 1 gallery

raymond saunders carnegie museum retrospective review

Raymond Saunders's first retrospective, a small but potent exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, surveys 35 of his bewitching paintings. The works, described as elusive and Rauschenbergian, feature messy scrawls, collected trinkets, and media clippings, with pieces like *Passages: East, West 1* (1987) layering chess boards, paint strokes, and appropriated still lifes. Saunders, who joined Andrew Kreps and David Zwirner last year, has never before received a retrospective, despite his influential 1967 essay "Black Is a Color" and steady institutional acquisitions.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 6, 2025 visibility 36 link 14 artists, 1 gallery

diane arbus haunting new retrospective

The largest-ever exhibition of Diane Arbus's work, titled "Constellation," opens today at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. Featuring over 450 prints—many previously unpublished—the immersive show debuted at LUMA Arles in 2023 and arrives in the U.S. with its original labyrinthine format. Curated by Matthieu Humery, the exhibition presents Arbus's iconic photographs of marginalized figures, celebrities, and everyday people without chronological or narrative order, emphasizing her equalizing gaze. The prints come from the collection of Maja Hoffmann, who acquired the complete set of printer's proofs from Neil Selkirk, the only person authorized by the Diane Arbus Estate to print from her negatives.

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middle east art fair race doha dubai and abu dhabi art basel

Art Basel has announced a surprise deal to launch a new art fair in Qatar next year, partnering with Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) and QC+, a subsidiary of Qatar's sovereign wealth fund and commercial arm of Qatar Museums. The fair will debut with around 50 galleries in Doha, intentionally smaller than Basel's other fairs, with a distinct character aimed at building a long-term, sustainable event. The deal comes after rumors that Basel might take over Abu Dhabi Art, and as the region's art scene intensifies, with Art Dubai recently poaching Basel's global head of gallery relations Dunja Gottwies as its new director.

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article news schedule Jun 5, 2025 visibility 28 link 19 artists, 3 galleries

week in art holiday party edition

This article from Artnet News recaps a series of holiday parties and galas in the New York art world during December 2016. Highlights include the New York Botanical Garden's 18th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball, attended by Anne Hathaway, Tinsley Mortimer, and Andrew Warren; artnet's own holiday party featuring the Bumbys and a magician; ACRIA's 21st Annual Holiday Dinner honoring the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and actress Judith Light; and Project for Empty Space's Winter Bacchanal Benefit, which presented the first Badass Art Woman Awards to curators Rujeko Hockley, Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, and Deana Haggag.

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conditional authenticity appraisal reports recent cases

A Paris court seized 135 allegedly stolen paintings from Paris-based art authenticators ArtAnalysis in January, which had been holding the works for collector Mozes Frisch. The pieces are part of a 1,778-work collection supposedly by heavyweight Russian modernists. Palestinian businessman Uthman Khatib and his son Prince Castro Ben Leon claim the works were stolen from them by Frisch in 2019, and are suing in Germany for return of the works or $323 million. ArtAnalysis owner Laurette Thomas, Frisch, and collector Olivia Amar are countersuing Khatib for return of the Paris-held works plus $30.5 million in damages. The Khatibs' law firm Dentons hired Doerr Dallas Valuations to appraise the 135 disputed works, which assigned a $208 million valuation but included a caveat, likely related to the fact that many works were listed on the Art Loss Register in 2014 during an investigation into disgraced Israeli art dealer Itzhak Zarug, who was suspected of dealing fakes.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 4, 2025 visibility 25 link 5 artists, 6 galleries

artists gallery representation

Many artists are rethinking traditional gallery representation, seeking not just sales but also help with copyrights, visibility, and partnerships. Flexible co-representation arrangements are on the rise, with major galleries like Hauser & Wirth launching initiatives like Collective Impact to co-represent rising artists alongside their smaller founding galleries. Some artists are joining agencies or representing themselves, driven by social media's past ability to build direct collector relationships, though its power has recently declined due to algorithm changes.

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article culture schedule Jun 2, 2025 visibility 27 link 9 artists, 4 galleries

7 yayoi kusama works to know

Artnet News profiles seven key works by Yayoi Kusama, tracing her career from the 1960s to the present. The article highlights her iconic pieces such as *Narcissus Garden* (1966), a guerrilla installation at the Venice Biennale where she sold mirrored spheres, and *Death of a Nerve* (1976), a soft sculpture reflecting her emotional struggles after returning to Japan. It also notes her early life, including her traumatic childhood, move to New York, and friendships with artists like Georgia O'Keeffe and Joseph Cornell.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 29, 2025 visibility 34 link 29 artists, 13 galleries

frieze new york 2025 museum and gallery guide

Frieze New York 2025 is approaching, and Artnet News has published a guide to must-see museum and gallery shows across the city. Highlights include dual exhibitions by Kennedy Yanko at Salon 94 and James Cohan, a solo show by Salman Toor at Luhring Augustine, two concurrent Picasso exhibitions at Gagosian and Almine Rech, and a major survey of Rashid Johnson at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The guide covers emerging and established artists, with shows running from April through July 2025.

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trending_up market schedule May 28, 2025 visibility 27 link 14 artists, 2 galleries

the appraisal jack whitten

The article reports on the Museum of Modern Art's retrospective "Jack Whitten: The Messenger," which runs through August 2 and features 175 works including paintings, sculpture, and archival materials. Curator Michelle Kuo describes Whitten's "endless innovation," noting that art handlers were astonished by his pioneering techniques. Whitten, who died in 2018 at age 78, moved from Alabama to New York in 1960, attended Cooper Union, and was influenced by jazz and figures like Willem de Kooning and Romare Bearden. The article also examines Whitten's art market, highlighting his auction record of $2.66 million for "Special Checking" (1974) at Sotheby's in 2019, and noting that while prices are rising, his work remains undervalued compared to peers like Gerhard Richter.

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rate_review review schedule May 23, 2025 visibility 21 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

lorna simpson met museum painting survey review

Lorna Simpson's paintings are the subject of a new survey exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, titled "Source Notes," on view through November 2. The show features over 20 paintings created between 2014 and 2024, marking the first exhibition to survey Simpson's output in this medium. Curated by Lauren Rosati, the exhibition aims to provide an overview of her painterly practice while connecting it to her collage work, with two vitrines displaying her collages to illustrate the fluidity between the two practices. Simpson, best known for her photography from the 1980s, debuted her paintings at the 2015 Venice Biennale organized by the late curator Okwui Enwezor.

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trending_up market schedule May 22, 2025 visibility 38 link 26 artists, 3 galleries

kenny schachter new york fair auction recap

Kenny Schachter's article for Artnet News draws a parallel between President Jimmy Carter's 1977 energy-crisis plea to lower thermostats and the current art-market response to Trump-era tariff turmoil. He reports that the spring 2025 auction cycle generated $1.25 billion, continuing a decade-long decline from the 2014 peak, with bidders spending less and big-ticket sellers stuck. Schachter also promotes his own no-reserve auction, "Hoarder #6," scheduled for July 8–17 at Phillips, and critiques Trump's economic policies and crypto ventures, name-dropping Justin Sun as a major holder of $Trump tokens.

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person people schedule May 22, 2025 visibility 27 link 32 artists, 9 galleries

maike cruse basel

Maike Cruse, the new director of Art Basel's flagship fair in Basel, is preparing for the 2025 edition opening to VIPs next week. The fair will feature 285 galleries from around the world, including the Unlimited section for large-scale works and a conceptual wheat field by Agnes Denes originally planted at the World Trade Center in 1982, now growing at the Messeplatz. In an interview, Cruse discusses her transition from leading Gallery Weekend Berlin for a decade, the evolution of Basel as an art market hub, and her vision for rejuvenating the fair while maintaining its regional identity.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 22, 2025 visibility 30 link 20 artists, 9 galleries

see all artworks unlimited 2024 art basel switzerland

Art Basel's Unlimited sector opened on Monday at the Messeplatz in Basel, featuring 70 large-scale projects selected from 93 galleries. Curated by Giovanni Carmine, the showcase includes works such as Agnes Denes' wheat field installation, Mario Ceroli's peace-themed flags, Christo's wrapped Volkswagen Beetle (priced at $4 million), and pieces by Lutz Bacher, Alex Da Corte, and Anna Uddenberg. VIP collectors and museum directors, including Paul Ettlinger and Chris Dercon, were among the first attendees, with galleries using early social media posts to signal status and generate buzz.

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trending_up market schedule May 20, 2025 visibility 15 link 5 artists, 2 galleries

estate of susan rothenberg who fused symbolism with abstraction joins hauser wirth

Hauser & Wirth, the mega-gallery with locations across three continents, has announced its representation of the estate of Susan Rothenberg, the influential painter who died in 2020. Rothenberg, known for her psychologically charged works featuring horses, disembodied limbs, and uncanny landscapes, was previously represented by Sperone Westwater gallery from 1987 until her death. The gallery will debut Rothenberg's work at Art Basel in June 2025, followed by her first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in New York in September 2025.

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pilar corrias new gallery london 2023

Pilar Corrias is expanding her London gallery with a new 5,000-square-foot flagship space at 49-51 Conduit Street in Mayfair, featuring 16-foot ceilings and street-level access. The gallery, now 15 years old, has grown from representing 4 to 35 artists, including top-selling names like Christina Quarles. Corrias decided to open the new space after a four-year search, citing its rare size and industrial character as a contrast to her existing Savile Row location, which she will retain. The first exhibition in the new gallery will showcase new paintings by Christina Quarles.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 19, 2025 visibility 23 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

newsmakers takashi murakami gagosian cleveland

Takashi Murakami opened his latest exhibition, “JAPONISME → Cognitive Revolution: Learning from Hiroshige,” at Gagosian New York, building on a 2024 presentation at the Brooklyn Museum. A second show, “Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow,” opens later this month at the Cleveland Museum of Art, expanding on a 2022 iteration at the Broad in Los Angeles with new works and a monumental installation reimagining a Japanese Buddhist temple. In an interview with ARTnews, Murakami discusses his process of copying historical works—from Hiroshige’s ukiyo-e prints to Monet and Van Gogh—as a method of cultural excavation, incorporating UFOs as symbols of awareness.

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trending_up market schedule May 16, 2025 visibility 24 link 11 artists, 1 gallery

who is marlene dumas highest selling living woman artist

At a Christie’s New York 21st-century art sale, Marlene Dumas’s painting *Miss January* (1997) sold for $13.6 million with premium, setting a new auction record for the most expensive artwork by a living woman artist. The work, estimated at $12–18 million, narrowly surpassed the previous record of $12.4 million held by Jenny Saville since 2018. Dumas, a 71-year-old South African painter based in Amsterdam, has built a steady market over decades, with her galleries carefully managing her work to avoid speculation.

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article news schedule May 16, 2025 visibility 35 link 19 artists, 5 galleries

dynamo room uffner lius frieze wet paint

Artnet News's 'Wet Paint' gossip column reports from Frieze Week in New York, noting a prevailing cultural pessimism fueled by essays on the death of culture and the impact of the second Trump administration. Amidst this, Jeff Koons's 'Hulk Elvis' sculptures at Gagosian's Frieze booth (priced at $3 million each, with one sold) offered a perverse relief. The column also highlights the second edition of the Esther art fair at the Estonian House, described as an 'aura fair' prioritizing community and a welcoming environment over strict commercial focus, contrasting with the more predictable Frieze fair.

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artist made furniture

This article explores the growing trend of artist-made furniture, which blurs the line between functional design and fine art. It highlights how artists like Salvador Dalí, Isamu Noguchi, Donald Judd, Tracey Emin, and the duo Les Lalanne have created pieces that invite physical interaction—such as sitting or touching—while retaining high art status. Gallerist Massimo de Carlo notes that collectors are drawn to this merging of art and life, and that such works offer both conceptual depth and investment value. The article also notes market disparities, with editions of furniture costing far less than unique works, though some pieces, like a François-Xavier Lalanne rhinoceros desk, have sold for nearly $20 million at auction.

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