Jérôme Delgado | May 4, 2020

The outbreak of Covid-19 in Quebec has not yet put a single art gallery out of business. As with all businesses, however, the image of empty premises is a sign that things are not going well. Simon Blais, a gallery owner with 30 years of experience, feels the effects of the crisis even in his electronic exchanges…

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Tim Schneider | April 20, 2020

Our columnist assesses global supply chains and data on cultural institutions to consider the revised look of a post-shutdown art market.

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Andrew Goldstein | Avril 20, 2020

Here are eight of the most memorable works from the Dallas Art Fair’s virtual edition.

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Andras Szanto | April 14, 2020

The cultural strategy expert Andras Szanto offers a step-by-step look at how museums could help the public regain a sense of normalcy.

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Brian Boucher | April 2020

The Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report shows that the online shift was already in place – with Covid-19, it now has a new impetus

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Julia Halperin | April 6, 2020

Zwirner’s “Studio” platform kicks off with Wolfgang Tillmans, while its “Exceptional Works” secondary-market venue debuts with Josef Albers.

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Jerry Saltz | April 2nd, 2020

Life after the coronavirus will be different,

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Kate Brown & Eileen Kinsella | April 2, 2020

We canvassed insiders for advice about what to do in the months ahead.

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March 16, 2020

After canceling its fair, Art Basel Hong Kong will present more than 2,000 works online with an estimated value of $270 million. That’s just the beginning as the art world goes virtual.

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Eileen Kinsella | March 30, 2020

Zwirner is hosting a dozen smaller New York galleries in one virtual space.

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Elizabeth Dee | March 23, 2020

The founder of Independent looks back on earlier crises and proposes ways to build a stronger art market on the other side of this one.

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Kate Brown | March 25, 2020

“Artists are not only indispensable, but also vital, especially now,” says the country’s culture minister.

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Naomi Rea | March 24, 2020

Vortic uses AR and VR technologies to create customizable gallery spaces.

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Vous n’avez pas tout vu | Season 3 (Episode 064)

A petition is currently circulating on the Web asking Radio-Canada to provide more coverage of the visual arts on its various platforms. It deplores the fact that the coverage favours showbizz artists. Why is it so difficult for the visual arts to be seen by the media? A discussion with Nicolas Mavrikakis.

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Tim Schneider | March 19, 2020

Among the major lessons is that transparency benefits everyone.

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Kate Brown & Eileen Kinsella | March 19, 2020

Small and mid-range galleries are the most vulnerable to economic shifts, but they are also more spry.

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Philippe Papineau | January 16, 2020

Une pétition lancée il y a trois semaines et qui cumule maintenant plus de 7500 signatures réclame de Radio-Canada une meilleure représentation des arts visuels sur ses différentes plateformes. La couverture de la chaîne publique, sauf exception, se résume au travail de grands noms issus du monde du divertissement, déplore le texte.

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Scott Reyburn | December 2nd, 2019

Immersive experiences define the most popular contemporary exhibitions, but where does this leave the commercial art world?

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Joan Verdon | December 1st, 2019

This year is on track be another record-breaker for online spending and mobile shopping. Mike Steib, CEO of Artsy, says those online spenders are reaching for their phones not just to buy clothes or groceries, but to buy works of fine art, some costing six figures or more.

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Entrepreneur Robert Norton outlines how emerging technologies will usher in a new era of artist retained equity.

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In a series of articles, the authors of Artsy Editorial compose a report highlighting the similarities and differences between the spending habits, motivations and challenges of online collectors and compares them to those of traditional art buyers.

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Professor Olav Velthuis | October 12, 2019

The contemporary art market is on the verge of a deep institutional crisis. So deep, that it is hard to predict what the way out will be and what the art market’s institutional framework will look like in one or two decades from now.

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Tim Schneider | September 23, 2019

Our columnist connects the dots between old-school thinking about price transparency and old-school thinking about what museums should buy.

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Elizabeth Dee | August 26, 2019

In the first of a two-part series, Independent founder Elizabeth Dee considers the biggest problem facing art fairs today.

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Alexander Forbes | July 31, 2019

In 1897, standing on the deck of his yacht the Corsair, financier J.P. Morgan allegedly responded to a guest inquiring about the boat’s cost: “If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.” This attitude has since become seared into the American subconscious through all manner of media. And it’s one the art industry tends to embrace.

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