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Frieze’s CEO Talks Art in LA and the Future of the Fair Empire
Grab your Leo goggles and Hailey Bieber–endorsed Erewhon smoothies, we’ve got some art to see.
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2023 Preview: An Unprecedented Spree of Brand Activations and Picture Buying…Just Like Every Year.
Your guide to achieving synergistic nirvana when the annual art fair and marketing bonanza kicks off in South Florida next week.
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Paris Art Basel, London Frieze, and Scenes From the European Art Week Power Contest
As all of art-dom descended on the European capitals for a pair of fairs and an expansive list of complementary programming, one couldn’t help but take the two cities’ cultural temperatures.
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Kevin Love, Basketball Guy, Renaissance Man, Has Some Art He’d Like You to Buy
With the NBA season gearing up, the Miami Heat forward and burgeoning collector has helped curate a Sotheby’s sale. Plus more in this week’s column.
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The Armory Show Enters a New Era in an Uncertain Art Market
The New York standby, under new ownership, was one of several stops on a packed art world calendar as galleries continued to weather an up-and-down season for sellers.
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How David Zwirner Turned a Forgotten Block in LA Into Prime Real Estate
Angelenos in the art world have been talking less about the gallery itself and more about its location.
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Get Out Your Checkbook, It’s Frieze Week-Month in Manhattan
As buyers and galleries arrived for the annual spring fair, and its many attendant events, the hype was slightly muted; though the sales were still happening, if you knew where to look.
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The Secret to Owen Wilson’s Infinite Chill? Art—And Lots of It
The actor, who plays a Bob Ross–esque character in the new comedy Paint, boasts plenty of not-so-secret art world bona fides, as he revealed on a recent stroll through LA’s Hammer Museum.
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The Willem Dafoe Theory of Everything…Or at Least Everything New York
The actor, who has long circled—and occasionally been encircled by—the New York art world, talks about work, life, and being trapped in a penthouse with a billion dollars’ worth of paintings.
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How a Pseudo-Secret, Celeb-Friendly Poker Game Became the Art World’s Playground
The raucous story of a small dealers-and-artists game in LA that has grown to draw the likes of Leo, Ellen, and Richard Prince on its way to becoming a full-blown tournament of champs.
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The Los Angeles Art World Is Having Its Gilded Age Moment
While recent years have seen LA become a destination art town, it’s now operating at another level, as the hubbub surrounding Frieze this week has revealed.
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SBF, Bored Ape Yacht Club, and the Spectacular Hangover After the Art World’s NFT Gold Rush
Auction houses and talent agencies thought the Web3 works were a fast track to billions. If it weren’t for a global crypto meltdown, they might have pulled it off.
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Mega-Billionaire Ken Griffin Has Moved His Masterpieces to the Beach
The Citadel founder and big-time GOP donor proudly picked up stakes from Chicago and moved to Florida earlier this year. An eye-popping portion of his collection has quietly followed.
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Art Basel Miami Beach: What Does the Future Hold for the Most Raucous Week in American Arts?
With new owners and new leaders, the art world is wondering what the fair’s third decade could hold. Plus Leo, Oprah, and more in this week’s column, compiled live from South Beach!
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Arne Glimcher, the Art World’s Original Pacemaker, Is Starting Over at 84
Why the octogenarian mega-gallery founder is going back to basics, including working the front desk, with his latest project. Plus: gallery hopping with Leo and Leto and more in this week’s column.
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What Was Dimes Square?
The tiny but infamous cluster of Manhattan blocks where skaters, intellectuals, and the art world collide is entering its luxury-hotel era. Not everyone is pleased.
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Is the $100 Million Car the New $100 Million Artwork?
A rare Mercedes sold for $143 million, doubling the last record. Are cars worth that much, or are automobiles just the new asset where billionaires park their funds?
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“Who…Are All These People?” Inside Balenciaga’s Unprecedented Fashion Show at the New York Stock Exchange
Kanye West, Megan Thee Stallion, Eric Adams, and a who’s who of the art world flocked to creative director Demna Gvasalia’s historic runway show, the first time the public has been allowed on the trading floor since 9/11.
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“I Either Wanted It, or I Wanted That Guy to Pay”: Inside the Wild West Auction for The Sugar Shack
The record-setting sale for the painting by Black artist Ernie Barnes, featured in the credits of Good Times, was anything but normal, as poker pro and energy trader Bill Perkins faced off in single combat against a mystery buyer—who might have been Mellody Hobson, wife of George Lucas.
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Can Eric Adams’s New York Finally Make “Art Week” Happen?
The city has decided to brand the first full stretch of May as a week devoted to the visual arts, reviving an idea not seen since the late days of the Bloomberg administration. Will this time be different? Our new mayor says so—now that he’s back from Los Angeles.