Most galleries participating in the 2012 Melbourne Art Fair reported strong sales and an overall positive experience, although some dealers were of the opinion that visitor numbers were down on previous years. Read more
Hannah Höch was a huge discovery for me, the only female Dada artist who was able to hold her own in that male environment. I wasn’t consciously thinking in those terms at the time, but when I looked at her work I could really relate to it.
I have no idea what happens on the other side of a retrospective. De Kooning said it should never be done while you’re alive, but the research reveals that he had at least two. So what are you gonna do?
This winter the resort village of Gstaad, Switzerland, becomes an unlikely spot on the art world map, thanks to Neville Wakefield and Olympia Scarry’s newest curatorial project.
The U.K.-based Paul Aitken was working in tech start-ups during the market crash in the fall of 2008. The resulting credit crunch inspired him to found Borro, an Internet-based lender offering up to $1 million against personal assets.