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Kobel's Art Weekly Archive

Javier Beruff "....and Russia if your listening"; free via creativesforukraine.com

Kobel's Art Weekly 30 2024

Devorah Lauter has analysed how smaller and mid-size galleries are dealing with the current market weakness for Artnews: “For these smaller and mid-size galleries, however, the slowdown makes the calculus around fairs trickier, particularly when you consider the overhead for a fair. As multiple dealers told ARTnews, shipping, framing, storage, and other overhead costs have risen dramatically, with [gallerist Monique] ... read more

Summer edition, part 3

Kobel's Art Weekly 29 2024

The third and final part of the review is about the auction season. Werner Remm tells the exciting story of the rediscovered "Portrait of Miss Lieser" by Gustav Klimt, the most expensive work of art ever offered at an auction house in Austria with an estimate of 30 to 50 million, in Artmagazine: "The work itself, a prime example of a ... read more

Summer edition, part 2 of 3

Kobels Art Weekly 28 2024

As the first international art fair of the year, Art SG in Singapore is testing the market with its second edition. Naima Morelli reports in The Art Newspaper of - surprise! - "swift sales": "While the gallery participation dropped by 29% this year, this is not felt when walking around the stands. Works of art now have more breathing space, with galleries ... read more

Summer edition, part 1 of 3

Kobel's Art Weekly 27 2024

The year 2024 is halfway over; it's time for a look back, as always in three parts. Hubertus Butin's thematisation of the backdating of artists' own artworks at the beginning of the year must be considered almost prophetic. He addresses the not entirely unproblematic practice of some artists of backdating their own works in the FAZ: "In contrast to Ernst Ludwig ... read more

Credit Crunch in the art market; created using Stable Diffusion

Kobel's Art Weekly 26 2024

Daniel Cassady reports the falling credit rating of Sotheby's at Artnews: "S&P Global Ratings has downgraded Sotheby's credit rating from B to B- due to falling revenues and rising costs during the first quarter of 2024, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal (Paywall). S&P ratings, which are issued to both companies and ... read more

Art Basel 2024; photo Stefan Kobel

Kobel's Art Weekly 25 2024

It was Art Basel in Basel again, which this year was very European in character on the visitor side. There were still hotel rooms available in the city at triple-digit prices, the crowds in the exhibition halls seemed less intense than usual at the opening and the mood among the dealers was rather subdued. In Handelsblatt (possibly paywall), Susanne Schreiber ... read more