Kobel's Art Weekly 51 2024
The last fair of the year has been held. With Art Antwerp, Art Brussels in the neighbouring city allows itself a free hand that embodies a relatively new type of art fair that no longer expects visitors to travel from far and wide. Julia Stellmann characterises the event for Kunstforum: “The regional nature of the fair is something that all ... read more
Kobel's Art Weekly 50 2024
Exhibitors and visitors at Art Basel Miami Beach experienced a better mood than recently on the art market, but remained cautiously optimistic in private conversations. Since Art Basel has been stingy with invitations for international art market writers for some time now because it wants to focus more on regional reporting and because of the ecological footprint and such (it also costs less), they depend ... read more
Kobel's Art Weekly 49 2024
When someone points at the moon, the fool will look at the finger – or so the Buddhist wisdom goes. Or maybe it was Bruce Lee who said it. In any case, the shocking thing about the banana man is not that he has eaten the fruit (unfortunately not the fruit of knowledge). Nor the ... read more
Kobel's Art Weekly 48 2024
Banana again. In an unusually extensive report, even CNN's Oscar Holland talks about the sale of Maurizio Catellan's work at Sotheby's in New York for $6.24 million. The Chinese collector Justin Sun will pay with his play money from the crypto-currency industry. He had indicated that he wanted to eat the banana. Perhaps a suitable use can also be found ... read more
Kobel's Art Weekly 47 2024
First things first: the White Cube party, which used to ring in the Miami season every year, is no more, as Annie Armstrong of Artnet (paywall) and a few other things that you might have preferred not to know: "The event was notorious for letting the more buttoned-up patrons of the art world let their hair down. Marc Spiegler, ... read more
Kobel's Art Weekly 46 2024
Art Cologne doesn't let anything throw it off course that easily, notes Christof Habres for recalls the tradition of the fair in the Tagesspiegel: “With so much nostalgia, one cannot help but think of the glory days of the longest-running modern and contemporary art fair in the eighties: an era that had yet to ... read more