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Zilkens' News Blog Archive

Another tent - this was supposedly about the future of art. Fundraising for the project took centre stage.
Photo Stephan Zilkens

Zilkens' News Blog 50 2024

That was it, Miami Art Week with Art Basel Miami, Art Miami, NADA, SCOPE, Untitled, Aqua, Design Miami, Bit Basel, Ink Miami Beach and a number of private gallery or museum events and exhibitions. However, VOLTA and PULSE could no longer be found. And Chinese artists, who flooded the market five years ago, were hardly to be seen with their maximally impasto colour reliefs. Africa ... read more

Above clouds … Photography Stephan Zilkens

Zilkens' News Blog 49 2024

November is over and after 20 more nights of sleep, the days will be getting longer again. Christmas is then 48 hours later, which once again comes as a surprise to many. It is less surprising, despite a great result for a Magritte and a moronic one for a banana with adhesive tape, that the results of the November auctions in New York were even ... read more

Zilkens' News Blog 48 2024

There is plenty in Stefan Kobel's world to read about. The German art trade is pleased about the lowering of the value added tax from 19% to 7%. There are supposedly countries in the EU that demand even less tax from the art trade, but the difference is no longer as significant.Have a super week, everyone! Next week, "the" art market conference will take place ... read more

On the difference between administration and the free market economy. Seen in Solothurn. Photo Stephan Zilkens

Zilkens' News Blog 47 2024

It seems that art and politics are caught up in a kind of pulsating attraction and repulsion, and not only in Germany. Italy has a minister of culture, where Germany has a commissioner for art and media, because culture is a matter for the federal states. Alessandro Gini, as the new Italian minister is called, has just cancelled the contracts of four museum directors who ... read more

Do good and at least show it; our contribution to the Society for Modern Art 2024 - Photo: Stephan Zilkens

Zilkens' News Blog 46 2024

There are journalists of both sexes who seriously report that the American electoral system is complex! The Winner takes it all has nothing to do with complexity. The principle creates large majorities that are far from protecting minorities. However, it also creates power that is not subject to any democratic control by an opposition that is based on anything close to the actual majority situation. ... read more

Not a ballot box - Photo: Stephan Zilkens

Zilkens' News Blog 45 2024

If you think about it, Christmas will be over in eight weeks. And there is a lot going on between now and then that has nothing to do with the US elections tomorrow: Artissima in Turin has just ended – or so I'm told, it was a success. The European Registrars are meeting in Rome from Wednesday for three days of lectures by experts, but ... read more