Art Basel in Basel 2015; photo by Alec Bastian for Artsy
Art Basel 2015
Art Basel Hong Kong
Art Basel in Hong Kong 2015; image © Art Basel
Art Basel Hong Kong concluded its third edition this week with impressive sales reports. The fair was launched in 2013 as a satellite to Art Basel, the 45-year old fair in Switzerland that is the most significant annual event in the contemporary art world, and Art Basel in Miami Beach, which was launched in 2002.
The Best of 2014
Ólafur Elíasson, Contact, 2014, installation view at Fondation Louis Vuitton; image courtesy of Studio Ólafur Elíasson / image © Iwan Baan
The art world was full of superlatives in 2014. New museums opened, fairs and auctions set records, and we added fairtigue, biennihilism, and crapstraction to our ArtSpeak vocabularies. With 2014 behind us, let’s review the best of the year and preview what’s ahead in 2015.
Weekend Reading
at center, the new Anderson Collection at Stanford University; at right, the Cantor Arts Center and Richard Serra’s “Sequence” installation; photo by Tim Griffith for Ennead Architects
Weekend Reading, a summary of the week’s art news from codylee.co.
Highlights this week include museum expansions, auction headlines, and forthcoming exhibitions.