Art Basel
Art Basel
'Can the art market thrive in a sharing economy?'
Melanie Gerlis on how millennials don’t seem to have the same collecting gene as previous generations
Basilea: Turn on, tune in and chill at the Messeplatz
Creative Time’s Art Basel project abounds with everything from gravel deposits to DJ-led meditations
Art Basel tests Turner Prize’s sway with foreign buyers
Is the UK’s premier award a big draw for international collectors?
Metallica bassist Jason Newsted gets first show in Basel and more gossip
Plus, Harry Potter gets cocky
Multi-billion-dollar Picasso show heads to the Beyeler
The exhibition, which opens in February, will focus on Blue and Rose Periods
Marshall arts: how collectors fell for Kerry James
Artist lands two big sales at Art Basel after record-breaking auction result
In pictures: Disco balls and whale watching at Design Miami/Basel
This is what caught our eye
Collector's Eye: Edouard Carmignac
The businessman, who just opened an art space on an island in the Mediterranean, on Alice in Wonderland and hanging out at Warhol's Factory
Artists as cryptofinanciers: welcome to the blockchain
Curious new relationships between art and capital are being enabled by cryptofinance, which places “monetary value” at the heart of the creative process
Plastic fantastic at Art Basel
From Gursky to Barney, our pick of five plastic-related works at the fair
Artist paints Dana Schutz's child in response to controversial Emmett Till work
The Somali-Australian artist Hamishi Farah is showing the work in Basel at the Liste fair
Etel Adnan: ‘This is the summit of my career’
The Lebanese-born artist and writer, who has a solo show at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, discusses her passion for the Swiss abstract artist.
William Kentridge honours Africans in the Great War
A taster of the artist’s latest project is on show at Art Basel ahead of its unveiling at Tate Modern in London
London's Whitechapel Gallery and Turin's Castello di Rivoli to hold joint Rakowitz survey
Artist to continue project reconstructing thousands of lost and destroyed Iraqi artefacts
Show and sell: the added value of a museum exhibition
How soon is too soon? Private collectors are selling off works as little as a few weeks after lending them to high-profile shows
Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun teams up with Ikea
Project aims to produce affordable, off-grid tools
A word with Marc Spiegler
Art Basel’s global director on collector behaviour, auction price databases and the complexity of the art market
Apartheid revisited: US museum snaps up South African photography project at Art Basel
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art “will be acquiring” a series documenting a Modernist high-rise apartment block in Johannesburg
In pictures: From treading on taxidermy to sounds from Basel's sewers
Parcours, the Art Basel section for public art projects, is "radically different" from previous editions, says its curator Samuel Leuenberger
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Cool Science
The US pioneer of digital art discusses her passion for cutting-edge biology and its influence on her new multimedia exhibition, Anti-Bodies
Three cheers for Zeng Fanzhi
Hauser & Wirth will host concurrent exhibitions of the Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi this autumn in Zurich, London and Hong Kong
Collector's Eye: Ulla Dreyfus-Best
The Basel-based collector Ulla Dreyfus-Best on her "Wunderkammer", which mixes 11th-century Italian bronzes with pieces by Jeff Koons
Is the biennial model busted?
Riga, Bangkok, São Paulo—every modern city wants a biennial. But is this good for contemporary art? Leading curators join the hot debate
Giacometti’s chaotic Paris studio brought back to life
Reconstruction at heart of new research centre preserves spirit of artist’s cluttered creative space
Gender politics to the fore at Basel satellite fairs Liste and Volta
“The personal is political—this is a clear and present undercurrent,” says Volta artistic director Amanda Coulson
Why the new Tbilisi Art Fair restores pleasure to buying art
It’s affordable, good quality, unspeculative—and the wine is great
Should big galleries subsidise smaller ones?
David Zwirner's idea that art fairs tax top dealers to support younger galleries signals major concerns over the fragile ecosystem of the art market
Outsider Art Fair postones first Basel edition
Director Andrew Edlin says the fair is still a modest operation
Artists shortlisted for 2018 BMW Art Journey
Astha Butail, the winner of last year's prize, is previewing her upcoming project at Art Basel Hong Kong