Art Fair
The Era of the Art Fair: CEO Noah Horowitz on Art Basel’s Global Impact
Art Basel CEO Noah Horowitz isn’t used to doing things the old-fashioned way. Before stepping up to lead the largest, most prestigious art fair operator in the world, he was Basel’s director of the Americas, in charge of the company’s most contemporary-leaning show in Miami Beach. Now he turns his attention from one of the youngest major art cities in the world to one of the oldest: Paris.
Launched in 2022, the same year Horowitz became CEO of the company, Art Basel Paris—running this year from October 18 to 20—is the company’s latest endeavor. Renamed from the unwieldy Paris+ par Art Basel, it’s both smaller and more ambitious in scope than its counterparts in Basel, Hong Kong and Miami. With the name change comes a new venue: the Grand Palais, the extraordinary glass-domed exhibition hall built for the 1900 World’s Fair that now functions as an art museum. For its first two years the fair was held in the Grand Palais Éphémère, a temporary venue built in the Champ de Mars to substitute for the original Grand Palais while it underwent renovations in preparation for the Paris Olympics. Both venues hosted events during the Games, with a terrific fencing tournament in the Grand Palais, and now Art Basel will go en garde in the historic venue.
Read more: https://businesstravelerusa.com/profiles/noah-horowitz-on-art-basel-global-impact/
Three passionate Lancaster based freelance artists, Hannah Corbett, Lidia Ranns, and Julie Evans, are uniting their creative forces to transform the city into a vibrant hub of artistic expression with the expanded Lancaster Art Fair (LAF), running from August 19th to 23rd, 2025.
This year, LAF is evolving into a larger, city wide festival, thanks to their dedicated collaboration and partnerships with established local arts organisations.
Source: Lancashire Post
Contemporary Lynx is a proud media partner of the SPARK Art Fair, which will take place from 21 to 23 March in MARX HALLE in Vienna.
SPARK Art Fair Vienna advocates for a new art fair concept, addressing the challenges of the art market. Based on a strong trust in art and the role of the galleries in the primary art market, SPARK Art Fair Vienna is the only international art fair focusing exclusively on solo presentations.
Read More:https://contemporarylynx.co.uk/lynx-x-spark-art-fair
On the plane back from Miami, I add up expenses versus income from this year’s Untitled Art Fair. It is our third year here, and our first bust. As a small Midwestern gallery, two major art fairs a year — Untitled in Miami and the Outsider Art Fair in New York — can generate a quarter of our annual income. Even more importantly, they help us develop a national collector base for regional artists. There is no other way to survive.
It is expensive to participate in more selective and carefully curated international fairs, such as Untitled. Our three-walled, 14 x 14-foot space cost $17,400. Housing for the staff, transportation, food, and additional framing rounded out the total to about $30,000.
Read more: https://hyperallergic.com/978630/my-small-gallery-lost-money-at-an-art-fair-it-hurt/
