Art Fair
In Aspen, a New Art Fair Follows the Money
A down art market? Depressed dealers? Fatigued buyers?
None of that matters in Aspen, Colo. At least, that is the theory behind a new art fair in the city when the global arts industry is in a slump. Aspen is both rich and spendy, with one of the highest concentrations of ultrawealthy homeowners in the country.
Even the worst of times is not all that bad here, said Doug Leibinger, a longtime real estate agent in Aspen, who represented the seller in a $77 million cash deal for an eight-bedroom home in April, setting a Colorado sales record during a downturn in the U.S. housing market. The record was broken again with another Aspen deal just a week later.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/arts/design/aspen-art-fair.html
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/
