Benjamin Genocchio
In its inaugural edition, Art Basel in Hong Kong welcomed over 240 galleries from all over the world to the Hong Kong Exhibition Centre. Organizers estimate that art by more than 3,000 artists is on display.ARTINFO's Benjamin Genocchio takes us on a tour of...
On a rain-soaked afternoon last summer, Nyoman Masriadi sat smoking in his luxurious home studio in the north of Yogyakarta, Indonesia’s unofficial art capital on the island of Java. He lit up a Marlboro and, making a gesture toward the rice paddy adjacent to...
With another year of record-breaking auction results behind us, and in anticipation of further frantic activity at the early 2013 auctions in London, it would seem prudent to reflect upon the increasing acceptance of art as what finance and investment folk...
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — This year's Abu Dhabi Art shows that this wealthy emirate has a small but possibly significant edge in the battle with nearby Dubai to become home to the region’s most important art fair — at least in the future. It...
We’ve all read media reports of internal problems at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles — exhibitions canceled, staff fired, and artist trustees resigning in protest. Reporters on the West Coast are having a field day. These problems can probably...
With a $15 million donation, Simon Mordant, co-CEO of the independent corporate advisory firm Greenhill Caliburn, and his wife, Catriona, led the recent $53 million campaign to renovate the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), in Sydney. In addition to...
BASEL, Switzerland — Art Basel never fails to dazzle, and this year has been no exception. As I noted in my report yesterday, many of the big dealers seemed to amp up their game as if to compensate for concerns about the European economy. Some...
Having just visited the inaugural iteration of Frieze New York, one thing is abundantly clear — this fair isn’t going to last here, at least not in its present location, organization, and form.Randall’s Island is too troublesome to get to, and once you are...
