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In October 2022, the Parisian gallery Almine Rech presented a painting by American artist Julie Curtiss at Artissima—a female silhouette with blue hair, half-painting, half-sculpture, sold in under two hours for €85,000. What made the transaction remarkable wasn’t the price, but the location: Turin, a city better known for its automotive industry…
On October 15, 2019, a wooden crate was loaded into a climate-controlled truck outside the Gagosian Gallery in Paris. Inside lay a Pablo Picasso drawing valued at 12 million euros. Destination: the Frieze Masters fair in London. The journey seemed simple—450 kilometers, six hours by road. Yet this trip would cost 8,000 euros in insurance, require…
In 2022, the Almine Rech gallery in Paris invested nearly 2.3 million euros to renovate its 400-square-meter space on Avenue Matignon. The result? A pristine white jewel box, equipped with state-of-the-art air conditioning and infinitely adjustable LED lighting, capable of hosting works as delicate as a Cy Twombly drawing or as immersive as a…
In 2005, Julie Mehretu exhibited for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Among the visitors, Holland Cotter, art critic for The New York Times, lingered in front of her monumental canvases. A few days later, his review appeared: "Mehretu’s paintings are like visual symphonies of urban chaos, where layers of ink and acrylic…
In October 2022, Hauser & Wirth made a radical choice. To transport the works from Tatiana Trouvé’s exhibition The Guardian from New York to Paris, they abandoned air freight. Instead, the crates crossed the Atlantic aboard a zero-emission sailing cargo ship, the Grain de Sail II. The journey took three weeks instead of a few hours, but the carbon…
On March 12, 2026, Paris’s Thaddaeus Ropac gallery announced a complete overhaul of its management system. The reason? An erroneous invoice sent to a Saudi collector for a Georg Baselitz work—an error that cost €18,000 in bank fees for a misrouted international transfer. That day, the IT director presented three options: Artlogic, used by Gagosian…
On March 12, 2019, just hours before the opening of the exhibition "Picasso and Dance" at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, a solid wooden crate was held up at the Canadian border. Inside was La Danse (1925), a major work on loan from the Musée Picasso Paris. The reason for the hold-up? An incomplete temporary export form. While…
In 2023, the Musée d’Orsay rewrote all its labels for its "Manet/Degas" exhibition. The result? A reading rate that jumped from 32% to 68% in three months. Yet this wasn’t the first time a French museum had tried to tame the beast of exhibition text. Since the 1980s, curators have swung between two extremes: academic jargon that drives away 80% of…
On March 12, 2024, at 10:07 AM, an email landed in 47,321 inboxes. Its subject line: "Your private invitation to JR’s secret exhibition – access this weekend only." Three hours later, Perrotin Gallery’s servers recorded 18,456 opens—a 39.2% rate, well above the sector average of 22%. Meanwhile, just a few streets away, an emerging gallery in Le…
In March 2024, Unit London gallery inaugurated its first fair entirely dedicated to AI-generated art. Among the works on display, a series of digital portraits by Turkish artist Refik Anadol drew particular attention. These faces, created from a model trained on thousands of historical photographs, seemed to float in a hybrid space between…