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In October 2023, the Parisian gallery Sans Titre exhibited for the first time at Paris Internationale. Its stand, modest but carefully curated, showcased works by three emerging artists. Over three days, it sold two pieces to private collectors and signed a contract with a regional institution. Tota
On October 14, 2023, at precisely 7 p.m., the Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris welcomed about a hundred people for a conversation between artist Tacita Dean and philosopher Emanuele Coccia. No harsh spotlight, no varnished wooden lectern, no PowerPoint. Instead, two midnight-blue velvet armchairs arr
In 1980, inside a former massage parlor in Times Square, thirty or so artists took over an abandoned building. Among them were a young Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Jenny Holzer. No gallerist, no contracts, no commissions to pay. Just walls covered in graffiti, improvised performances, and
On 16 October 2024, the Musée des Arts et Métiers opens its doors to Carbon Footprint, an exhibition that could well redefine the standards of museum design. Behind the mycelium walls and recycled aluminium display cases lies a quiet revolution: for the first time, a French museum of this scale has
May 1988, London. Cigarette smoke mingles with the smell of draft beer in the Wetherspoons in New Cross. Around a Formica table, Damien Hirst, 23 years old and still a student at Goldsmiths, and Jay Jopling, 25, founder of White Cube, seal a deal that will upend contemporary art. No written contract
In March 2023, Galerie Perrotin inaugurated its third space in Seoul, in the trendy Hannam-dong district. Three months later, sales from the exhibition Lee Bul: In This New World had already surpassed annual projections. This success wasn’t accidental—it reflects a carefully crafted strategy to conq
On October 15, 2021, a visitor trips over a poorly secured cable in a Parisian gallery. Their shoulder strikes an easel, sending a Pablo Picasso canvas valued at 12 million euros crashing to the floor. The frame shatters, the canvas tears twenty centimeters. In the minutes that follow, three calls a
In 2018, a surprise raid on a Parisian gallery in Le Marais uncovered a sophisticated system of falsified invoices. Investigators found that the gallery was systematically declaring margins of 30% on works purchased at much higher prices, thereby avoiding hundreds of thousands of euros in VAT. This
In March 2020, as the doors of FIAC closed under government orders, Galerie Perrotin launched an emergency virtual tour of its exhibition "Hans Hartung: The Factory of Gesture." In forty-eight hours, the team had scanned the 800 square meters of the Parisian space using a Matterport Pro2, turning a
In March 2024, the Parisian gallery Templon launched a complete overhaul of its website. Three months later, its sales team noticed a worrying trend: the bounce rate had climbed by 42%, and inquiries had dropped by 28%. Yet the artworks were still there, the artists just as prestigious as before, an
In 2023, the Parisian gallery Chantal Crousel received over 300 applications for two unpaid internships. Among the applicants, 87% held a master’s degree in art history or cultural management, and 42% had already completed at least one internship in the sector. Yet none of these qualifications guara
Paris, October 1988. In a disused warehouse in London’s Docklands, a handful of fine arts students organise a group exhibition called Freeze. Among them is a 23-year-old named Damien Hirst. The press release, dashed off on a typewriter, fits on a single typed page, mixing rough biographies and descr
In 2018, a young French artist, Laure Prouvost, won the Turner Prize with an immersive installation blending videos, sculptures, and the scent of damp earth. Her work, Wantee, was purchased by Tate Modern for £120,000—a modest sum for an institution of its stature, but a fortune for an artist then u
In 2023, the Parisian gallery Air de Paris closed its doors after thirty years in operation. In a restrained statement, its founders spoke of "the impossibility of maintaining a viable economic model" in a market dominated by mega-galleries and fleeting micro-spaces. It was not a spectacular bankrup
On January 15, 2025, L.A. Louver gallery announced its closure after forty-nine years in business. In a restrained statement, the owners explained their decision as a response to "the rapid evolution of the artistic landscape." What went unsaid was that the rent for their Venice Boulevard space had
In 2020, as London endured its first lockdown, Nicholas Logsdail, founder of Lisson Gallery, and Harry Blain of Blain|Southern transformed a Victorian townhouse on Cromwell Place into a "gallery hotel." For six weeks, rooms once reserved for the bourgeois salons of the 19th century hosted temporary
In February 2023, Hauser & Wirth’s London gallery inaugurated Theaster Gates: Black Vessel. The exhibition didn’t merely present sculptures and paintings—it transformed the space into a meditation on Black architecture, the memory of materials, and urban spirituality. Visitors wandered between walls
At 10:02 AM on March 15, 2024, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery opens its booth at TEFAF Maastricht. In the three hours that follow, its team will exchange 147 business cards, arrange 23 post-fair meetings, and identify five serious collectors for a major work by Georg Baselitz. Yet according to a recent Art
In 2023, Metro Pictures, the New York institution founded in 1980, closed its doors after forty-three years in operation. In a restrained statement, its founders, Helene Winer and Janelle Reiring, cited "unsustainable costs" and "growing economic pressure." Yet Metro Pictures had launched the career
In 2014, the Vatican replaced the halogen spotlights in the Sistine Chapel with LEDs. The result? Immediate controversy. Purists accused the new lighting of "sterilizing" Michelangelo, while conservators celebrated a 90% reduction in UV emissions. Yet no one could deny the obvious: for the first tim
In 2020, as the pandemic shuttered gallery doors and canceled fairs, David Zwirner made a decision that shook the art market. The New York dealer announced he would pay artists 60% of online sales, flipping the traditional 50/50 split that had governed the sector for over a century. This initiative,
In February 2023, Galerie Perrotin in Paris quietly installed sensors in its Marais space. Not to monitor, but to understand. For three months, these small devices recorded visitor movements: where they paused, which works held their attention, how long they spent in front of each piece. The results
In 2019, the Gagosian gallery discovered that a Mark Rothko painting, valued at $20 million, had vanished from its records for five years. The work hadn’t been stolen, damaged, or even sold. It had simply evaporated into the maze of an inventory system grown too complex for its own creators. Far fro
The podcast has become an essential communication format in the contemporary cultural landscape. Institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern and MoMA produce audio series attracting hundreds of thousands of listeners each month. This format, long the preserve of media outlets and major ins