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In 2019, the Parisian gallery Kamel Mennour made a shocking discovery: a Daniel Buren canvas, entrusted to them on consignment by a collector, had vanished from their storage. After months of investigation, the work turned up—stored in a Christie’s warehouse in London, where it had been transferred
In 2019, Galerie Perrotin left the Marais to move into a former Haussmannian building on Rue de Turenne. Three years later, Hauser & Wirth opened a 1,500-square-meter space in a former warehouse on Menorca, an hour’s flight from Barcelona. Meanwhile, in Berlin, Galerie Esther Schipper relocated from
In 2023, the Palais de Tokyo generated 18% of its budget through its mediation workshops. In Roubaix, La Piscine has dedicated a permanent space to multidisciplinary workshops since 2010, attracting 30% more visitors. These figures reveal a major trend: cultural institutions are no longer content to
In February 2023, the Parisian gallery Hors-Cadre took over a former dry cleaner in the 11th arrondissement. For three weeks, the dusty shop windows became a showcase for an emerging artists’ collective exhibition. No commercial lease, no exorbitant rent, no architectural constraints—just a temporar
In September 2023, Galerie Perrotin took over a 3,000-square-meter former refrigerated warehouse in Paris’s 19th arrondissement. For six weeks, the space hosted a monumental exhibition by artist JR, transforming its crumbling walls into a vast fresco celebrating the city’s invisible workers. When th
In January 2023, Galerie Perrotin opened three exhibitions simultaneously in Paris: a solo retrospective of Gabriel Orozco on Rue de Turenne, a confrontation between the drawings of Hans Hartung and Pierre Soulages in the space on Rue Saint-Claude, and a group show titled Fragments, bringing togethe
In March 2024, the Rijksmuseum’s TikTok account posted a video where The Night Watch by Rembrandt seemed to come alive. The figures moved almost imperceptibly, as if the painting were breathing. Within 24 hours, the video had racked up 2.3 million views. Even more surprising: the museum saw an 18% i
In 2023, the Parisian gallery Amélie, Maison d’art welcomed a young tech executive who stood hesitating before an abstract canvas by Julie Curtiss. "I don’t even know where to begin," he admitted, his hands trembling slightly. The gallerist Amélie du Chalard didn’t speak to him about market value or
In 2023, during the FIAC, the Parisian gallery Chantal Crousel presented a booth of just nine square meters for artist Haegue Yang. Designed as an immersive installation with motorized Venetian blinds and brass sculptures, the space generated over 300,000 euros in sales and drew the attention of int
In October 2017, the Salvator Mundi attributed to Leonardo da Vinci sold at Christie's New York for $450.3 million — an absolute world record. A few weeks later, the painting vanished. No theft, no scandal in any judicial sense: simply, no export documentation could reliably trace its journey to Abu
In March 2017, the Wildenstein heirs appeared before the Paris criminal court for having concealed, over several decades, hundreds of works of art and several billion euros in offshore trusts in the Bahamas and Switzerland. The family, which had run one of the most powerful dealing dynasties of the
In 2022, the daily newspaper Le Monde revealed that Gagosian gallery was paying around 120,000 euros per month for its 500 square metres on the rue de Ponthieu, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. A figure that makes the head spin — but one that illustrates, by the absurd, a reality shared by every
In 2023, the Sonnabend gallery — founded in Paris in 1962 by Ileana Sonnabend, a pioneer of arte povera and American pop art in Europe — permanently closed its New York doors after several years of difficult transition. An institution that had shown Robert Rauschenberg, Gilbert & George and Jeff Koo
A few years ago, a mid-sized Parisian gallery — representing around ten artists, with annual appearances at Art Basel and FIAC — found itself in an embarrassing situation during the opening of a highly anticipated exhibition. Two important collectors had each received the same proposal for the same
In January 2017, a single work fetched 450 million dollars. Not solely because it was attributed to Leonardo da Vinci — but because the scene in which it was presented was itself a performance. At Christie's New York, Salvator Mundi stood alone in a darkened room, lit by a single beam, preceded by a
In 2013, Iwan Wirth bought a dilapidated farm in Somerset for a modest sum. His partners looked on with puzzlement. Ten years later, Hauser & Wirth Somerset had become one of the most photographed cultural destinations in Europe, with a restaurant praised by the food press, gardens designed by Piet
In 1982, New York gallerist Annina Nosei offered Jean-Michel Basquiat something rare: a studio in the basement of her SoHo gallery, a regular advance, and immediate exposure to the market. Two years later, Basquiat left — accusing Nosei of selling his work without his knowledge, without consultation
In 1986, Paul Durand-Ruel organized in New York an exhibition of 300 Impressionist works — Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley — in an American market then entirely unacquainted with the movement. The event did not merely rescue the finances of a handful of French painters; it inaugurated a model of rel
In March 2020, David Zwirner launched his Online Viewing Rooms from a deserted meeting room in his Manhattan space. Within forty-eight hours, the platform recorded more unique visitors than all his physical spaces combined had welcomed in a month. This is not a crisis anecdote — it is the exposure o
In 1990, Emmanuel Perrotin opened his first gallery in a 60-square-metre apartment on the rue de Turenne in Paris, with a family loan of 50,000 francs. He was 21. One of his earliest bets was a man named Maurizio Cattelan — an Italian nobody had heard of, who offered him provocative, offbeat work th
In March 2020, Gagosian launched its first viewing room in forty-eight hours flat. Lockdown had just closed galleries around the world, and Larry Gagosian — a man not particularly renowned for his sentimentality — did what any good dealer does in times of crisis: he pivoted. An abstract painting by
In October 2021, a sculpture by Damien Hirst — a tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde, a reduced version of his emblematic work The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living — was seized by Chinese customs in Shanghai for violation of health regulations. The piece was held for s
In 2017, a work attributed to Leonardo da Vinci sold at Christie's for 450 million dollars — the highest price ever achieved at auction. The final buyer, revealed after months of journalistic investigation, was Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, concealed behind a shell company based in Abu Dha
In 2025, a study conducted by ADAGP and the Union française des experts en œuvres d'art estimated at more than 50 million euros the amount of unclaimed resale royalties accumulated in the accounts of French collecting societies — royalties owed to artists who could not be located, to rights holders