Category: Art Fair
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Frieze London and Art Basel Paris: How emerging galleries pay the price of prestige
Coming back from an intense week at Frieze London, where I worked in the Focus section, I couldn’t help but compare how the two major fairs—Frieze London and Art Basel Paris—treat emerging galleries and artists. How do they each support, or fail to support, the artists and galleries trying to find their place in an…
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Frieze London 2025, Preview KAYOKOYUKI
For Frieze London 2025, Tokyo-based gallery Kayokoyuki presents a dialogue between two Japanese artists, Daichi Takagi and Yutaka Nozawa, whose works explore the shifting boundaries between space, time, figuration, and abstraction through painting, photography, and video. Daichi Takagi’s work draws deeply from nature and from the elements that shape our everyday surroundings.Early in his career,…
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Africa Basel 2025: A Vital New Platform for Contemporary African Art in Basel
Launched in mid-June alongside Art Basel, one of the world’s top contemporary art fairs, Africa Basel set out to spotlight artists from Africa and its global diaspora in the heart of the Swiss city. This initiative addresses the ongoing underrepresentation of African art in major international fairs by offering a space that balances established and…