Topic Archives: Business of art

Could not make it out to Hong Kong this weekend? Let Art Radar be your eyes and ears at the fair. Our reporting team will be tweeting and retweeting… and posting to Facebook!

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With a number of Asian art galleries showing for the first time at ART HK 12, Art Radar was curious to find out what their expectations for the fair were, and who they will be showing and why.

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Chinese art company Affordable Art China Ltd (AAC) will launch an art fair in Hong Kong in 2013. The event will focus on emerging artists and sell contemporary art works at “accessible prices”.

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Pearl Lam will be the next high-end commercial gallery to move into the historic Pedder Building. The new 340 square metre gallery space will open to the public on 16 May 2012.

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David Ben Kay’s Yuanfen Flow started out as a house, became a new media art gallery and is now a creative business incubator. Read on to find out more about this unique Beijing space.

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The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), which opened in 2010, is India’s first philanthropic, profit-free contemporary and modern art museum.

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ArtTactic recently released their spring 2012 auction analysis of Indian modern and contemporary art sales. The figures show a steady decline in the region.

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In a scathing review of Damien Hirst’s ongoing Tate Modern retrospective, Hari Kunzru of The Guardian questions museum independence.

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In April 2012, Sotheby’s Institute of Art is bringing a one-week “Business Management in the Art World” course to Hong Kong art professionals.

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Art Radar takes a look at shows on television that deal with contemporary art, from elimination-style reality television and documentaries to sitcoms.

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Art Fair Tokyo has announced that it will be expanding its venue in 2012, using all of the available space in the Tokyo International Forum Exhibition Hall.

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Archival Methods News has published a few top tips to help collectors, gallerists and artists hone in on that perfect solution within the range of options available.

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“Millenium Magazines”, an exhibition of experimental art and design magazines from the year 2000 onward, is currently running at MoMA from 20 February to 14 May 2012.

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The Archival Methods website is full of tips for avid image collectors, including, among other ideas, information on the kind of gloves, glass and board to use.

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In 2012, the Singapore Tyler Print Institute will participate in The Armory Show in New York City. STPI is the first Southeast Asian gallery ever to attend Armory.

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Private and corporate collectors are playing a key role in the development of the Turkish art market. Are they replacing the traditional roles of wealthy patrons?

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Michael Brand, former Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, and Roger McIlroy, former Chairperson of Christie’s Australia, are heading back to work in their homeland of Australia.

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By centralising its ASIA ONE section, ART HK is attempting to assert its “unique” position as the “only world class art fair to have a 50/50 balance of Asian and Western participation”.

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VIP Art Fair returns in 2012 for its second installment. Although many galleries failed to sell works, participants applauded the tweaks to the website interface and the fair’s publicity potential.

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Marc Jacobs of Louis Vuitton continues to push fashion and art collaboration to the cutting edge as his partnership with the contemporary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama proves.

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In this final installment of our ‘trends in contemporary art’ series, we look at how collectors are adapting to the era of information technology and increased interconnection.

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The last half of a two part series on Indonesian art in Italy. We talk to Primo Marella, owner and director of the Milan-based Primo Marella Gallery about mapping Asia for European audiences.

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A round-up of the India Art Fair which ended on 29 January 2012. Art Radar finds out what the overall reception of the fair was this time around.

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A recent Deloitte and ArtTactic study concludes that the wealthy are allocating more funds into art, driving up art prices to record levels. What is driving this trend and is it sustainable, or even true?

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In this third installation of our four part Asian art trends series, we look at trends that, while tangential to the contemporary art world, will have vital influence.

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