Daniel Cassady
reporter for @artnews. formerly @forbes and @nypost. shoe leather and racquet string. opines and typos, mine. next round, yours. open to mistakes.
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1 week ago |
artnews.com | Daniel Cassady |George Nelson
It’s a well-worn truth by now—or maybe a tired cliché —to say that Art Basel is as much about what happens outside the Messe Basel as within it. Beyond the VIP days, the real action can be found at night over cocktails and private dinners, where collectors, dealers, artists, and advisors close deals, swap gossip, and forge relationships that ripple across the art world for months—sometimes years—to come.
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1 week ago |
artnews.com | Daniel Cassady |George Nelson
For decades, Art Basel in Switzerland was the only fair that mattered—the undisputed apex of the art market calendar. But in 2025, that certainty has splintered. With a bloated and chaotic global fair circuit and new contenders arriving every year (oh, hello Art Basel Qatar), even loyalists have started to ask: is Basel still top dog? For the galleries that brought the right material, it would seem so.
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1 week ago |
artnews.com | Harrison Jacobs |Daniel Cassady |George Nelson |Angelica Villa
Back in 1970, when Art Basel was founded, there were just a handful of major fairs. Today, however, by some estimates, there are more than 300 art fairs. But even still, Art Basel remains the main fair for many of the dealers showing in Switzerland this week. David Fleiss, the cofounder of Paris’s Galerie 1900-2000, participated in the 1970 and 1971 editions of the fair, before taking a long hiatus until the ’90s. He’s been going ever since. “The fair is the fair for us.
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2 weeks ago |
artnews.com | Harrison Jacobs |George Nelson |Daniel Cassady |Karen Ho
Each year, the art world calendar reaches its crescendo in June in the otherwise sleepy Swiss city of Basel with Art Basel. It’s the last chance for dealers to shift perceptions of the market before collectors shuffle off to the sun-flecked beaches or mountain towns where they summer.
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2 weeks ago |
artnews.com | Daniel Cassady
Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. The idea for Arrival Art Fair was hatched, like many good ideas, in frustration. After a recent deflating visit to a “sterile and lame” fair, Sarah Galender Meyer, Yng-Ru Chen, and Crystalle Lacouture decided that they could do better.
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