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2 weeks ago | forbesjapan.com | Grace Banks

アートフェアは、世界中で催される数々のイベントの中でも最も華やかなもののひとつだ。だが、商業目的で行われるフェアの運営は、難しいビジネスでもある。2003年から開催されてきた「フリーズ・アートフェア」も2024年秋には、運営するエンデバー・グループ・ホールディングスが売却先を探し始めたことが明らかになっていた（2025年5月初め、新たな運営会社による買収が報じられた）。また、アート・バーゼルとUSBが発表する年次レポートによると、「アート・バーゼル」のVIPデーの入場者数は2024年、2019年と比べて半数近くに減少。世界的なフェアに出展するギャラリーの年間売上高のうち、フェアでの売り上げが占める割合は2018年の46％から、2023年には29％に減っていた。だが、こうした世界のアート市場において、どちらかと言えば「独自路線」を歩んでいるといえるのが、アラブ首長国連邦（UAE）のドバイで開催される「アート・ドバイ」だ。...
How Art Dubai became the fair collectors in the spot the next best thing, before everyone else does.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Grace Banks

They’re some of the most glamorous events in the world, but the commercial art fair is in a tricky spot. In November last year, Endeavour, the owners of Frieze Art Fair, began looking for a potential buyer for the twenty two year old global event. The Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting found that between 2019 and 2024, Art Basel VIP fair attendance nearly halved.
Alvaro Barrington Wants Aspiring Artists To ‘Trust Your People’

Sep 12, 2024 | forbes.com | Grace Banks

“When I first joined Frieze Seoul, my dream was for a quarter of the exhibiting galleries to be Asian” says Frieze Seoul director Patrick Lee – “to have opened our third edition with the majority of exhibitors Asian galleries is just incredible.” Now in its third year, Frieze Seoul 2024 was more ambitious than ever, featuring over sixty percent of artists from South East Asia and galleries focussing on unconventional curatorial choices such as installation and video work.
Artist Joyce Lee captures the sublime and the mundane of the female experience

Jul 18, 2024 | forbes.com | Grace Banks

Joyce Lee has become one of Instagram’s most prolific painters. Her portraits depicting everything from the female nude to surrealist fish have garnered thousands of likes on her Instagram page. Lee now has a social-first fan base so strong that she’s eschewed gallery representation for a direct-to-consumer model in which she holds seasonal drops of her work. Lee’s latest book Archive is both a celebration of this work and the fandom that surrounds it, with images ranging from mermaids to nuns.
Naomi Campbell On Her Collaboration With BMW: ‘I Feel Deeply Honored To Have Sparked The Inspiration For Their First Ever High-Fashion Car’

Jul 17, 2024 | forbes.com | Grace Banks

“Taking part in BMW's vision in making the BMW XM Mystique Allure come to life has been truly incredible,” Naomi Campbell said at the launch of her latest collaboration with BMW, a bespoke couture fitted car upholstered with material counterintuitive to the hardware usually used by the brand — deep purple velvet and interiors minutely embroidered with sequins.
Shayne Oliver Electrifies Berlin With New Anonymous Club

Jul 6, 2024 | forbes.com | Grace Banks

“Berlin is the place that instinctively incorporates the elements of an inspiring life into the real everyday” Shayne Oliver says, founder of cult label Hood by Air and his latest venture Anonymous Studio. This week Oliver unveiled Spring/Summer ‘25 of his label as part of Berlin Fashion Week with a show that delighted longtime fans with a collection that caters to the new creative Berliner, outfitting them from the späti (corner shop) to the city’s night clubs.
Berlin’s Radical Designer Claudia Skoda On Berghain And Punk

Jul 5, 2024 | forbes.com | Grace Banks

Claudia Skoda founded her eponymous knitwear label in Berlin in 1973 because she was out of options.
Arvida Byström’s Female Nude, AI And Ten Years Of Her Girl Gaze

Apr 3, 2024 | flipboard.com | Grace Banks

Japanese people could all be called Sato by 2531, study warns. But they’d need to get married firstEveryone in Japan could one day have the same surname unless its restrictive marriage laws change, according to a new study. But the country’s dwindling marriage rate could buck that trend and a rapidly declining population might render it moot entirely. Unlike most of the world’s major economies …
Two British country homes inspired by the arts and crafts movement

Mar 18, 2024 | forbes.com | Grace Banks

Two manor houses with owners passionate about the British Arts and Crafts movement are drawing guests to discreet, creative stays. In 1892 Oscar Wilde spent a brutally cold winter in the seaside town of Babbacombe, Torquay, in Devon. He had rented a house from a friend of John Ruskin’s, Lady Mount Temple, and during the space of just one year he had one of his most prolific periods of writing.
4 Photos Of Vincent Ferrane’s Erotic Series Of The Female Nudes

Feb 29, 2024 | forbes.com | Grace Banks

Photographer Vincent Ferrané met performer Pauline Lavogez through their mutual friend in Paris. “Pauline is both a performer and a choreographer, she has fascinating personal work on bodies in her productions and her own performances encompass many dimensions, from desires to violence,” Ferrané says — “this made me think that she would enjoy embodying the multitude of characters and actions that could give rise to a space that is both very arid and strongly connoted by the bed.