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The Art Angle Podcast: Art Basel Rules the Art Market. Is That a Good Thing for Art?

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Dec 3, 2019
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Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Artnet News that
delves into the places where the art world meets the real world,
bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join host Andrew
Goldstein for an in-depth look at what matters most in museums, the
art market, and much more with input from our own writers and
editors as well as artists, curators, and other top experts in the
field.

This week, what seems like the entire art industry, every luxury
company, and every celebrity or status-seeker available will be
traveling to south Florida for the 18th edition of Art
Basel Miami Beach, the final stop on the annual art-market
calendar—as well as a champagne-soaked playground for the rich and
famous. And while people love to complain about this particular
fair, Art Basel matters to the art business in an enormous, almost
existential way.

Since its founding in 1970, Art Basel has evolved from a bespoke
trade fair for German-speaking art collectors near its namesake
Swiss city into a commercial Colossus linking Europe, Asia, and the
Americas via three supersized fairs. Each event doesn’t only draw
buyers and sellers of art who regularly transact in the millions of
dollars, or even just the broader constellation of curators,
journalists, and art lovers. It has also become a beacon for almost
anyone hoping to ride the cultural wave that is contemporary art
and its clientele, from major corporations to micro-influencers. In
its wake, literally hundreds of other art fairs have risen up
around the world hoping to do something similar.

that works. one other option that
is more negative: But while Art Basel and its competitors have
indisputably helped launch the art industry into a new era of
global reach and broad cultural relevance, have they created an
unhealthy, even toxic, dynamic for artists and galleries in the
process? Have trade fairs warped the way we value artists and their
work? And if big fairs have become a big business, why are so many
starting to either branch out… or die off? Just in time for Art
Basel Miami Beach 2019, Artnet News executive editor Julia Halperin
joined Andrew Goldstein to weigh in on the past, present, and
future of art fairs.

Listen below and subscribe to The Art
Angle on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud, or wherever you get your podcasts. (Or
catch up on past
episodes here on Artnet News.)

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