translated by Giorgina Arcuri

Art Basel has started and the buyers have arrived. However, the Americans are missing. This seems to be the biggest complaint on behalf of operators. The American public has stepped aside and given way to the Europeans. It is not a change that affects the number of transactions, but rather an actual geographic shift of the market. This does not worry all the art gallery managers, some of whom have proven to be indifferent with respect to who buys the works. Also because many of the participants are too busy calculating their business volume to worry about the nationality of the buyers.

Artissima has presented a new project, a competition aimed at launching on the International market young Italian artists aged under 35. The project emerges from fifteen years of experience in the field of contemporary art, experience of international rank that has made Artissima become a reference appointment for Italian and foreign galleries that deal in contemporary art.
The last edition, the first directed by Andrea Bellini, had set itself the ambitious objective of being really International and proposing new young talents. The appointment was met with great success by the critics and the public: 43,000 people present, fully booked for conferences and debates, and important purchases realized even for the foreign market.

Article translated by Amritee Mahabir

Article translated by Amritee Mahabir

Article translated by Amritee Mahabir

The city of Milan is searching to grow in some way. After the notice of the EXPO anticipated for 2015 in the field of art, we see that the Lombard base is looking to keep in step with the other leading capital in the artistic sector.

Article translated by Amritee Mahabir

Between the 27th may and 2nd June 2008, the fifth edition of the Moscow Fine Art Fair (MWFAF) will arrive in the celebrated Manège, the biggest cultural space in Moscow and among the most elegant neoclassical buildings in the city, just a short way from the Piazza Rossa. For the 2008 edition, the Moscow World Fine Art Fair proposes some very interesting new works.

The Armony Show, the most important show in the world dedicated to contemporary art, showcases its tenth edition. From 1994 to 1997, it was called the Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, but in 1998 it took the name of the legendary Armony Show of 1913, that first introduced European avant-garde to the U.S. As always, it will be held at Pier 94 along the Hudson river from the 27th - 30th March. The city of New York will become the artistic and economic epicentre for many collectors, galleries, critics and artists from all over the world.