Patrik Schumacher, director of Hadid Architects, and Hadid. (Courtesy Kenny Schachter) Kenny Schachter is a London-based art dealer, curator and writer. His writing has appeared in books on architect Zaha Hadid, and artists Vito Acconci and Paul Thek. He is also...
Amy. (Courtesy Bravo) Seeking a professional opinion on the Bravo reality series Gallery Girls, we asked the London-based art dealer, curator and writer Kenny Schachter to weigh in. Last time around we set him up for a GChat with a real, live Gallery Girl, and thought...
Amy. (Courtesy Bravo) Seeking a professional opinion on the Bravo reality series Gallery Girls, we asked the London-based art dealer, curator and writer Kenny Schachter to weigh in. With Episode Five, we detected that he was, in his way, warming to the show a bit,...
Two of the Gallery Girls meet the Sucklord. (Courtesy Bravo)Seeking a professional opinion on the Bravo reality series Gallery Girls, we asked the London-based art dealer, curator and writer Kenny Schachter to weigh in. Episode four had him mad as hell, and all but...
Tour de force: Richard Serra’s huge ‘Promenade’ is erected in Paris’ Grand Palais as part of the annual Monumenta exhibition, 2008. Correct me if I’m wrong, but an artist has not, as of yet, actually cured cancer – though many certainly behave as though they have. I...
Terence Koh and Holzer. (Courtesy Bravo)Seeking a professional opinion on the Bravo reality series Gallery Girls, we asked the London-based art dealer, curator and writer Kenny Schachter to weigh in. His most recent recap, of episode three, had us convinced that the...
We are facing an unprecedented confluence of international macroeconomic conditions that have collided with the unintended result of pushing prices for rare and desirable collectibles far into the stratosphere. Never before have these forces raged with such ferocity...
(Courtesy Bravo)Seeking a professional opinion on the new Bravo reality series Gallery Girls, we asked the London-based art dealer, curator and writer Kenny Schachter to weigh in on the show’s first two episodes. Stay tuned for further musings on the program from Mr....
‘Gallery Girls.’ (Courtesy Bravo)Seeking a professional opinion on the Bravo reality series Gallery Girls, we asked the London-based art dealer, curator and writer Kenny Schachter to weigh in. After his recap of the first two episodes, we weren’t entirely certain he...
Laptop on desk, photo of the family, Carrera RS (911 and 964 variety), 930 Turbo…Yup, just your normal everyday office. Kenny Schachter’s working environment is a shrine to Porsches and modern art.My car obsession, bordering on a fetish, sprang from being an alienated...
Got off to an early start this year prior to the onset of the ART Basel fair(s), at 5am, and headed off to Zurich for a jump on the proceedings. I received more .pdf’s offering pre-fair fare than on any prior occasion, which can’t foreshadow a good thing for sellers...
Alia Al-Senussi It is no secret that young people are generally attracted to things that are shiny, new and edgy. Contemporary art is no exception to this rule. There is a new generation of art enthusiasts breaking through from the Western world but also from the...
Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild, 1992. $ 1,248,000. Sotheby’s New York, May 10, 2005. $14,082,500. Sotheby’s New York, Nov. 9, 2011. Why do so many art people seem to be hoping for an art crash? Why can’t they accept that in these uncertain, unstable times art has...
I made my first trip to Hong Kong to visit ART HK 12, the 5th iteration of the fair, recently majority purchased by ART Basel. Now there is Basel Miami, Basel Switzerland, and Basel Hong Kong, a concept similar to that of Disney theme parks in Los Angeles, Orlando,...
A beauty shot of Kolnmesse, site of Art Cologne 2012 In 2008 I wrote an obituary for the Cologne Art Fair, and guess what? It’s still dead. Call it fair overload. Markets are driven by a degree of psychology: when stocks go down, the good, bad and ugly all get dragged...
In 1974, art dealer Tony Shafrazi spray-painted Picasso's Guernica, which hung in the Museum of Modern Art, with the words "KILL LIES ALL" (probably a typo in the heat of the moment). It is believed that Shafrazi was protesting something or other and as a result,...
This is about death, cars, outsider art, and the power of contemporary art to suck it all in and spit it all out. I took my wife and four boys on a world-wind trip to Ghana to visit the Joseph Ashong (aka “Paa Joe”) Workshop outside Accra, a folk artist specialising...
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