“Dark Shadows” was an epic American gothic soap opera involving a bloodsucking vampire. Though it aired weekdays from 1966–71 (I’m dating myself), it’s what the art market has come to resemble.
Kenny Schachter Comes Out to Play at Frieze London
“Dark Shadows” was an epic American gothic soap opera involving a bloodsucking vampire. Though it aired weekdays from 1966–71 (I’m dating myself), it’s what the art market has come to resemble.
Kenny Schachter’s Dealer Diary: Of Art & Cars, Part II
“Dark Shadows” was an epic American gothic soap opera involving a bloodsucking vampire. Though it aired weekdays from 1966–71 (I’m dating myself), it’s what the art market has come to resemble.
Kenny Schachter’s Dealer Diary: Of Art & Cars, Part I
“Dark Shadows” was an epic American gothic soap opera involving a bloodsucking vampire. Though it aired weekdays from 1966–71 (I’m dating myself), it’s what the art market has come to resemble.
Kenny Schachter Gets Kicked Off Facebook and Looks for Good News in Ibiza
“Dark Shadows” was an epic American gothic soap opera involving a bloodsucking vampire. Though it aired weekdays from 1966–71 (I’m dating myself), it’s what the art market has come to resemble.
Kenny Schachter on the London Auctions, Brexit, and the New Nihilists
“Dark Shadows” was an epic American gothic soap opera involving a bloodsucking vampire. Though it aired weekdays from 1966–71 (I’m dating myself), it’s what the art market has come to resemble.
Kenny Schachter Declares Basel the New Art Hajj
“Dark Shadows” was an epic American gothic soap opera involving a bloodsucking vampire. Though it aired weekdays from 1966–71 (I’m dating myself), it’s what the art market has come to resemble.
Kenny Schachter on how to survive an art fair
I enjoy many art fairs, especially the Art Basels (Basel, Miami and Hong Kong) and, considering its owners, MCH Group, announced a major expansion into the market for regional fairs [the group is to buy stakes in existing fairs], there are soon to be plenty more. In...
Art After the Apocalypse
“Dark Shadows” was an epic American gothic soap opera involving a bloodsucking vampire. Though it aired weekdays from 1966–71 (I’m dating myself), it’s what the art market has come to resemble.
Kenny Schachter Remembers Zaha Hadid
The 15th Biennial of Architecture in Venice opened last week with an impromptu retrospective of architect Zaha Hadid, hastily organized since Hadid's untimely death a few short months ago on March 31. What was meant to be an exploration of the research methodologies...
Kenny Schachter Deals in Difficult Times at New York Auction Week, Part II
Loic Gouzer and Amy Cappellazzo wrestle. Photo collage by Kenny Schachter Captain Cappellazzo, the Auctions and the Onward March of May Markets like psyches have their natural, cyclical biorhythms; no one is happy 100 percent of the time and nothing goes up forever...
Kenny Schachter Deals in Difficult Times at Frieze New York and the Auctions, Part I
Christie's Global President and auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen gestures during the bidding of Pablo Picasso's Women of Algiers (Version O), which sold for nearly $179.4 million, making it set a world record for artwork at auction during a sale at Christie's Rockefeller...
Kenny Schachter on the Old Guard, the Upstarts, and Getting Naked at Art Cologne
Stand: Ropac, Halle 11.2 Tony Matelli at Marlborough. Image: Courtesy of Kenny Schachter. If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Cologne If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium was a rollicking 1969 comedy (with Suzanne Pleshette), featuring a busload of Americans touring...
Kenny Schachter on Branded Chaos at Art Basel in Hong Kong
Welcome to Hong Kong, where the bills are stamped with HSBC—one of three commercial banks authorized by the government to issue currency (how annoying is that?)—which is hosting the latest Basel iteration. Soon there will only be Basel fairs, along with Art Central,...
Kenny Schachter Casts Dark Shadows Over Armory Week
Collage by Kenny Schachter. Image: Courtesy of Kenny Schachter Collage by Kenny Schachter. Image: Courtesy of Kenny Schachter Dark Shadows “Dark Shadows” was an epic American gothic soap opera involving a bloodsucking vampire. Though it aired weekdays from...
Kenny Schachter on Why Gstaad Is the Perfect Context for James Franco’s ‘Resort Paintings’
Collage by Kenny Schachter. Image: Courtesy of Kenny Schachter James Franco, Bird 13 (2015). Image: Courtesy of Siegfried Contemporary Hello Magazine, Art World Edition After my recent article on the art and art scene in St. Moritz, returning with a piece on...
Kenny Schachter on London’s February Auctions: The Sky Is Falling—Or Is It?
Collage by Kenny Schachter. Image: Courtesy of Kenny Schachter The Sky is Falling—Or Is it? Breaking news: stocks take a historic plunge amid a global rout and oil slumps to a 13-year low. Even more shocking is that the art market squeaked by during the latest spate...
Dawn of the Dead
Andy Warhol “Abstract Painting”, circa 1982. Courtesy Anton Kern Gallery, New York. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts The Foreground Though it feels like it’s been forever upon us, Zombie Formalism is a recent breed of mostly male, mostly generic...
Kenny Schachter on Joe Bradley’s Unlikely Rise to Art World Eminence
Joe Bradley, Untitled (2015). Image: Courtesy of Kenny Schachter Though neither of us could recall the exact circumstances under which we met (endemic to the times), I’ve known Joe Bradley since roughly 2001. I was immediately taken by the artist...
Kenny Schachter on the Debut of Vito Schnabel’s Gallery in St. Moritz
At 1,822 meters in altitude, St. Moritz, in the Swiss Engadine Valley, is among the highest peaks in the Alps and a sporting mecca, having hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 1928 and 1948, one of only three cities to do so twice (besides Innsbruck, Austria and...
