Adam Scheffer is president of the Art Dealers Association of America, and partner and sales director at Cheim & Read. It’s a fascinating time to run a gallery. More than ever it’s a time for us to innovate, to be extremely forward thinking and open-minded. Those...
The climate science maverick believes catastrophe is inevitable, carbon offsetting is a joke and ethical living a scam. So what would he do? In 1965 executives at Shell wanted to know what the world would look like in the year 2000. They consulted a range of...
Doug Tompkins, founder of The North Face, on battles with Steve Jobs and why we need to dismantle our techno-industrial society It has become something of a mantra within the sustainability movement that innovations in technology can save the world. But rather than liberating us, Doug...
What is the connection between Social Networks and Being Lonely? Quoting the words of Sherry Turkle from her TED talk - "Connected, But Alone" ...
A reportage of the exhibition "Witness Your World" in Milan during the World Expo 2015....
I’m happy to have success in painting, but it’s never been a goal. It happened by itself over a very long period of time and with some certain luck, and you can’t tell how much is fashion and how much is sustainable. People might say,...
Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian The red...
Coming from the financial sector, where for years he has worked as an investment banker, the Brussels-based collector Alain Servais prides himself on taking a holistic view of the systems powering the global art industry, applying market models to predict future trends—and swoop in on...
Situating Post Internet by Domenico Quaranta I Writing about post-internet art from an art history perspective looks pretty much like an impossible task at present. Either we are still trapped in the storm of comments, opinions and debates that blew up when this proposed art label turned...
From The Book of Life from Alain de Botton's School of Life At a recent Sotheby’s auction in London, Wall by the German painter Gerhard Richter eclipsed the already vast estimate given by the auction house, finally selling for a shade under 17.5 million GBP. It...
