Installation view of Korakrit Arunanondchai, 2557 (Painting with history in a room filled with men with funny names 2), 2014, at Carlos Ishikawa. The Best of London in 2014 Let us put aside the oodles of money, the stupefying levels of celebrity worship and the trend...
“You Definitely Need To See This Work In Person”: At Art Basel in Miami Beach
© Art Basel For weeks I’d been telling myself, and anyone who would listen, that I was going to skip the 2014 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. It had been a busy fall. October’s Frieze London fair is at least on my home turf, but then there were whirlwind trips to...
‘You Definitely Need to See This Work in Person’: Kenny Schachter at Art Basel in Miami Beach
Miami Beach.For weeks I’d been telling myself, and anyone who would listen, that I was going to skip the 2014 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. It had been a busy fall. October’s Frieze London fair is at least on my home turf, but then there were whirlwind trips to...
Meet London’s Subway Gallerist
Subway Gallery (Foto: Courtesy of Kenny Schachter) I paid a visit to the Subway Gallery situated in a 1960s-era kiosk under London’s Marylebone Flyover, in a subway station run by a vintage Westernwear-wearing cowboy, artist, and gallerist personifying British...
Meet London’s Subway Gallerist
Exterior of the Subway Gallery, London. Courtesy of Kenny Schachter. Photo: Courtesy of Kenny Schachter I paid a visit to gallery situated in a 1960s-era kiosk under London’s Marylebone Flyover, in a subway station run by a vintage Westernwear-wearing cowboy, artist,...
How Awkward Is It to Sit Next to Larry Gagosian at David Tang’s Birthday Party?
The entrance to the Dorchester Hotel in London (photo: dpa) I was a last-minute stand-in for an ill guest at David Tang’s 60th-birthday party on Tuesday at the Dorchester Hotel, where he is also the proprietor of the restaurant China Tang. It was a celebrity...
How Awkward Is It to Sit Next to Larry Gagosian at David Tang’s Birthday Party?
David Tang. Photo: KGC-42/? Corbis. All Rights Reserved. I was a last-minute stand-in for an ill guest at David Tang’s 60th-birthday party on Tuesday at the Dorchester Hotel, where he is also the proprietor of the restaurant China Tang. It was a celebrity smorgasbord...
Of Spec-u-lectors and Drug-Dealing Art Advisers: At the New York Auctions
An elevator painted like the 1963 portrait 'Liz #3 (Early Colored Liz)' by US artist Andy Warhol during a preview of a contemporary art auction at Sotheby's in New York (photo: dpa) In The Graduate, the hapless protagonist is given career advice in a single word:...
Of Spec-u-lectors and Drug-Dealing Art Advisers: Kenny Schachter at the New York Auctions
Jeff Koons’s Balloon Monkey (Orange) (2006–13) outside Christie’s last week. In The Graduate, the hapless protagonist is given career advice in a single word: Plastics. Today, that word would be art. Just as in the ’60s there appeared to be a great future in plastics,...
French Connections: Kenny Schachter at FIAC
FIAC. LILI ROSBOCH FOR ARTNEWSOn the heels of the Frieze art fair in London, I was off to FIAC in Paris, a breather before November’s monster modern and contemporary art auctions in New York. FIAC, which has been spiffed up over the past decade and returned to its...
French Connections: At FIAC in Paris
(c) Marc Domage On the heels of the Frieze art fair in London, I was off to FIAC in Paris, a breather before November’s monster modern and contemporary art auctions in New York. FIAC, which has been spiffed up over the past decade and returned to its exquisite digs in...
Frieze London: Oktoberfest in a Cutthroat Art World
Photo: Courtesy Frieze London It must have been an omen of sorts. When I arrived at the extravagant new London headquarters of Phillips auction house last week to preview the house’s inaugural sale there, I was greeted by the slapstick sight of a smartly dressed...
Oktoberfest in a Cutthroat Art World: Kenny Schachter at Frieze London
An untitled work by Sigmar Polke from 1998, which sold for £1.06 million ($1.69 million) on a £600,000–£800,000 ($955,000–$1.27 million) estimate at Christie’s London. It must have been an omen of sorts. When I arrived at the extravagant new London headquarters of...
Collectors v. Dealers: Mutual Antagonism, Growing Mistrust
Collector, curator and art world gadfly, Kenny Schachter just published on his Facebook page a telling email exchange between a young collector and a dealer. Schachter is put off by the dealer’s arrogance. The title of the post could have been: “Dealer to Collector:...
Flaming Wades on Wheels: Kenny Schachter at the Le Mans Classic
The Le Mans Classic car race, on July 5, 2014 in Le Mans, France. (Courtesy of Jean-Francois Monier/AFP/Getty Images) As a coda to the art season, I thought I’d take a palette-cleansing trip to the biennial Le Mans Classic to check out the races and pick up an...
The Naked Truth About Basel: A Diary
‘Trademarks’ (1970) by Acconci. (Courtesy the artist and Greider Contemporary) 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, and he is a contributor...
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Art World: A Mea Culpa
‘Untitled’ (2013) by Israel Lund, which sold for $125,000 on a $30,000–$40,000 estimate at Christie’s last month. (Courtesy Christie’s) Kenny Schachter is a London-based art dealer, curator and writer. His writing has appeared in books on architect Zaha Hadid and...
Play-by-Play, Day-by-Day: A Recap of Frieze and the Auctions
Xin Li. (Patrick McMullan Company) 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, and he is a contributor to the British edition of GQ. The...
Won’t See You Tuesday…
Unimaginable in today’s art market: buyerless artworks by stars Alex Israel, Wade Guyton and Richard Prince, laid to rest. (Rendering by Kenny Schachter). Kenny Schachter is a London-based art dealer, curator and writer. His writing has appeared in books on architect...
Art & Money: The Great Divide
A delicious Lucien Smith pie painting. Photo: Salon 94. 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, and he is a contributor to the British edition...
Day Tripper: Kenny Schachter at the London Day Sales
An untitled Kippenberger from 1996 that sold for about $703,000 at Christie’s. (Courtesy Christie’s) 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, and...