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Contemporary Art Needs Big Gatherings and Gossip to Survive
An April survey revealed that 62% of the 11,000 artists had become unemployed and 95% had experienced income loss.
08 May 2020, 09:39 AM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Last June the art dealer Alexander Hertling filled his booth at Art Basel with 12 paintings by a young, relatively unknown artist named Xinyi Cheng. The Chinese-born, Paris-based painter depicts lightly surreal scenes: a naked figure cutting prosciutto, a vacant-looking man sticking his fingers into a glass of wine, a bearded nude caught in a circus net. All are executed in a layered, ever-so-slightly hazy...
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