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Four Takeaways From the Fall Art Fair Frenzy

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The Opening of the Art Basel Paris 2025.
Paris Art Week, anchored by Art Basel Paris, was a buoyant affair, with dozens of galleries reporting strong sales, albeit well below boom-time levels. (Getty Images)

As usual, art market sales went pretty quiet after the Swiss edition of Art Basel: Gallerists caught their breath and collectors disappeared for the summer holidays. Then came the art world’s annual autumn marathon, covering more than a score of fairs and hundreds of other events from Seoul to New York to London to Paris to Turin. It’s been a tough year and amid continuing macroeconomic uncertainty, many industry insiders feared a season of calamitous sales.

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Marc Spiegler

Marc Spiegler is a contributing writer at The Business of Fashion. The French-American led Art Basel from 2007 to 2022, after 15 years as a journalist, during which he wrote for publications including the Art Newspaper, ARTnews, Metropolis, Wired and New York Magazine.

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