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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. Today, he works with companies including Prada Group and Sanlorenzo, serves as Superblue's board president and is a Visiting Professor at Universita Bocconi in Milan.

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    Four Takeaways From the Fall Art Fair Frenzy

    Paris is booming amid growing reliance on core collectors and wider market regionalisation. Plus, artists consider Sora 2, YouTube vs Netflix and the Pompidou’s Grand Finale.

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    Four Takeaways From the Fall Art Fair Frenzy

    Paris is booming amid growing reliance on core collectors and wider market regionalisation. Plus, artists consider Sora 2, YouTube vs Netflix and the Pompidou’s Grand Finale.


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    Rethinking the Art World | Alvaro Barrington Is a True 21st-Century Artist

    How a hip-hop mindset, an Old Masters epiphany and a radical approach to the art market launched a true artist of our times.

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    Rethinking the Art World | Alvaro Barrington Is a True 21st-Century Artist

    How a hip-hop mindset, an Old Masters epiphany and a radical approach to the art market launched a true artist of our times.


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    Rethinking the Art World | How Shifting Power Centres Are Redrawing the Art Map

    Paris’ Brexit boost, the economic might of Asia and soft power moves in the Middle East have undone the longtime dominance of New York and London.

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    Rethinking the Art World | How Shifting Power Centres Are Redrawing the Art Map

    Paris’ Brexit boost, the economic might of Asia and soft power moves in the Middle East have undone the longtime dominance of New York and London.


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    Why Can’t the Art World Make E-Commerce Work?

    Digital sales will never rule the art market’s upper tier, but there’s still scope for selling art merch, multiples and five-figure emerging artists online, argues Marc Spiegler.

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    Why Can’t the Art World Make E-Commerce Work?

    Digital sales will never rule the art market’s upper tier, but there’s still scope for selling art merch, multiples and five-figure emerging artists online, argues Marc Spiegler.


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    Why Hyping Art as an Investment Needs to Stop

    Positioning art as an ‘alternative asset class’ is a losing game, writes Marc Spiegler. Plus, ‘South Park’ trolls Trump and the art world’s new Thai fixation.

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    Why Hyping Art as an Investment Needs to Stop

    Positioning art as an ‘alternative asset class’ is a losing game, writes Marc Spiegler. Plus, ‘South Park’ trolls Trump and the art world’s new Thai fixation.


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    Why Blum’s Closure Is Shaking the Art World

    Major gallerist Tim Blum’s decision to exit the business will shake the art sector, writes Marc Spiegler.

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    Why Blum’s Closure Is Shaking the Art World

    Major gallerist Tim Blum’s decision to exit the business will shake the art sector, writes Marc Spiegler.


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    The Art Basel Vibe Shift

    While sales at this year’s fair were uneven, newer players, platforms and art forms offered cause for optimism in a stagnant sector, writes Marc Spiegler.

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    The Art Basel Vibe Shift

    While sales at this year’s fair were uneven, newer players, platforms and art forms offered cause for optimism in a stagnant sector, writes Marc Spiegler.


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    Is the Art Market AI-Proof?

    While artists are experimenting with artificial intelligence to produce work, the technology won’t disrupt the business of art, argues Marc Spiegler.

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    Is the Art Market AI-Proof?

    While artists are experimenting with artificial intelligence to produce work, the technology won’t disrupt the business of art, argues Marc Spiegler.


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    What’s Behind the Art Market Malaise?

    The fine art sector is facing existential challenges that go far beyond the current market turbulence, argues Marc Spiegler.

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    What’s Behind the Art Market Malaise?

    The fine art sector is facing existential challenges that go far beyond the current market turbulence, argues Marc Spiegler.


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    How Agents Are Reshaping the Art World

    The sector is adopting a model that’s common in other talent-driven industries as more established artists expand into everything from fashion collaborations to films. Plus, James Bond under Amazon and the ‘auto-destruction of architecture.’

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    How Agents Are Reshaping the Art World

    The sector is adopting a model that’s common in other talent-driven industries as more established artists expand into everything from fashion collaborations to films. Plus, James Bond under Amazon and the ‘auto-destruction of architecture.’


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    Why Louis Vuitton Went Back to Murakami

    Plus, Hollywood versus Silicon Valley, Frieze and the Oscars after the LA fires, Spotify enters video with The Weeknd, and more from arts columnist Marc Spiegler.

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    Why Louis Vuitton Went Back to Murakami

    Plus, Hollywood versus Silicon Valley, Frieze and the Oscars after the LA fires, Spotify enters video with The Weeknd, and more from arts columnist Marc Spiegler.