Rise of the Cyborg Art Dealers: How the Art Market Is Preparing to Adapt to a Hybrid Online-IRL Future
Frieze Week 2020. Lisson Gallery (Cork St) Photo by Linda Nylind for Frieze. A version of this story first appeared in the spring 2021 Artnet Intelligence Report, which you can download in full for free here. “Imagine a world where you could not fly around the globe anymore. How would you conduct business?” That was the “thinking-out-of-the-box” assignment that a consultant gave Phillips executives at the auction house’s annual strategy meeting in January 2020. “We looked at each other, like, ‘What is he talking about?’” Cheyenne Westphal, the company’s chairman, rec...
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