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Oct 11, 2022 · While all these individual initiatives are to be applauded, the next step is for the major fairs to team up, pool their data and draw up art fair sustainability guidelines that everyone can adhere to.
Oct 11, 2024 · The new alliance of art fairs has also committed to encouraging more sustainable forms of transport for staff and visitors. The GCC and Frieze urge people travelling from Europe to take the train ...
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The fair has also become members of GCC and adopted the non-profit’s goals of facilitating a greener art industry, achieving near zero-waste practices, and aligning with the Paris Agreement by reducing the art world’s collective emissions by 50% by 2030. While art fairs are working to improve their own operations, exhibitors are embarking ...
Sep 26, 2024 · After all, art fairs call for a major upheaval of personnel and stock, sometimes to an entirely new continent. The toll of air freight, air travel, plus all manner of single-use materials needed ...
Sep 26, 2024 · Structural change requires immediate collective action,” he said. Other art fairs who have signed up include Madrid and Lisbon fair ARCO, Copenhagen fair CHART, Liste Art Fair Basel, Ramsay Fairs (which runs the Affordable Art Fair), and New York’s The Art Show. Gallery Climate Coalition is an international coalition of more than 1,500 arts ...
Dec 11, 2023 · The value of art versus the value of sustainability. With global art sales reaching a staggering 67.8 billion USD in 2022, the cumulation of activities related to the acquisition process leaves a heavy carbon footprint. Art fairs, the art market’s largest trade events, contribute to a substantive share of the industry’s overall emissions.
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Sep 26, 2024 · A new alliance of major art fairs—including Art Basel, Frieze, and TEFAF —and the Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC) announced on Thursday a new unified commitment to combatting climate change ...
