Can Gagosian’s New Streaming Service Help the Mega-Gallery Keep Up with Big Auction Houses?

It’s probably not an accident that Gagosian Gallery announced the launch of its new digital event initiative Gagosian Premieres—an attempt to re-create the excitement, exclusivity and novelty of a gallery opening for our pandemic-challenged times—on the eve of Christie’s hybrid New York evening sale. In a very short span of time, the art market has inverted from a world that prized exclusivity and access to one that has begun to attract a broader (if not to say, mass) aud