20×200 Suspended and Haunch of Venison Abandoned – artmarketblog.com Well, what a week it has been. First of all, art dealer extraordinaire Jen Bekman is rumoured to be in the process of disconnecting herself from the online limited edition print sales website 20×200 she founded in 2007. Visiting the 20×200 reveals a message that says [...]
A More Mature American Art Market Emerges, Pt. 2 – artmarketblog.com As I wrote in my last post, over the last year or so the American art market has shown significant signs of development and maturation evinced by a greater focus on the work of artists (painters mainly) active during the early to mid 20th [...]
Is Uruguay the Art Market’s Next Big Thing? – artmarketblog.com On the 10th of January 2013, Uruguayan auction house Castells held a sale of Modern and Contemporary Art at their Montevideo saleroom which for all intense and purposes was a big success. The top price of the sale went to a marble sculpture by renowned [...]
Video: Skate’s 2012/13 Art Market Overview – artmarketblog.com Skate’s http://skatepress.com/ starts running a series of Art Industry Hangouts with art market experts, covering a range of topics and using the technology provided to us by Google with its recent Hangouts feature. Today’s conversation is a high-level overview of the trends and events that happened in [...]
Last Chance to Invest in Desirable Artists at Royal Academy Auction – artmarketblog.com Works of art by some amazing artists are currently being sold by Britain’s Royal Academy. RA Now is a major exhibition and sale of work by 121 current Royal Academicians and Honorary Royal Academicians. It offers a unique opportunity to buy work donated [...]
Bonhams Sale of Richard Diebenkorn Print Leaves Market Green With Envy – artmarketblog.com The sale of Richard Diebenkorn’s etching Green, 1986 for US$ 338,500 inc. premium against an estimate of US$ 200,000 – 300,000 by Bonhams in San Francisco on the 23rd of October was the second highest price achieved for a print by the [...]
The Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seed Melee – artmarketblog.com I was recently informed by a representative from one of the first galleries to purchase a share of Ai Weiwei’s sunflower seed installation, titled Kui Hua Za (Sunflower Seeds), that they had purchased the work in 2009 on the understanding that it was a limited edition of [...]
Q&A With Managing Partners of Liquid Rarity Exchange Part 2 – artmarketblog.com Liquid Rarity Exchange (LRE) is a business method patent development and licensing company that has been granted the exclusive rights to the establishment of a new and innovative financial exchange archetype based on the securitization of tangible assets – in other words, a [...]
Q&A With Managing Partners of Liquid Rarity Exchange Part 1 – artmarketblog.com The Liquid Rarity Exchange (LRE) is a new art investment system that facilitates the securitization of investment-grade rare and precious assets – in other words, a system allowing art to be owned in fractional shares and publicly traded for the first time. Nic Forrest, [...]
Art Futures Group Use Social Media to Promote Art Investment – artmarketblog.com Art Futures Group, the world’s leading brokerage firm specialising in contemporary Asian art, is taking advantage of the social media phenomenon, and the progression of the online market for fine art, by offering their clients the opportunity to view their entire artwork portfolio [...]
