Artprice to Launch Online Art Auctions – artmarketblog.com Thanks to recent changes made to the French Code de Commerce, the France based art auction price database company artprice.com are now free to offer an online brokerage service. According to the Art Media Agency: “Problems faced on the Internet relating to the differences between brokerage and [...]
Exposing the Chinese Art Market With 6 Questions Pt. 2 – artmarketblog.com see part 1 here: http://www.artmarketblog.com/2011/07/01/exposing-the-chinese-art-market-with-6-questions-pt-1-artmarketblog-com/ 3. What specific indicators would suggest a price bubble for Chinese art, and is this “bubble” a general feature across all art sectors in China, or specific to contemporary art since the 1990s, for example? The characteristics of [...]
Phaidon Releases Carl Andre Monograph – artmarketblog.com Phaidon have just released an awesome Carl Andre monograph that would make a great gift. Check out the details below. CARL ANDRE: Things in Their Elements By Alistair Rider An Enlightening Monograph on the Groundbreaking Minimalist Artist Phaidon Press is pleased to present the only monograph on the [...]
Questioning the Art Market – artmarketblog.com I was recently asked some questions about the art market for a magazine article and thought I would share my answers. Hope you enjoy !!! 1. Last year there was a trend for portrait pieces, why do you think this is? Although portraiture fell out of fashion, as it [...]
Six Super Art Investment Tips – artmarketblog.com 1. Know what to expect In recent times fine art has gained popularity as a hedge against the volatile fluctuations that have plagued the more mainstream financial markets such as the stock market. The fact that fine art is a tangible object and can be traded for money [...]
War Artist George Gittoes at Station Museum – artmarketblog.com You know that game where you ask someone who they would have dinner with if they could choose 5 people either living or dead? Depending on whether you would be interested in hearing first hand accounts of human beings at their absolute worst, Australian born artist [...]
The Ai Weiwei Interview – artmarketblog.com In 2008 I filmed Ai Weiwei’s ‘Under Construction’ exhibition at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) in Sydney, Australia as well as a brief interview with Ai, but because the gallery was so noisy and the lighting less than ideal I decided not to use the footage. Considering that [...]
Turkish Master Artist Volkan Diyaroglu at Sotheby’s – artmarketblog.com One of my favourite contemporary artists – Turkish born Volkan Diyaroglu – is one of the artists whose work is being auctioned by Sotheby’s on the 7th of April in London as part of the Contemporary Art / Turkish sale. I have written about Volkan’s work [...]
Towards a False Art Market Globalisation pt. 2 – artmarketblog.com Artprice.com has record of a total of 581 works by Hannah Hoch going to auction. Of those 581, about 97% were sold in Germany where works by Hoch appear at auction on a regular basis. What doesn’t appear in Germany are the sort of auction [...]
Towards a False Art Market Globalisation pt. 1 – artmarketblog.com One of the things that I find particularly interesting about the current progression of the art market is that although it is often said that the internet has globalised the art market, I often come across circumstances where geographical and cultural boundaries still have a [...]
