Daniel Cooney Emerging Photographers Auction – artmarketblog.com Daniel Cooney Fine Art is currently conducting an online auction on igavel of 40 photographs by some of the best emerging photographers. Amy Finkelstein, Juliana Beasley, Nina Buesing, Shen Wei and Jon Feinstein are just some of the artists whose work is included in the auction. Daniel Cooney [...]
Snobbery and the Art Market – artmarketblog.com A few posts ago I wrote about art and the Veblen Effect. The Veblen Effect suggests that the demand for certain goods, such as art, decreases as the price decreases because a more expensive object is associated with greater prestige and greater wealth. Another effect called the snob [...]
Art and the Veblen Effect – artmarketblog.com No, it’s not a typo or a made up word – there is such a thing as a Veblen Effect. First of all, a Veblen good is basically a type of status symbol that people people purchase because it is expensive and is perceived as an exclusive and [...]
Interview with Founder of ArtQuid – artmarketblog.com I recently came across a site called ArtQuid (http://www.artquid.com) which is described as an “Online Art Broker”. The extremely well designed and professional website immediately caught my eye as did the range and quality of items listed on the site. With my interest piqued I decided to contact [...]
Single-Owner Art Sale Success Part 2 – artmarketblog.com Following on from my last post on the recent success of auctions of single-owner art collections , I think that it is important to look at a few examples of such sales to see exactly how successful these sales have been and to put these sales in [...]
ArtCast: Art Collecting 101 – Art Market Trends – artmarkeblog.com I was recently interviewed by Sharon Burton who is the founder and creative director of Authentic Contemporary Art (http://www.authenticartonline.com) for the Authentic Contemporary Art Blog Artcast (podcast) which was titled “Art Collecting 101 – Art Market Trends“. Based in the Metropolitan Washington, DC area, Authentic [...]
Australian Art Sacrificed for Cezanne – artmarketblog.com The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia is selling two major works by two Australian artists from it’s collection to raise the remaining funds needed to purchase a painting by Cezanne titled “Bords De La Marne”. Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, [...]
Aquarium Gallery Closing Sale – artmarketblog.com The London based Aquarium L-13 Gallery (http://www.theaquariumonline.co.uk/index.html) is a contemporary commercial art gallery run by Steve Lowe. The gallery specialises in work of more unorthodox punk-based artists including Jamie Reid, Jimmy Cauty, Billy Childish, Sexton Ming and stop21stcplanb. On the 23rd of December the Aquarium L-13 will be closing [...]
Mei Moses Art Market Index Update – artmarketblog.com A tracking report on the year-to-date value of the Mei Moses All Art Index has been issued by Beautiful Asset Advisors. According to the fall art market insight report, as of 10/31/2008, the value of the index was 270.58** which, as one would expect, is down on [...]
The Rise of Rothko – artmarketblog.com Copyright@Artprice.com London’s Tate Modern is currently holding an exhibition of Mark Rothko’s later works through to 1st February 2009. The collection plunges the viewer into his deep “colorfields” – chromatic spaces for meditation. Marcus Rothkowitz was born in Latvia in 1903 and his family moved to the United States [...]
