Shrewd Art Buyer Calls First Dibs on Marini Sculpture – artmarketblog.com One of the most important aspects of successful art investment is knowing what is happening in the cultural sphere. It is the cultural sphere that will, at the end of the day, dictate the desirability and rarity of a work of art in the [...]
Due to overwhelming demand I have posted the entire Top 2010 Art Market Trends series in one post. Hope you enjoy !!! Top 2010 Art Market Trends Pt. 1 – artmarketblog.com ‘Venus of the Rags’ by Michelangelo Pistoletto 1. Arte Povera: The Arte Povera trend that took hold in 2010 has more to do with [...]
Top 2010 Art Market Trends Pt. 2 – artmarketblog.com There is really not just one dominant “art market” that one can refer to anymore. Once upon a time when one referred to the art market they were generally referring to the global leaders England and the USA, with perhaps the French market included depending on [...]
Top 2010 Art Market Trends Pt. 1 – artmarketblog.com 1. Arte Povera: The Arte Povera trend that took hold in 2010 has more to do with the concept of “Arte Povera” as opposed to the actual artists involved in the movement. The trend also extends to the work of other artists whose work embodied the [...]
2010 has been one of the most confusing, unpredictable and unexplainable years for me as an art market analyst. So many of the trends, events and fads that emerged during 2010 did not appear to be caused by the sort of conditions, have the same effects, or follow the same path of logic that one would expect they would given the way things have panned out in past years
Art Market Correction Survival Tactics – artmarketblog.com Let’s face it, art auctions are mainly about two things – money and excitement. Best suited to those buyers who don’t care what they buy as long as it is a potentially profitable bargain, art auctions are far more beneficial to the investor than to the collector. Auctions [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
