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 [...]
Redline Bid High for Artnet Shares in Takeover Bid – artmarketblog.com The artnet takeover saga continues with Luxembourg-based asset management company Redline Capital Management S. A. announcing that they will offer shareholders of the online transaction platform for the art market EUR 6.40 cash per share. Representing an attractive premium of more than 31 pct [...]
Merry Christmas from Nic Forrest @ artmarketblog.com A big thank you to everyone who has supported the Art Market Blog over the last year and helped the site to grow and prosper. Wishing everyone a merry Christmas and a fantastic new year !!! Kindest Regards, Nic Forrest (CEO and author or artmarketblog.com) ‘A Christmas Dole’ [...]
Sotheby’s Clyfford Still Record Fails to Impress – artmarketblog.com Sotheby’s seems to have re-ignited confidence in the art market with the results of their Contemporary Art Evening Sale. But I for one won’t be celebrating just yet because all I see is a market that reacted to an extremely rare opportunity to acquire works by [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Masterful Photographer Juan Baraja at PurePhoto – artmarketblog.com If I told you that I was going to make a connection between fine art photography and those famous robots The Transformers, you might think I had gone mad. So, today I am going to make a connection between fine art photography and those famous robots 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
Having focused my last few posts on the issues surrounding the questionable practices of some art auction houses, I thought it important to let people know how they can avoid becoming a victim of dirty art auction tricks and tactics. The only real way to avoid becoming a victim of the art auction houses is to ask questions and to know which questions to ask. Below is a list of questions, and the reasoning behind each question, that will ensure that you know exactly where you stand.
