Primitive Artistic Genius Shines – artmarketblog.com How many artists do you know that only began painting seriously at aged 79 and had become an internationally exhibited, world renowned artist by age 81. My guess is not very many. One artist who did manage to achieve this extraordinary feat is the Australian Aboriginal artist Emily Kngwarreye [...]
Art Market Blog – What the Art Market Needs Well, as I mentioned at the end of last year, I had some big projects planned for 2008 one of which is the Next Star Artist (http://www.nextstarartist.com) competition which I have just launched. After months and months of planning it feels fantastic to have the competition [...]
Art Market Copyright Bullies – artmarketblog.com Being on the front line of visual arts copyright means that I have the opportunity to experience the problems associated with this issue from both sides of the fence. The task of keeping both the artist and the client (image users such as dealers, galleries, cultural institutions, media etc.) [...]
Art Market Blog – Favourite Artist Update I come across some fantastic artists in my day to day dealings some of whom are particularly exciting and have captured my attention. I like to keep a track of these artists and keep up to date with their careers which I find quite inspiring so I thought [...]
Art Market Blog – How Artists Can Invest in Themselves One of the biggest problems that artists face is not having the security of a regular wage and the benefits that go along with regular employment such as a pension. A group of investors and art collectors have taken a major step towards greater financial [...]
Art Market Blog – Will New Online Art Auctioneer Succeed ? The online fine art sales and art price data website artnet (http://www.artnet.com) has just announced that it will be introducing an online auction service due to start on the 25th of February. According to a press release by artnet “The expensive modus operandi of [...]
Art Market Blog – Art Market Confidence Index Seriously Flawed On the 28th of January Artprice launched their Art Market Confidence Index ® which is apparently able to give a real time reading of people’s confidence in the art market for both the present and the future. According to the Artprice website “Artprice aims at conducting a [...]
Art Market Blog – How I Doubled My Money Overnight !!! Yesterday morning (Wednesday 13th Feb) I visited the 20×200 website which I visit every Wednesday (and Tuesday) because on each of these days of two days every week a new limited edition print is released for sale. For those of you not familiar with [...]
Art Market Blog – Collecting Artists’ Books The old saying ‘a picture tells a thousand words’ could not be more true in the case of artists’ books, which are a relatively unknown and under appreciated collectible. As the name suggests, the general definition of an artist’s book is a work of art realised in the [...]
Art Market Blog – Affordable and Collectible Artworks No. 6 Although Bansky is the most popular street artist in the world I would not go as far to say that he is the best street artist in the world. The reason that Bansky is so popular is that he has created a highly marketable and [...]
