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Georgina Adam
Georgina Adam is the former Art Market editor of The Art Newspaper, where she is now editor-at-large. She is a contributor to the Financial Times Life & Arts Section, lectures at Sotheby's and Christie’s institutes in London and regularly participates in panels about the art market
Banksy world record as shredded work sells to Asian collector for £18.6m at Sotheby's
A previous painting called Girl with Balloon was shredded live at a Sotheby's auction three years ago, the resulting work, Love is in the Bin, has now sold
Buyer's guide to...sustainable art collecting
What galleries, collectors and artists can do to help reduce the carbon footprint of buying art
Move over London—the Asian auction market is exploding
All eyes will be on the high-value Hong Kong sales this weekend
All glitz and glamour? Hollywood’s new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Plus, the rise of private museums and Renaissance portraits at the Rijksmuseum
British Museum to sell NFTs of 200 Hokusai works—including The Great Wave
The institution has partnered with French start-up LaCollection to auction the non-fungible tokens, coinciding with its exhibition of the Japanese artist's work
Book extract | What makes buyers want to create private museums for their collections?
In this adapted excerpt from her new book, The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum, Georgina Adam examines the motivations of collectors who founded their own art spaces
Is Art Basel eyeing up a new fair location?
Art Basel has lent expertise to Art Week Tokyo, but does this indicate further involvement?
Why the figures bandied about in the art market are subject to caution
Estimates of the potential size of the art market are way off the mark
New French art market report finds auction sales dropped 19.5% to $25.5bn in 2020
The Conseil des Ventes Volontaires concludes that China dominates global auctions, accounting for $8.6bn of sales and 35% of the worldwide market
Tokyo aims to take art trade crown from Hong Kong
Can reforms to Japan’s onerous tax system allow Tokyo to replace Hong Kong as the leading art trade hub in Asia, as it was during the “bubble period” of the late 1980s?
Classicist Mary Beard on the infamous Roman emperor Nero
Plus, London Gallery Weekend and Nina Katchadourian on her adopted grandmother's embroidery
Galleries: London's oldest shopping mall needs you
Burlington Arcade has 12 empty units and its owners want art businesses to help fill them
Will gallery weekends replace art fairs?
Here are the advantages to staying local in a world of Covid
Bill and Melinda Gates are divorcing—what will happen to their art?
As the multi-billionaire couple announce they are ending their marriage, we look at some of the art world's bitterest splits
How a new digital art market could mimic the traditional one—including in bad ways
The new breed of art buyers are likely to need administrators, curators and lawyers much like those in the conventional art world
Art shipping sector consolidates as Crozier buys Martinspeed
With much-reduced travel and events, the pandemic has been tough on the logistics business and will have lasting effect, Crozier chief says
US judge throws out latest non-payment case involving Anatole Shagalov
Dispute with Artemus centred on a multimillion-dollar leaseback arrangement involving Keith Haring and Frank Stella works
The real reason why the Salvator Mundi didn't make it into the Louvre's Leonardo show
A feature-length film, screening next week in France, sheds new light on the political machinations surrounding the world's most controversial painting
But is it legal? The baffling world of NFT copyright and ownership issues
With interest in non-fungible tokens growing fast, the legal questions are testing the experts
How the art market turned upside down—in one month
Banksy, NFTs and Sacha Jafri et al are ripping up the rulebook
The curious saga of a Russian cosmetics entrepreneur and his €107m Cellini painting
Bizarre story of a painting discovered in a French village, said by its owner to be a self-portrait by Cellini, is told in a new BBC radio series
What is NFT art? The Art Newspaper explains
Why people are paying millions for digital art all of a sudden
Six reasons why Gamestop couldn’t happen in the art market
From lack of supply to prohibitive price points, it seems you can't short art... at least for now
Can Paris snatch the art market crown from London?
The French capital seems resurgent, but other elements may intervene
NFTs: a new disruptor in the art market?
Interest is growing in Non-Fungible Tokens, which represent digital works and proof of ownership
Will new EU lighting rules pull the plug on neon art?
Artists producing neon works may fall foul of stricter EU lighting regulations that come into force this year
Asian art market flies in the face of coronavirus
Why are Asians in hot pursuit of art, and what are they buying?
Client confidentiality overturned by London High Court, as Dickinson forced to reveal buyer of $4.85m Signac painting
US collector Linda Hickox is seeking to recover the work which was sold via broker by the now jailed art dealer Timothy Sammons
It is time for catalogues raisonnés to join the digital age
Printed publications can quickly become obsolete, so the ease with which a digital document can be revised is a godsend—and that is what makes many uneasy
The turn of the screw: will tighter regulations impact the art market?
Often described as totally unregulated, the art trade is facing more stringent rules