Contemporary art market
Trade Secretscomment
'Hong Kong art market profits despite protestors’ pain'
If not immune to geopolitical unrest, then perhaps art is a refuge for money that is struggling to find its way into other assets
Auction Reportarchive
Sale reports: Impressionist and Modern, Surrealism, and Contemporary
Peaks for best modern and contemporary artists High prices for works by Miró, Bacon, Moore and Richter are reminiscent of the boom
Jean-Michel Basquiatarchive
Basquiat: his market and his legacy
Beyeler exhibition aims to place the artist, who died at 27, high in the canon
October 2009archive
How did the financial downturn impact the market for brand-name artists like Hirst and Murakami?
Both have adopted marketing strategies more typical of luxury goods firms than artists. In 2009 we looked at their market history
Art marketarchive
Demand for prints and multiples has increased with the rise of the contemporary art market
Are today’s “limited edition prints” really original, and will they gain in value? Probably not
Art marketarchive
Roger Bevan looks at how auction houses have tried to become dealers either by buying them or by behaving like them
Traditional boundaries are being blurred