Art Market Eye
Georgina Adam, our editor-at-large, comments on major art market trends and their impact on the trade. Her column appears on the first Thursday of every month on our website and in our Art Market Eye newsletter in which our art market editors Anna Brady, Anny Shaw and Kabir Jhala analyse the latest news and works coming up for sale.
'From "wet painting" to NFTs: the art market is moving on faster and faster'
Cycles in the industry are getting shorter with trends now coming and going within a year
'New French restitution laws should benefit the market—and maybe force change in Britain too?'
As the Washington Principles turn 25, the complexities of restitution in a global art world have mushroomed—leaving lessons to be learned for institutions, governments and art market players
Kusama and Louis Vuitton: Who is signing on the (polka) dotted line for artist's mega-brand deals?
Yayoi's signature style is currently adorning 400 objects in a collaboration with the French luxury fashion house—but it is not clear how involved she is
Death in Miami: crypto winter imperils NFTs and the 'effective altruism' movement too
The collapse of FTX has not only devastated the crypto world, but also threatened the ethics of “make money, do good”, touted by its founders
LVMH and Gagosian: why the rumour of a buy out makes sense, even if it isn’t true
A shared client base, product exclusivity and international reach—just some of the reasons why these two brands are perfect bed fellows
Charm, pedigree, contacts: how to dupe the art market
Court documents from the ongoing Inigo Philbrick fraud saga reveal that the secretive art market and the sheer attractiveness of its lifestyle will always suck the punters in
Which East Asian city will become the region's next market hub?
While Seoul is now the main contender to take Hong Kong's prime position, Tokyo and Taipei also present attractive prospects for the art trade
What’s with dictators and bad art?
Imelda Marcos is just one of a series of despots with appalling taste
Fair-mageddon: Can art fairs recover from such dramatic losses?
Fairs haemorrhaged exhibitors and visitors during the pandemic—the events will need to find a new way forward
A surfeit of riches: a good time to sell art, despite the war?
From the $200m Warhol Marilyn at Christie's to the second part of the Macklowe sale at Sotheby’s, the May auctions in New York will be bigger than ever—against the odds
NFTs of Old Masters—good or bad?
Are the digitally produced copies of museum works sold as NFTs for six-figure sums simply very expensive digital posters?
Art Basel in Paris: an earthquake in the fair landscape
Fiac's eviction from the Grand Palais came as a shock to the French gallery scene—what was behind the move?
Who will be the gatekeepers of digital art?
Museums, curators and art professionals endorse traditional art, but who will be the gatekeepers for the online world?
Is the art market corrupt to the core? Balderdash.
An attorney in the Inigo Philbrick fraud case described the trade as completely rotten, I disagree
Has Impressionism still got it? This months auctions should tell us
Will the wave of young Asians buying hot young artists also wash into the higher-priced, blue-chip artists on offer in New York, or has older art lost its charm?
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
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
How the art market turned upside down—in one month
Banksy, NFTs and Sacha Jafri et al are ripping up the rulebook
What is NFT art? The Art Newspaper explains
Why people are paying millions for digital art all of a sudden
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Can Paris snatch the art market crown from London?
The French capital seems resurgent, but other elements may intervene
Asian art market flies in the face of coronavirus
Why are Asians in hot pursuit of art, and what are they buying?
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
A flood of art? The market issues around museum deaccessioning
A flurry of museum pieces is heading to auction, but will there be enough buyers for them?
Bubbles, sheikhs and the freeport frenzy: Georgina Adam reflects on 30 years of art market reporting
Our art market editor-at-large looks back on three decades of booming sales and soaring prices, from Middle Eastern emergence to the evolution of auction houses
We need to talk about guarantees. And art loans
Dealers who finance deals by taking out loans against art may well find themselves in difficulty because of the Covid-19 pandemic
What sort of art will we want after the pandemic ends?
Performance out, domestically-sized painting in
Auctions: what will change, post-Covid-19?
In the era of social distancing, auctioneers may have to conduct sales to an empty room
Death of a wannabe 'mega' gallery—was the closure of Blain Southern an outlier or the canary in the mine?
Gallery's demise could be symptomatic of the growing polarisation of the art market
Millennials—monsters, or saviours of the art market?
What do young collectors want, what do they buy, and, as they become richer, will they add rocket fuel to the art market—or blow it up entirely?