Art
Mapping the Most Expensive Artworks Sold by Country
A new series of maps created by howmuch.net attempts to look at art valuation based on country of origin.
Art Market
Art
The Best Way to Collect Contemporary Art: Patiently and Passionately
When art and commerce mix, a certain level of mania is inevitable: it’s what you get when passion and pragmatism collide.
Opinion
Stefan Simchowitz Isn't as Controversial as He'd Like You to Believe
Stefan Simchowitz has a talent for making himself the center of conversation. That talent was on full view over the past week, since the New York Times released its Sunday magazine profile of the art collector/dealer.
News
Making Sense of NYC's $1.5 Billion Art Auction Week
Listen up: $1.5 billion!
Opinion
Do Mexican Drug Lords Buy Art?
Art gallerists in Mexico are blaming slow business on an anti–money laundering law targeting drug lords, reports the Washington Post.
Art
Tip of the Iceberg: The Vast Underbelly of the Art Market
"It's really business as usual," announced one Fabian Bocart in today's New York Times, apropos the putative stability of the art market.
Art
A Demographic Breakdown of the World's 200 Top Art Collectors
Hyperallergic has taken it on ourselves to crunch the numbers and scan the demographics of ARTnews magazine's top 200 art collectors in the world.
Opinion
What's Good for the Art Market Is Bad for the Economy
One of the art world's neatest neoliberal parlor tricks is transforming the real world's troubles into pleasingly hermetic objects for hobbyists, and in this respect the European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF)'s ebullient annual economic report is a fine specimen.
News
Art Market Moved $66 Billion Last Year, Nearing Pre-Recession Levels
International art and antique market sales totaled €47.4 billion ($66 billion) last year, their highest sum since the pre-recession days of 2007, according to the European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF)'s annual art market report, released yesterday.
Art
Marc Jancou, Cady Noland, and the Case of the Authorless Artwork
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Ending not with a bang but a whimper, the last bit of legal wrangling in the case that pitted collector Marc Jancou against Cady Noland and Sotheby’s was quietly settled on November 11.
Opinion
Will the Art Market Ever Regulate Itself?
Regulation in the world of art commerce is a troublesome word.
Opinion
The Art Market Is the Market Is the Market
Yesterday's critique of Allison Schrager's art market takedown in Quartz was about something that is ultimately quite simple: certain fictions about the exceptional irrationality or corruption of the art market are sustained for various reasons — from marginalized artists who would sooner believe th