Opinion
Channeling the conspiratorially unhinged salesmanship of a Cash 4 Gold pitchman, the New York Times ran a hilariously bad art market trend piece today — a story titled "As Money Props Up Art World, Prospects Are Mixed," which portends to link macroeconomic trends with demand for art market investmen
Opinion
This week, The Stranger's art critic, Jen Graves, wrote a blog post titled, "Should We List Prices With Art Reviews?" When I first saw the headline, I had a knee-jerk reaction to the effect of, "No!!"
Opinion
As if we didn't have enough trouble preserving the middle class, the middle of the art market is the latest topic of debate among members of the art world's commercial side. Why is the high end of the art market constantly booming while the lower and middle sectors suffer?
Opinion
As the New York Times convenes a debate over the possibility of an art market bubble in a letter to the editor, the news arrives that international art sales reached a grand total of $64 billion over the past year, reports Artlyst.
Art
Puzzled. That’s a good word to describe my state of being for my first Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB). One of the primary things I learned is that art fairs can be fun — when you’re standing on the right side of the velvet rope and you have all the right RSVPs and a prepared partinerary printed out.
Opinion
This doesn't happen very often. It's highly unusual for someone in an industry to critique its inner workings.
Opinion
Wall Street Journal art market reporter Kelly Crow is probably one of the only journalists whom Larry Gagosian will talk money with — or talk to at all, really. The megadealer is known for rarely agreeing to interviews, so it's always interesting to read what he has to say when he does grant them.
Art
In an article published on Wednesday in the International Herald Tribune titled “The Impoverished Connoisseurs,” longtime art and auction correspondent Souren Melikian recalls an era that lasted from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, when European art buyers “who went in for small Medieval object
Interview
Following up on the essay I wrote about the ZERO1 Fellowship sponsored by Google, I wanted to speak with someone with a wider perspective on the shifts that have taken place in the past few decades in the arts, particularly shifts that relate to the interface between art and the marketplace. Martha
Opinion
With a Mark Rothko painting selling for nearly $87 million at Sotheby's in addition to record prices for artists from Edvard Munch to Roy Lichtenstein, it seems pretty strange to see a variety of art and business writers are predicting the end of the art market boom.
Opinion
We've refrained from reflecting on the 60 Minutes segment by Morley Safer about the art world market. But since others like Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith have waded into the commentary cesspool we decided to give you a complete analysis of what was said on Sunday's program. Read carefully.
Opinion
A press release from Artprice, an art market information source, has some interesting stats — even if they sound far too sunny — about the state of art auctions around the world.