The Rise of Victorian Paintings Pt. 2 – artmarketblog.com

The Rise of Victorian Paintings Pt. 2 – artmarketblog.com

Network of Arts and Culture Websites Creates New Model for Online Publishing – artmarketblog.com

Network of Arts and Culture Websites Creates New Model for Online Publishing

Boo Saville at Trolley Gallery – artmarketblog.com

Boo Saville at Trolley Gallery – artmarketblog.com

20/21 British Art Fair Report – artmarketblog.com

The 20/21 British Art Fair held at the Royal College of Art building was a great event that attracted plenty of admirers (and buyers) with a wide variety of fantastic art. Sales at the fair were reported to be quite good and the atmosphere was very positive

Location Matters for Art Sales- artmarketblog.com

Location Matters for Art Sales- artmarketblog.com At a recent art auction that I attended here in Australia a couple of prints by Sybil Andrews attracted huge amounts of interest resulting in both selling for well above their estimates. This wasn’t really surprising considering the level of interest that there seems to be in the work [...]

Hard Art Market Data Tells Real Story – artmarketblog.com

Hard Art Market Data Tells Real Story – artmarketblog.com Dissecting Christie’s Feb 09 Art Auction Pt. 3 See part one here: http://artmarketblog.com/2009/02/17/dissecting-christies-feb-09-art-auction-pt-1-artmarketblogcom/ See part two here: http://artmarketblog.com/2009/03/08/dissecting-christie%e2%80%99s-feb-09-art-auction-pt-2-artmarketblogcom/ A few weeks ago I posted details of the sold lots from the Christie’s February 2009 Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale along with details relating to previous [...]

Ana Prvacki Performance Video – artmarketblog.com

Ana Prvacki Performance Video – artmarketblog.com In September last year during the Sydney Biennale, at the request of New Art TV, I interviewed Singapore based, Serbian born artist Ana Prvacki. As part of the Biennale, Prvacki performed a work titled “Music Derived Painkiller” which involved the collection of saliva from a flute performance. Intrigued?. If [...]

Sigmar Polke at Editions Schellmann – artmarketblog.com

Sigmar Polke at Editions Schellmann – artmarketblog.com German artist Sigmar Polke is undoubtedly one of the most important and influential artists of the post-war generation. Polke is often grouped with other important German artists such as Keifer, Penck, Richter and Immendorf all of whom were part of the Neo-Expressionist movement. The Neo-Expressionist movement developed in [...]

The Market for Neo-Impressionism – artmarketblog.com

The Market for Neo-Impressionism – artmarketblog.com Neo-Impressionism is the specific name given to the Post-Impressionist work of Seurat and Signac and their followers. The work of the Neo-Impressionists is characterised by the use of tiny dots or dabs of paint which, when viewed from a distance, appear to the viewer as being mixed. The neo-impressionist [...]

Art Market Correction Survival Tactics – artmarketblog.com

Art Market Correction Survival Tactics – artmarketblog.com Let’s face it, art auctions are mainly about two things – money and excitement. Best suited to those buyers who don’t care what they buy as long as it is a potentially profitable bargain, art auctions are far more beneficial to the investor than to the collector. Auctions [...]

Jenny Holzer and Feminist Art – artmarketblog.com

Jenny Holzer and Feminist Art – artmarketblog.com The work of Jenny Holzer, one of the most influential and most important artists of her generation,  is currently the subject of a major retrospective that has been organised by the Chigago MCA and the Fondation Beyeler.  The exhibition, titled “Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT” focuses on the last [...]

The Art Market is Not Immune – artmarketblog.com

The Art Market is Not Immune – artmarketblog.com There are lots of things that bother me about the way that art investment and the art market are portrayed. One of the things that bothers me quite a bit is the frequency of which the art market is referred to as being immune to economic or [...]