Art critic Alastair Sooke tracks down the ten most expensive paintings to sell at auction, and investigates the stories behind the astronomic prices art can reach. Gaining access to the glittering world of the super-rich, Sooke discovers why the planet’s richest people want to spend… Read More
Turkey’s contemporary art scene is buzzing. Collectors pay millions for the hottest works at exclusive auctions, high-end galleries are springing up by the dozen, and more and more Turkish artists are holding exhibitions abroad. The clients are the usual family magnates and super-rich – Istanbul… Read More
The art world has been discovered by criminals as an effective way for money laundering and other clandestine activities on an international level. Unfortunately, in most countries investigators, prosecutors, judges, and regulatory agencies are not equipped to accurately detect, investigate and prosecute this type of… Read More
Art Dealers and even the country’s culture minister oppose a 12% tax rise on the purchase of original works of art from 7% to 19% as proposed by the European Commission. The German federal association of galleries and dealers (Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien und Kunsthändler—BDGV) has,… Read More
A Space for Art is “a new start-up” based in London and Berlin trying to “build the world’s largest exhibition space.” Yeah, right! To achieve this ambitious goal the company wants “to grow the world’s largest community of exhibition spaces.” The official info on their… Read More
Hiscox and ArtTactic put together a report on online art trading with a list of surveys on the perception and behaviour of online buyers. The report revealed “the growing trend for buying art online – with 71% of art collectors surveyed having bought artwork without… Read More
Art critic Jerry Saltz wrote an interesting text about the decline of contemporary art galleries for The New York Magazine where he states that the problems aren’t just economic, but artistic: “Christie’s, in partnership with a company called Y&S, now provides “a venue for emerging… Read More
Interview Magazine’s Peter M. Bryant sat down with art titan Larry Gagosian for an interview highly recommended: “If there is an art to dealing in art—and any experienced gallerist, collector, or museum director will tell you that there most certainly is—then one of its greatest… Read More
“If ‘authentication’ (so closely linked to attribution) is arrived at by consensus relying on scientific data, historical documentation and connoisseurship, ‘authenticity’ is more nebulous, covering as it does concepts of genuineness, perceived historical consistency and notions of adequate communication of an artist’s ideas or a… Read More
Art critic and film-maker Ben Lewis spent two years following the contemporary art market, from its heady peak in May 2008 until the crash and burn in October. Now, in a new and updated version of the film first broadcast in May 2009, he returns… Read More
