Source: Newsletter Archives – we are pleased to present Volume 199 of our Comments on the Art Market.  In this issue we cover: Tales from the Dark Side, Really (some old sneakers…), Stocks and the all important Art Market … dissecting … More…

This is really sad… I fear we are going to see more of this as “large galleries with multiple locations grab wider audiences, dominate art fairs and focus on trophy works.” The people most affected are the younger/emerging artists and those … More…

  Scott Reyburn reports on the recent, and upcoming, sales in London.  It appears that at least one of the big boys is beginning to understand that too much work is not a good thing … Christie’s cuts its London auctions, … More…

  A recent study has shown that children and adults look at art in very different ways. Adults use top-down processing — driven by voluntary factors that are internal to the observer – such as prior knowledge of the work. On the … More…

  News of this find traveled the globe pretty quickly and after seeing images of the work (which were not very impressive) I was surprised by the estimated value of more than $5 million … but what do I know … More…

They always say that leopards never change their spots (not even if those spots were created by Damien Hirst) … so why did they ever release this guy?  The other day we posted a story about Vince Lopreto being extradited to … More…

  Last Thursday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) sued to recover about $540 million in assets allegedly stolen from Malaysian fund 1MDB, established by PM Najib. Among the assets they are looking to get is a Picasso that Jho Low, … More…