Australian Art Sacrificed for Cezanne

"Bords De La Marne" by Cezanne The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia is selling two major works by two Australian artists from it’s collection to raise the remaining funds needed to purchase a painting by Cezanne titled “Bords De La Marne”. Director...

Mei Moses Art Market Index Update

A tracking report on the year-to-date value of the Mei Moses All Art Index has been issued by Beautiful Asset Advisors. According to the fall art market insight report, as of 10/31/2008, the value of the index was 270.58** which, as one would expect, is down on the 2007 year...

Milan Contemporary Art Sale Success

In a market where a majority of the major art auctions being held since the beginning of the financial crisis are experiencing far from positive results it is important to be aware that there are still many promising signs of art market resilience. One such sign is the Milan...

Next Star Artist Update

Next Star Artist Update It’s been a while since I posted an update on Herb Williams who won the inaugural Next Star Artist competition so here’s the latest goss. The most exciting news is that Herb was chosen to create the album cover for the mega popular rock band The...

Art Auction Estimates Mean Little

While looking through the real-estate section of a newspaper the other day I realised how much more useful those listings were that included information (date and price) regarding the last time the property was...

Herb Williams’ Obama Portrait Video

“Obama Portrait In Thousands of Crayons” This is a short story on Nashville artist Herb Williams, who spent over four months making a large 3-d portrait of Barack Obama out of thousands of crayons. You can...

Art Market Correction Statistics

Copyright@Artprice.com Since the beginning of September, the art market has contracted for the first time since 1990. Although it survived 9/11, the meltdown of the global financial system has been too much for...

Ignore November Art Auctions

There seems to be a significant amount of concern regarding the outcome of the November art auctions to the point where those who follow what some journalists write about the art market might believe that the...

Trophy Sellers Endanger Art Auction Results

One of the most dangerous scenarios for the art market is the existence of large numbers of extremely wealthy people who have no idea about the value of art yet have excessive amounts of money to spend on...

Art Market Review October 2008 Video

Art Market Review October 2008 VideoThis video is a review of the art market since the beginning of the financial crisis with analysis of the current state of the art market and predictions on the future of the...

The REAL State of the Art Market

Art auction results are usually used by the media as the primary indicator of the health of the art market and have received a huge amount of press since the financial crisis took hold as reporters and journalists...

Ten Ways to Invest in Art

1. Buy art and hang on wall -Yes I know, stating the bleeding obvious 2. Become an artist -Think you could be the next Damien Hirst? 3. Invest in an art investment fund -There are many different art investment...

Kate Moss Art Market Mess part 2

This post will continue on from my last post (see here) regarding the article “Art sale Moss-acre” (see here) due to the fact that I have even more issues with the content of this article and the way the related events have been reported. It is especially important in...

Australian Art Auction News

Tonight (24th September) and tomorrow night (25th September) there will be art auctions taking place here in Australia both of which are being conducted by Menzies Art Brands who are the number one market...

Limited Edition Print Market Update

Our good friends at the Humble Arts Foundation have just launched their new website which I have to say is absolutely fantastic. To kick off their new site, Humble Arts Foundation have released a new photo...

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