My Indian Art Adventure - artmarketblog.com Today’s post is going to be a (very welcome) diversion from the time consuming and mind bending series I am doing on the reasons for the art market crash in the...

Art Plus Wealthy Egotists Equaled Chaos - artmarketblog.com The last post I wrote dealt with the reasons for the beginning art market crash in 1991 in which I said that I would continue with this topic for a few...

The Next Star Artist ? - artmarketblog.com With entries for the Next Star Artist competition (http://www.nextstarartist.com) closing on the 23rd of May I thought that I would showcase some of the entrants who have...

The world’s tallest LEGO structure has been built at the Legoland Windsor theme park in England.  The tower was built from 500,000 LEGO pieces, and is close to 100 feet tall!  Watch the time-lapse footage...

The Art Auction Roller Coaster - artmarketblog.com Here in Australia there have been some rather interesting developments in the art market the most important of which is the closure of two long established auction...

Regulating the Art Market - artmarketblog.com The art market is generally considered to be an unregulated market which basically means that it is not controlled or governed according to rule or principle or law....

Changes to Next Star Artist Competition - artmarketblog.com As the Next Star Artist competition (http://www.nextstarartist.com) is an entirely new concept there were bound to be some areas that needed tweaking. The...

I was recently given another opportunity to choose ten artists from the 70,000 or so artists registered at the Saatchi Online Gallery to be featured in the Saatchi Gallery Magazine as well as choose one artist to be...

Exciting Online Art Auction News - artmarketblog.com Amongst the plethora of emails that I received in my inbox this week were some rather interesting press releases announcing various developments in the cut throat...

Pope Benedict XVI has surprised many with his explicit move to address the sex abuse scandals within the Catholic church in the United States. These directives to bishops come shortly after the pope said he was...

If you have a spare $175 then you just qualified to become an art investor.  The awesome people at the Humble Arts Foundation have just released a limited edition print of the photograph “Pink Dots”...

Art Market Vultures Descend - artmarketblog.comThe ability of an art dealer to profit from the sale of an artist’s work is a privilege, not a right, yet many dealers seem to conduct their business on the...

Art Market Malarkey - artmarketblog.com One of the reason that I am becoming increasing sceptical about the possibility of an art market correction is primarily because of the increasing number of emerging art...

Art Market Correction Preparation - artmarketblog.com First of all I am not saying that an art market correction will happen, in fact my doubts are increasing as to whether a market wide correction can occur, but it...

Art Market Report Video - artmarketblog.com I recently gave a virtual talk (by video) on the future of the art market at a collectors dinner held by the Like the Spice gallery in Brooklyn, New York and thought you...