WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Connoisseurship and the Salvator Mundi In 1987, Christie’s, London, sold a painting attributed to Egon Schiele, Youth Kneeling Before God the Father, for £557,...Read More
Our nation is divided, as are the United Kingdom and Western Europe. The election of Donald Trump, Brexit and the rise of right-wing populism across the European continent suggest that globalization h...Read More
This year our annual "State of the Market Report" addresses the apparent upsurge in art-related scandals and litigation. "Fixing the Art World" looks into the causes of—and possible solutions to—t...Read More
Gallery Co-Director Jane Kallir will give a talk, "True or False? Authenticating Works by Egon Schiele" at the Wien Museum on Tuesday, April 12....Read More
Sotheby’s auction of art from the estate of A. Alfred Taubman, to which the firm guaranteed $515 million, was characterized by some as a test of the art market. However, the sales on November 4 and ...Read More
Because auction prices are published, people often mistakenly equate them with stock prices. In truth, auctions represent only a fraction of the total art market, and the process is far from transpare...Read More
Huge art prices have many people concerned that we are experiencing another art market bubble. In truth, the market is more complicated than the flashy headlines suggest...Read More
The Galerie St. Etienne’s 2015 State of the Market Report asks who, in today’s increasingly fragmented art world, decides what constitutes a great work of art. Curators? Critics? Collectors? The m...Read More
The well-publicized forgery scandal involving the now-defunct Knoedler Gallery, coupled with the astronomical rise in some art prices, has created the unfortunate impression that art has no intrinsic ...Read More