Tag: art market report
2018 Art Market Report
The art world is very much a product of larger socioeconomic forces that determine what gets seen, sold and valued, aesthetically as well as monetarily. In art, the long twentieth century, associated ... Read More
2017 Art Market Report
A Tale of Two Art Worlds
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...
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2016 Art Market Report
Fixing the Art World
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...
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2015 Art Market Report
Where Are The Gatekeepers?
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...
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2014 Art Market Report
The Investment Game
The art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto, who died last year, was instrumental in describing and reifying the concept of the “art world”: an amalgamation of collectors, dealers, artists, cur...
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2013 Art Market Report
Money Changes Everything
In the 1979 film Being There (based on a novel by Jerzy Kosinski), a naïve, slightly dimwitted gardener is mistaken for an economic pundit. The conceit is presented as a comic send-up of the politica...
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2012 Art Market Report
The Authentication Crisis
For the past dozen years, our annual “State of the Market” reports have repeatedly called attention to the impact of rising income inequality on the art market, correlating the decline of the Amer...
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