2015 Art Market Report
Where Are The Gatekeepers?

Posted on July 31, 2015July 23, 2018 by Jane Kallir

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

2014 Art Market Report
The Investment Game

Posted on July 1, 2014July 23, 2018 by Jane Kallir

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... Read More

The Forgery “Epidemic”
Does It Matter Who Really Made That Picture?

Posted on January 27, 2014December 5, 2015 by Galerie St. Etienne

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

2013 Art Market Report
Money Changes Everything

Posted on July 1, 2013July 23, 2018 by Jane Kallir

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... Read More

2012 Art Market Report
The Authentication Crisis

Posted on July 1, 2012July 23, 2018 by Jane Kallir

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... Read More

2011 Art Market Report
The Facebook Effect

Posted on July 5, 2011July 23, 2018 by Jane Kallir

In the movie The Social Network, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg must choose between building a steady revenue stream via ad sales or going for a potentially much larger payoff by using venture capit... Read More

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