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Art Market Blog - The Wall Wizard No. 1
2007-12-14 22:55:00 Art Market Blog - The Wall Wizard No. 1 I am starting a new weekly feature today called ‘The Wall Wizard’ which is my attempt at saving those poor defenceless walls that have to put up with being “decorated” with tacky 80?s exhibition prints in cheap dusty frames (YUK!!). Imagine how fantastic it would be to ... More About: The wall
Art Market Blog - Nick?s Top Ten Posts From 2007
2007-12-13 01:38:00 Art Market Blog - Nick ’s Top Ten Posts From 2007 Why I Welcome an Art Market Correction Why the Art Market Shouldn?t Crumble, And Why You?ll Keep Hearing it Will For the Artists: HOW TO GET NOTICED NOW!! The Pursuit of an Artificial Perfection in Art From Garbage Bin to Gallery - But is it Art? Six Symptoms of Art Addiction The ...
How to Achieve Immortality by Buying Art
2007-12-11 00:52:00 How to Achieve Immortality by Buying Art Have you ever gone to a gallery and seen a plaque next to an artwork stating that it had been donated by so and so, or even better, gone to a gallery where a whole wing has been dedicated to a particular person or family. The reason that ... More About: Mort
The Pursuit of an Artificial Perfection in Art
2007-12-08 23:29:00 The Pursuit of an Artificial Perfection in Art If I was to ask you what is it that makes an artwork so special, so intriguing and unique? I would expect that pretty much everyone would say the time, energy, spirit, expression and effort that the artist has put into the work. The reason that artworks are ...
The Demise of the Art Critic
2007-12-06 23:26:00 The Demise of the Art Critic Prior to the in the late 19th century, before the emergence of modernism, when skill, technical prowess and accuracy were the factors used to determine how good a painting was, the role of the art critic was quite clearly defined because of the clearly defined factors and principles that were ...
Top Christmas Gifts for Art Lovers
2007-12-04 12:54:00 Top Christmas Gifts for Art Lovers First on the list is the Art Market Blog t-shirt which was designed by me. Any art lover will be sure to appreciate the ironic message that I came up with for the shirt. Get your very own Art Market Blog shirt for US$2 plus shipping for a limited time!!!!!! Get it HERE The Power ...
Wearable Art - Wearing Your Art on Your Sleeve
2007-12-03 01:08:00 Wearable Art - Wearing Your Art on Your Sleeve I was recently introduced to the world of wearable art which, as the name suggests, is a form of art where garments, textiles, jewelery and other fashion accessories are created as original, individually designed forms of artistic expression. The conventional criteria for creating clothing such as comfort, ...
Art Market Blog - Profiting from the Rush for Russian Art
2007-11-30 15:05:00 Art Market Blog - Profiting from the Rush for Russian Art To say that the political and economic history of Russia is tarnished would be putting it nicely but their rich cultural history seems to have been one of their saving graces. Unfortunately due to the economic difficulties that Russians have experienced in the past many ...
A Guide to Investing in Limited Edition Prints
2007-11-28 13:01:00 A Guide to Investing in Limited Edition Prints The recent interest in art as an investment has exposed a lack of knowledge of, and appreciation for original limited edition prints, which have proven to be a very good investment providing that you the do the appropriate research and follow certain criteria. Most artist’s produce limited edition prints ...
Collecting and Investing in Undervalued Japanese Artists
2007-11-26 13:34:00 Collecting and Investing in Undervalued Japanese Artists Many of you may not remember the art market correction of the early nineties but the Japanese sure do. The art market boom of the late 80?s was partly driven by wealthy Japanese who had a voracious appetite for Impressionist works because of the prestige associated with owning a ...
Recording and Protecting the Details of an Artwork
2007-11-24 14:00:00 Recording and Protecting the Details of an Artwork If you think about it, the physicality of an artwork is worth considerably less without all the associations that usually accompany an artwork such as: -the provenance (association with owners, places where the artwork has been exhibited and sold etc.) -the association with the artist that created the work -the association ... More About: Recording , Cord
Rewinding the Art Market
2007-11-22 13:29:00 Rewinding the Artificial Advancement of the Art Market The price people are willing to pay for an artwork should be based on factors such as provenance, size, subject, artist, period etc. which have not been artificially altered by people for the purposes of monetary gain otherwise the perceived value of the artwork is in fact false. ... More About: Winding
Ten Books Every Art Investor Should Read
2007-11-20 13:55:00 Ten Books Every Art Investor Should Read In order to successfully navigate the art market one needs to not only have a good knowledge of art but also an understanding of the dealers, artists, collectors, investors and curators that drive the art market. The art market is a complex creature that requires a unique approach that ...
Why I Welcome an Art Market Correction
2007-11-18 13:28:00 Why I Welcome an Art Market Correction There has been so much speculation recently about the health of the art market that it’s beginning to get ridiculous, with any sign of a possible cooling of the art market, not matter how insignificant, being over analysed and blown massively out of proportion. To show just how ridiculous ... More About: Rect
Art Market Report - Deceptive Deals and Underhanded Agreements
2007-11-16 15:51:00 Art Market Report - Deceptive Deals and Underhanded Agreements I receive dozens of emails every day reporting new exhibitions, auction results, gallery openings etc. most of which I just briefly skim over but the other day I received an email that from a highly reputable source that completely blew me away. As a journalist I have the ...
Art Market Report - Deceptive Deals and Underhanded Agreements
2007-11-16 15:51:00 Art Market Report - Deceptive Deals and Underhanded Agreements I receive dozens of emails every day reporting new exhibitions, auction results, gallery openings etc. most of which I just briefly skim over but the other day I received an email that from a highly reputable source that completely blew me away. As a journalist I have the ...
From Garbage Bin to Gallery - But is it Art?
2007-11-14 13:46:00 From Garbage Bin to Gallery - But is it Art? Have you ever pretended to understand and appreciate an artwork in a gallery just so that you didn’t appear ignorant, I know I have. If you go into any contemporary art gallery you will most likely see people standing in front of artworks with expressions on their ...
An Introduction to the Korean Art Market
2007-11-12 20:46:00 An Introduction to the Korean Art Market I recently wrote a post on the increasing interest in Korean art (see here) which proved to be rather popular due to a lack of information available on Korean art so I thought that I would continue on from that post with an analysis of the Korean art market. ...
Could Fame Destroy an Artist?s Career?
2007-11-10 15:06:00 Could Fame Destroy an Artist ’s Career ? The Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4 UK recently held a competition called 4 New Sensations which is basically an art prize for UK art students who are registered on STUART (Saatchi Gallery Online art student profiles) and are graduating from a UK art school or a fine art/photography department of ...
Why Art Investors Should Avoid Watercolour Paintings
2007-11-08 13:00:00 Why Art Investors Should Avoid Watercolour Paintings I was going through an art auction catalogue the other day when is spotted a beautiful painting by one of my favourite artists, John Glover (English born Australian landscape artist 1767-1849) which to my surprise was listed with an estimate of only AU$10,000-AU$15,000 which is drastically lower than the ...
How to Identify a Fake or Forged Limited Edition Print
2007-11-06 13:32:00 How to Identify a Fake or Forged Limited Edition Print I was contacted by someone the other day who wanted to know whether a Miro print that he had purchased was a genuine signed limited edition print or not, it wasn?t. The details I received are below followed by the steps I took to determine that ...
How to Identify a Fake or Forged Signed Limited Edition Print
2007-11-06 13:32:00 How to Identify a Fake Hand Signed Limited Edition Print I was contacted by someone the other day who wanted to know whether a Miro print that he had purchased was a genuine signed limited edition print or not, it wasn?t. The details I received are below followed by the steps I took to determine that ...
Nick?s Top Ten Artists from the Saatchi Online Gallery
2007-11-04 12:46:00 Nick’s Top Ten Artists from the Saatchi Online Gallery I was recently asked to pick my top ten artists from the Saatchi Online Gallery to be featured in the Saatchi Gallery magazine which I really enjoyed doing. After spending many (many) hours trawling through the 60,000 odd artists that display their work on the Saatchi Online ... More About: Nick
Art Market Movements - The Korean Art Revolution
2007-11-02 13:20:00 Art Market Movements - The Korean Art Revolution In the past Korea has typically been an isolated community that has been overshadowed by China and Japan but in the last few years Korea has come out of the shadows and begun to introduce their art to the world art market and the response has been nothing ... More About: Korean art
When Pornography is Pornography and Not Fine Art
2007-10-31 12:44:00 When Pornography is Pornography and Not Fine Art Most of you will be aware of the controversy surrounding the Nan Goldin photograph ?Klara and Edda Belly-Dancing? which is owned by Elton John and was recently removed from an exhibition by police after complaints were made regarding the sexual nature of the photograph which features two young ...
Adopting an Artwork - How to Get an Artwork For Free
2007-10-25 15:20:00 Adopting an Artwork - How to Get an Artwork For Free How awesome would it be to have the opportunity to be able to have an amazing artwork in your home for free!!!!, well now you can thanks to the Fine Art Adoption Network. Although my main focus is the investment side of art I believe ...
The Anatomy of an Amazing Artwork - ?The Hanging Man? by Sam Jinks
2007-10-23 14:38:00 The Anatom y of an Amazing Artwork - ‘The Hanging Man’ by Sam Jinks The way we judge whether or not we like an artwork is based purely on what we see whereas the way we judge whether or not we like a person is based on a far more complex and varied process, which requires a ...
Top Ten Magazines for Art Investors
2007-10-17 14:21:00 Top Ten Magazines for Art Investors In order to be a successful art investor one needs to keep up to date with what is happening in the art world so I have created a list of the top ten magazines that all art investors should be reading. All the magazines that I have chosen are highly ...
The Secret to Increasing the Value of Your Art Collection
2007-10-15 15:36:00 The Secret to Increasing the Value of Your Art Coll ection If a friend wanted you to go and see a new band that you had never heard of, you would probably be a bit hesitant to buy a ticket without knowing whether they were any good. If your friend then said that the band had supported ... More About: The Secret
Art Market Investigation - Fakes, Forgeries and Deception
More articles from this author:2007-09-21 15:54:00 Art Market Investigation - Fakes , Forge ries and Deception The art world has been plagued by fakes and forgeries for over two thousand years which began largely as a result of buyers being more interested in the aesthetics of the work than who painted it. It was during the Renaissance that artworks became a commodity, resulting in ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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