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Investing in Art Market Businesses - artmarketblog.com
2008-06-05 15:59:00
Investing in Art Market Businesses - artmarketblog.com Everyone knows that the art market is booming and that the businesses involved with the art market such as art dealers, auction houses, art bankers, art investment funds etc. are raking in the money. So why aren?t more people investing in these companies? The answer is ...
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The 2008 SYDNEY BIENNALE Art Fair - artmarketblog.com
2008-06-03 15:01:00
The 2008 SYDNEY BIENNALE Art Fair - artmarketblog.com With the world famous art fair Art Basel opening tomorrow, June 4 2008, there is plenty of speculation about who will be buying what and for how much but I would like to avert your attention for a moment to another major art event that you may not ...
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Turkish Artist Volkan Diyaroglu - artmarketblog.com
2008-05-28 08:31:00
Turkish Artist Volkan Diyaroglu - artmarketblog.com You may have read one of my previous posts praising the work of Turkish born artist Volkan Diyaroglu who has recently been included in the Saatchi Gallery top ten for the third time and also won the XXXV BANCAJA PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND DIGITAL ART PRIZE!!. Being of Turkish decent means ...
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War and the Art Market - artmarketblog.com
2008-05-22 04:17:00
War and the Art Market - artmarketblog.com As the first major conflict involving the United States after the Cold War, the Persian Gulf War was always going to be an unsettling event for the US. The beginning of the US involvement in the Persian Gulf conflict began in January 17 1991 when coalition forces began ...

Changes to Next Star Artist Competition - artmarketblog.com
2008-04-25 17:07:00
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 first change is the removal of the condition of entry that the winner of the competition must donate an artwork to the artmarketblog.com art collection.  ...

Picasso Gets the Chop !! - artmarketblog.com
2008-04-17 04:29:00
Picasso Gets the Chop !! - artmarketblog.com Over the years there have been some desperate attempts to make money from an artist’s fame and reputation but a particular incident that occurred way back in 1986 would have to be one of the most appalling. In 1986 an Australian mail order company called Subdivision Art purchased ...
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Art Market Malarkey - artmarketblog.com
2008-04-11 03:16:00
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 markets being “discovered” on a regular basis. The latest country to be targeted by investors is Indonesia where dealers are struggling to ...

Art Market Correction Preparation - artmarketblog.com
2008-04-09 02:29:00
Art Market Correction Preparation - artmarketblog.com First of all I am not saying that an art market correction will happen in fact I don’t think that there will be an art market correction but it is still important for investors to keep in mind that an art market correction is a possibility. Because an art ...

Buying Affordable Art Online No.8 - artmarketblog.com
2008-04-01 02:27:00
Buying Affordable Art Online No.8 - artmarketblog.com How would you like to purchase an instant contemporary photograph collection with excellent investment potential while helping a fantastic art organisation to continue to support emerging artists. If this sounds something that would interest you (and it definitely should) then read on. Photolucida (http://www.photolucida.org), if you don?t ...
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Art Market Blog - Art Collection Update 3
2008-03-23 03:39:00
Art Market Blog Art Collection Update 3 The Serpentine Gallery recently is currently holding a 20% off sale for a majority of their limited edition prints so I took the opportunity to purchase a particular work that I had been contemplating purchasing for quite a while. With 20% off I couldn’t hold out any longer ...

Art Market Blog - Analysing Art Auction Results
2008-03-07 01:36:00
Art Market Blog - Analysing Art Auction Results You will often see reports in the news of a major work of art that has failed to sell at auction and many of these reports will take the failure of the work to sell as sign of impending doom and gloom. Because auction sales are ...

Art Market Blog - The Most Controversial Artist Ever ???
2008-02-22 00:53:00
Art Market Blog - The Most Controversial Artist Ever ??? Every year in my home town of Sydney, Australia the highly prestigious Archibald Prize for Portraiture is held by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The Archibald prize is awarded to the best portrait, preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, ...

Art Market Blog ? How I Doubled My Money Overnight !!!
2008-02-14 01:03:00
Art Market Blog ? How I Doubled My Money Overnight !!! Yesterday morning (Wednesday 13th Feb) I visited the 20×200 website which I visit every Wednesday (and Tuesday) because on each of these days of two days every week a new limited edition print is released for sale. For those of you not familiar with ...

Art Market Blog - Affordable and Collectible Artworks No. 6
2008-02-06 00:50:00
Art Market Blog - Affordable and Collectible Artworks No. 6 Although Bansky is the most popular street artist in the world I would not go as far to say that he is the best street artist in the world. The reason that Bansky is so popular is that he has created a highly marketable and ...

Art Market Blog - My Two Year Old Did That, Really !!
2008-02-04 01:24:00
Art Market Blog - My Two Year Old Did That, Really !! Every year the best works of art from the New South Wales HSC (Higher School Certificate) visual arts exit exam are exhibited at various locations. According to the ArtExpress website, ArtExpress is a cutting-edge, stylish series of contemporary exhibitions of outstanding artworks created ...

Art Market Blog - Don?t Panic, The Art Market is OK !!!
2008-01-27 01:12:00
Art Market Blog - Don’t Panic , The Art Market is OK !!!  Unless you’ve been unconscious for the past few weeks you should all be aware of the major stock market fluctuations that have been dominating the finance headlines. Any sort of economic or financial rift is going to cause people to make speculations and predictions ...

Art Market Blog - The Art Market Explained
2008-01-09 01:49:00
Art Market Blog - The Art Market Explained With all the talk of an art market correction I thought it about time that I explained exactly what is going on and why. It is obvious that a correction of the art market would be the result of over-inflated (represented as greater than is true or ...

Art Market Blog - The Genius of Tim Hawkinson
2008-01-01 00:43:00
Art Market Blog - The Genius of Tim Hawkinson I went to the Sydney Museum of Contemporary art to see the new Tim  Hawkinson exhibition which was absolutely incredible. My favourite work in the show was Drip 2002 which is a highly sophisticated sculptural machine that drips water onto disposable metal trays at varying intervals creating ...

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 ...

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 ...
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Could Fame Destroy an Artist?s Career?
2007-11-10 15:06:00
Could Fame Destroy an Artis t ’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 get an Interest Free Loan to Buy Art
2007-10-29 12:03:00
How to get an Interest Free Loan to Buy Art Did you know that you can get an interest free loan to buy art? The Arts Council of England has recently announced a program called ‘Own Art’ which allows people to burrow money to buy a contemporary work of art. According to their website (http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/ownart/ind ex.html) the ...
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Risking the Lot - Subprime Stupidity and Art Auction Arrogance
2007-10-27 16:19:00
Risking the Lot - Subprime Stupidity and Art Auction Arrogance The US subprime housing crisis is one of those things that makes you wonder what the people involved were thinking. The lenders had to have known the risks involved in lending money to people to buy a house who couldn’t get finance through the more main ...
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Art Market Analysis - The Value of Themed Collections
2007-10-21 15:57:00
Art Market Anal ysis - The Value of Themed Collections A trend has begun to emerge in the art market where auction houses and art dealers are holding very specific themed sales of art such as the ‘Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds’ auction being held by Christies on the 23rd of October. An art auction ...

Buying Affordable Art Online - Ten Awesome Online Art Galleries
2007-10-11 14:27:00
Buying Affordable Art Online - Ten Awesome Online Art Galleries Get those credit cards ready because you won’t be able to resist all the fantastic artworks available at the awesome online galleries below. http://www.newbloodart.com Newbloodart offers affordable, original artwork by artists who are currently studying or have recently graduated from art courses in the UK. http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/b uild_your_own_collection/ List of limited edition works ...
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The Dangers of Wealth - A Tale of Two Art Investors
2007-10-09 15:34:00
The Dangers of Wealth - A Tale of Two Art Investors   Consider these two scenarios: A very wealth person (Wealthy1) decides that he would like to invest in art and after going through the auction catalogues from the major auction houses for the next couple of months, Wealthy1 comes across a major painting by an extremely well known ...
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