Global auction records in October While the art auction market remains healthy in Europe, it is no match for the Chinese appetite for auctions. The 10 most expensive works sold… Topics: art auctions, auction lot, auction record, China
Nazi-looted art still haunt art auctions Business terms and conditions are written for several good reasons. One of them is often to state that the local jurisdiction of one’s own country… Topics: Auction house, auction lot, Christie's, Louis-Michel van Loo, Nazi loot, old masters, Painting, Sotheby's, Steven Brooks
Whatever the art market trends are – they appear to be amplifying themselves The world is flat—period. For long it was the accepted wisdom until Galileo Galilei messed it all up by imposing the heretic view that the… Topics: art, art market, art trends, auction, Auction house
D-day for German VAT on art? A very German debate over taxes is being observed in the rest of Europe with some anxiety. The federal assembly is to decide whether to… Topics: Auction house, BDGV, Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien und Kunsthändler, European commision, galleries, German art, International art, secondary art market, Tax, VAT
art market analysis: a market with a life of its own In the era of instant gratification, of technology, of globalisation unlike we’ve ever seen before, there is a curious creature that now places itself in… Topics: art, art investment, art market, auction, Auction house, Collector, International art, Modern art, Sotheby's
art market analysis: a few supply- and demand mechanisms at play So, what does one collect or want to collect? This is a question that can go many places, but starting chronologically is an easy way… Topics: art investment, art market, auction, Auction house, Collector, International art, Modern art
art market analysis: the emotional touch and why bubbles are less bubbly than we might think Us humans are rational creatures at times, but we also possess a heart- and a taste for things, ridiculous as they are. We pay hundreds… Topics: art investment, art market, auction, Auction house, Christie's, Collector, International art, Modern art, Museum
