May 2009
4 posts
May 23rd
A recalibrated market © Tobias Meyer
At Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction, Even the Star Is Dimmed - NYTimes.com Sarah Thornton’s take at Art Forum Diary Greg.org Interesting if you care, it’s just interesting because I’ve been following the story of the rise and fall and how it all gets played…
May 14th
Will the Auction Houses Get Hammered? by Arne...
…”Some of the rock-star artists who experienced meteoric rises, helped by manipulations on the auction block, are now in freefall. The current lack of demand for their art has left their factories wanting. Although some of these artists are significant, the collapse of hyped and manipulated markets may take a generation to disassociate the art from the feeding frenzy of the 2000s for...
May 12th
Philippe Terrier-Hermann  →
May 12th