Market Monday: Private Parts
This week, a trio of stories focused on the growing appeal and changing nature of private art sales...
Read Moreshining a light on the shadowy fine art industry
This week, a trio of stories focused on the growing appeal and changing nature of private art sales...
Read MoreThis week, stories about blasting through art-industry boundaries––and the consequences left behind…
Read MoreThis week, three reminders that industry players react not just to their roles but to their standing within those roles…
Read MoreThis week, a trio of stories questioning where the industry should and shouldn't look for answers…
Read MoreThis week, stories about the need to dramatically re-evaluate––and the discomfort it often entails...
Read MoreRegular readers of The Gray Market know the usual format for Monday posts: I cherry-pick a few choice morsels from the week's sprawling buffet of art-industry news in order to lay out what I believe is a critical theme. For this edition, though, out-of-the-ordinary events call for an out-of-the-ordinary approach.
Read MoreThis week, a trio of stories lining up technological innovation with cultural economics...
Read MoreAfter a week where no central theme emerged, offering up a random handful of morsels from around the industry...
Read MoreJust ahead of Halloween, a collection of horror stories about the current state of the gallery sector...
Read MoreEarlier this week, Christian Viveros-Fauné published the second chapter of his excellent deep-dive investigation "The Middle-Market Gallery Squeeze," which seeks to answer whether the sector's median is indeed under siege, as so many observers now attest––and if so, why. This time, he takes somewhat of a point-counterpoint approach to the prevailing narrative, offering almost equal page space to a trio of pessimists and a lone optimist. But as inclined as I normally am toward contrarian arguments, I think the data-based approach used by the latter fails the smell test––not because the numbers are false, but because they don't actually address the question that matters.
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