Topic Archives: Business of art

Rock Drilon, artist, owner of Mag:net Gallery in Quezon City and an avid biker, had the idea of bringing together two of his loves in 2011 in a series of city gallery tours called ARTBike.

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While the Eurozone crisis and rumors of a property bubble burst may have slowed the art market in the fall of 2011, Chinese art auctions still hit record sales for the year past.

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The past decade has seen galleries expand, both in their reach and roles. Just how are they responding to the challenges of a globalised world? We explore in the second post in our 2012 and beyond art trend series.

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Preview lots for the Ayyam Auctions The Young Collectors Auction until 16 January 2012, then head to Ayyam Art Center in Dubai the next day for the auction proper.

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The Miami Herald questioned six art professionals on their views on global art trends. We summarise the main points from the article and supplement them with thoughts of our own.

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Guest writer Rajesh Punj interviews Vidya Shivadas, Researcher at the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art and an important figure in the Indian art scene.

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ArtsHub recently named Australia’s top six arts philanthropists, individuals who made a difference by supporting the Australian arts scene.

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The India Art Fair, formally the India Art Summit, is launching Collectors’ Circle, an ongoing membership programme which aims to connect and educate emerging collectors.

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Art Radar lists the twenty artists chosen for solo exhibitions at TWS-Hongo studio by TWS-Emerging in 2011 and takes a closer look at five of them.

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ArtTactic’s November 2011 report indicates that the outlook on the Chinese art market remains positive, despite weak sales in Sotheby’s and Christie’s 2011 autumn auctions.

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There is a AUD15,000 Banksy lurking in a corridor of one of three of Melbourne’s Art Series Hotels and the company is offering its guests the opportunity to swipe it.

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Christie’s Hong Kong November 26 Private Collection Sale provides a dramatic example of single-owner sales’ susceptibility to the faltering Asian art market.

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A recent article published in The Wall Street Journal gives us a rare peek into the minds and habits of seven top collectors and the strategies that they are employing.

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The response to Christie’s Hong Kong day sale of Asian Contemporary Art, held on 27 November 2011, was restrained. 28 percent of works in the 273-lot sale failed to sell.

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Business Today recently published an article providing valuable advice from knowledgeable professionals about purchasing or investing in Indian art.

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An article in The Art Newspaper sheds light on the motivations of Ukrainian super-collector Victor Pinchuk. Art Radar sums up highlights from the original piece.

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We particularly like the ideas that online gallery Light Space & Time offer on their website, useful as they are for artists, collectors, gallerists and exhibition-goers alike.

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Art ephemera can be valuable as research material and as collectibles in their own right. We link to a short article that offers some tips on how to preserve these essential objects.

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The Financial Times investigates the profession of art advisory, a field which is experiencing rapid growth in today’s competitive art market.

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A new gadget by Square allows users to read credit cards off their Apple or Android cell-phones, allowing small business owners to save money. But will it work for art fairs?

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Art Radar reports from the auction room of Sotheby’s evening sale of Contemporary Asian Art on October 3, 2011. The 176-lot sale featured two ‘premium’ works, and revealed lagging enthusiasm in the contemporary Asian art market

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Mike Matas demonstrates the power of Apple’s Ipad applications using Al Gore’s The Choice app, while galleries begin to use the new digital format for art catalogues.

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A rise in private donations has provided the Australian arts scene with a reprieve from an unprecedented fall in corporate sponsorship, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.

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In this continuation of our ongoing series of list posts, we look at how the photography market is growing in Asia by linking to the best posts on this topic from our archives.

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Top auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s are putting together special sales in an effort to grab the attention of collectors from emerging markets, the Financial Times reports.

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