Topic Archives: Art funds

This addition to the Art Radar ‘Lists’ series takes a look at five of our best posts on art collecting in the corporate world.

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In the latest press release from ART HK 11, sent out on 31 May 2011, organisers announce that the 2012 edition of the fair will be held in May rather than February.

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ArtInsight’s second global art market seminar for 2011 discusses what makes for a successful art fund and whether art can be an asset class.

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Philippine university art museum Ateneo Art Gallery has turned fifty. The gallery began in as a collection of paintings donated by multimillionaire heir, philanthropist and educator Fernando Zobel de Ayala, himself a painter. Today, it is busy inaugurating extended gallery space and setting up contemporary art acquisition and endowment funds. Continue reading →

HONG KONG CURATOR INTERVIEW For a place that has been repeatedly touted as a cultural desert, Hong Kong has managed to attract arts practitioners from many walks of life who are dedicated to working with the challenging realities present within … Continue reading →

INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART MARKET OUTLOOK CEO of on-line Indian auction house Saffronart explains that the collector base for Indian art is changing Dinesh Vazirani is the CEO and Co-Founder of Saffronart, the world’s largest online auction house for fine art … Continue reading →

RUSSIAN ART MUSEUMS Two new contemporary art museums are planned for Moscow reports Artinfo. National Centre for Contemporary Art Mikhail Mindlin and Leonid Bazhanov, directors of the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow, initiated the plan to establish a … Continue reading →

EMERGING CHINESE ARTIST HONG KONG AUCTION Christie’s Asian Contemporary Art sale on 1 December was surprisingly encouraging for the art market, at least the Asian contemporary art market, although perhaps not too much should be read into that just yet. … Continue reading →

ART PRICES FINANCIAL CRISIS With fear at near panic levels recently in the stock market, it would seem almost anomalous that life goes on in some segments of alternative investments. No, we’re not talking about hedge funds or commodities, both of … Continue reading →

MARKET WATCH ART FUNDS It was two years ago that Kristina McLean, a Canadian-born financial analyst in her early 20s, left Morgan Stanley in order to enter the art world. Her research has indicated that there are some fifty funds … Continue reading →

MARKET WATCH The art market will not be affected by the vicissitudes of the global economy Philip Hoffmann chief executive of The Fine Art Fund said to the Business Standard at the August 2008 Indian Art Summit. “The trading in … Continue reading →

INDIAN ART FOR FUND “Hoffman is something of a poster boy for art funds, and for the entire “art as an alternative asset class” discourse, doing annual trade of $120-130 million every year through the five funds he manages” says … Continue reading →