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Dinosaurs and modern art’ market

Dinosaurs and modern art’ market

Today’s dinosaurs’ sale (yes, you can buy them at auction) for a predicted £500,000 proves that we’re criminally underpaying for our ancient wonders – and even more criminally overpaying for modern art. Certainly, if you want proof the art market is mad, consider the difference in price between dinosaurs and […]

Nordic stupidity and Chinese censorship

Nordic stupidity and Chinese censorship

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei says Danish toymaker Lego has refused his studio’s request for a bulk order of the plastic toys on political grounds. In an Instagram post on Friday 28th October evening, the artist said Lego had refused the bulk order in September, quoting the company as saying […]

The art fair-based model, the artists and the audiences

The art fair-based model, the artists and the audiences

One of the main problems of this new art fair-based market model is that, with many galleries closing, fewer emerging artists are able to have their work displayed. And it is hard for emerging artists to infiltrate established art fairs, especially as the smaller galleries that represent these artists have […]

Meyer and Segalot

Meyer and Segalot

Reading the title of this article, some people may think that it is devoted to a couple of artists such as, for example, Auguste Rodin-Camille Claudel or Gilbert and George. But no, it’s really not that. The purpose of this article is to present two powerful people of the art’s […]

Art, market and crisis

Art, market and crisis

In an article published in this blog on November 25th last year, entitled “The role of the collectors”, I quoted Michel Poitevin’s sentence : «there is no market without consumers  and no creation without the act of purchasing “. I twisted this sentence in all directions to try and catch all […]