Art: Financial aspects

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE'Irreverent, provocative and funny' Dazed'This book might change the way you look at art, or change the way yo...

Who Runs the Artworld: Money, Power and Ethics examines the economics and mythologies of today’s global artworld. It unmasks the complex web of rel...

This book aims to tell the story of social history through Money. Money and Art have shared a long history. Both words are metaphors derived from L...

Michel Strauss embarked on an enduring love affair at the age of six when he saw for the first time paintings by Manet, Monet and Degas: the passio...

In the 1960s, multinational corporations faced new image problems—and turned to the art world for some unexpected solutions. The 1960s saw artists ...

Art and the Global Economy analyzes major changes in the global art world that have emerged in the last twenty years including structural shifts in...

This transatlantic study analyses a missing chapter in the history of art collecting, the first art market bubble in the United States. In the deca...

Anthony Speelman is the doyen of English art dealers specializing in Dutch Golden Age art. Vividly written and handsomely illustrated, his memoirs ...

Why do people choose the life of an artist, and what happens when they find themselves barely scraping by? Why does New York City, even in an era o...

Why do people choose the life of an artist, and what happens when they find themselves barely scraping by? Why does New York City, even in an era o...

“There was money in the air, ever so much money,” wrote Henry James in 1907, reflecting on the American appetite for art acquisitions. Indeed, coll...

Before Damien Hirst stuffed a shark, before Basquiat picked up a spray can, before Andy Warhol started The Factory, a pile of unwanted Jackson Poll...