Art: Financial aspects

A trailblazing look at the historical emergence of a global field in contemporary art and the diverse ways artists become valued worldwidePrior to ...

The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines, and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such, schol...

Women Art Dealers brings together fascinating case studies of galleries run by women between the 1940s and 1980s. It marks a departure from other w...

In Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital, Marina Vishmidt offers a new perspective on one of the main...

Indonesian art entered the global contemporary art world of independent curators, art fairs and biennales in the 1990s. By the mid-2000s, Indonesia...

Throughout the Great Recession American artists and public art endowments have had to fight for government support to keep themselves afloat. It wa...

For centuries, the stories of the world's great jewellery collections have lain hidden within the archives of Christie's, the celebrated auctioneer...

The Wider Goldsmiths Trade in Elizabethan and Stuart London is the first book to study all aspects of the Goldsmiths trade. It challenges the assum...

Offering veteran insight and friendly, actionable advice from two self-made women who have helmed four successful creative businesses, this practic...

From the end of the Second World War through the U.S. Bicentennial, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford F...

Discover Jasper Johns as a passionate collector of drawings! From Paul Cézanne to Pablo Picasso to Willem de Kooning the collection of Jasper Jo...