Wise to Art

For those of us that cherish post-war abstract expressionism, Artnet is at present putting up an interesting online sale called Abstract paintings New York school 1940-1970, featuring 60 original works by some 50 artists, more or less associated with the school, some pre-eminent. This is the online art market at its best: highlighting a niche [...]

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Because the commercial value of a work became the primary way of evaluating its value, work became good because it was expensive rather than expensive because it was deemed to be good.
Such astonishing naïve comments are thus given in this late month of March 2009 by an exercising art fair director and former auction-house specialist, [...]

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This German high quality site has understood all about the medium’s potential. Whilst still only offering works with prices firmly within what nowadays is acceptable for bidding without actually seeing, Fine Art Auctions’ site manager keeps hammering on the absolute safety of using its platform. Among the arguments is the extraordinary five year guarantee of [...]

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