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Sizing up the On-line Art Market

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End of the year clean-up – Good-bye eBay Live

December 12th, 2008 · No Comments

With the imminent closing of eBay Live, the Internet art auction scene becomes yet a bit more transparent. Memorable for having tried to bring live auction excitement to the Internet, eBay, retracting to its core business, immediately becomes less ambivalent and much more appreciable as to the quality to expect and the risks to be […]

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Buying Art on the Internet – AADA’s vision

December 11th, 2008 · No Comments

The American Art Dealers Association publishes an online beginner’s guide to art collecting where their vision of the on-line marketplace is set out. Not surprisingly and for obvious reasons they are in general against buying art on the Internet.
It is true that this new medium threatens the classical (and often costly) intermediaries, who are […]

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Artnet reinforces its market presence – artnet.fr

December 10th, 2008 · No Comments

The major online art platform Artnet has recently launched a French language version of its already well established German-English referential conglomerate and strengthens thereby considerably an already leading position on the international art market. Even though France was retrograded to fourth position recently for world art market turnover, it still holds immense influence and no […]

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