Don’t be afraid to sell a masterpiece, look at the middle market, and more advice for cashing in on art when the stock market is falling. Nothing gold can stay, and every art-industry veteran understands that the good times don’t last forever. Beneath the big-money rumblings of last November’s New York auctions—a bellwether slate of […]
The notion that collectors sit atop the hierarchy of today’s art world is axiomatic. They build private museums and control the boards of traditional ones. Through their acquisitions, they determine the fates of artists, and often overshadow curators, historians, and critics—all those ink-stained intellectuals who used to play a larger role in determining art’s value. […]
With his trademark style, Robert Hughes explores how museums, the production of art and the way we experience it have radically changed in the last 50 years, telling the story of the rise of contemporary art and looking back over a life spent talking and writing about the art he loves, and loathes. The video […]