The Lemming Market
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian: Asset Class Art, 10 May 2018
Dark Side of the Boom: The Excesses of the Art Market in the 21st Century
by Georgina Adam.
Lund Humphries, 232 pp., £20, January 2018,978 1 84822 220 5 Show More
by Georgina Adam.
Lund Humphries, 232 pp., £20, January 2018,
A History of the Western Art Market: A Sourcebook of Writings on Artists, Dealers and Markets
edited by Titia Hulst.
California, 416 pp., £28, November 2017,978 0 520 29063 1 Show More
edited by Titia Hulst.
California, 416 pp., £28, November 2017,
“... by two enormous shopping malls on an island in the Persian Gulf. Harmless, right? Not entirely, Georgina Adam writes. In Dark Side of the Boom: The Excesses of the Art Market in the 21st Century she makes a convincing case that dizzying valuations have deleterious effects on our understanding and appreciation of art. Focusing mostly on contemporary ... ”