Deep, disciplined looks at individual living artists — career, pricing, trajectory, and the realistic trade around each.
Institutional demand has rerated African contemporary in five years. Secondary liquidity — meaning, a fair two-way market — is still where it started.
The question isn’t whether AI images can be good. It’s whether any AI work has the structural scarcity to hold a price outside its own ecosystem.
Sherald’s paintings move rarely — and when they do, they move well. That’s a feature, not a bug, and it changes the conversation about her ‘market.’
Art-backed loans have gone mainstream. Most first-time borrowers don’t understand what they’ve given up. We walk through the terms that matter.
The narrative that ‘Asian demand is returning’ misreads the data. The flows never left — they moved channels, time zones, and artist preferences.
Banksy’s market isn’t collapsing — but it is normalizing. We unpack the slow convergence toward ‘normal’ blue-chip patterns and what that costs early buyers.