AI Art’s Valuation Problem Is Not What You Think It Is
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.
Banksy, Audited: What Happens When Meme Liquidity Runs Out
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.
Women Artists at Auction: The Rerate Is Real. The Parity Is Not.
Works by women are outperforming works by men on a like-for-like basis. The headline masks a more interesting and less comfortable dataset underneath.
What Comes After Kusama? A Short Answer and a Long One.
Kusama was not a trend. She was a decade-long market structure. Replacing her at the top of global volume is a harder question than it looks.
George Condo: The Portrait That Refuses to Stop Selling
Condo’s market has the oddest quality of any living painter — it keeps working. We audit why, and what should give a disciplined buyer pause.
African Contemporary: The Conversation Has Outgrown the Trade
Institutional demand has rerated African contemporary in five years. Secondary liquidity — meaning, a fair two-way market — is still where it started.