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Franz West’s Gekröse At Art Basel
Gagosian Gallery is showing Franz West’s largest outdoor sculpture to date, Gekröse, at Art Basel 2012.
The above graph presents a snapshot of Franz West’s single artist Index, showing his performance against the DAX from 2000 to 2007!
Find out more about Franz West performance over time in artnet Analytics Reports!
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Spring Sales of Latin American Art
For Latin American art auctions in New York, the score was Phillips de Pury (US$3.5 million), Christie’s (US$27.7 million), and Sotheby’s (US$26.8 million).
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Speed! Money And The Global Art Market
Speed is a synonym for velocity and the slang term for amphetamine, a drug creating an ecstatic illusion of rapidity and efficacy.
Money, which plays an increasingly important role in the dynamics of the global art market, has a similar effect. Money dynamizes and accelerates the art market—not just temporarily but structurally.
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Comparing Latin-American Artists
Since Latin-American Art is being auctioned everywhere this week, we used our analytics tool to compare three of the most important featured artists: Fernando Botero, Carlos Cruz-Diez, and Jesús Rafael Soto.
Who’s work do you want to invest in?
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The Future Of The Art Market
Although the art market has outperformed other markets for the last 15 years, do we need to proceed carefully?
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Understanding the Art Market
Thomas Galbraith, director of analytics at artnet, discusses with The Street the art market, what The Scream famously achieved, whether a crash is coming, and how the new artnet Indices and artnet Analytics Reports makes sense of it all.
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The Art Market Crash
Souren Melikian of the International Herald Tribune is predicting, in the wake of this month’s record auction numbers in New York, a coming crash in the Fine Art auction market similar to the famous Japanese real estate bubble of 1989.
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Top 10 Living Artists
A quick comparison: Check out the Top 10 Living American Artists vs. Top 10 Living German Artists!
By the way, the top 10 living American artists are:
- Jeff Koons
- Jasper Johns
- Richard Prince
- Ed Ruscha
- Frank Stella
- Wayne Thiebaud
- Christopher Wool
- Robert Indiana
- Cindy Sherman
- Ellsworth Kelly
All courtesy of our newly launched artnet Analytics product!
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Basquiat in the Art Market
We recently launched our new artnet Analytics—which tracks the market performance of artists and compares them with financial indices, thanks to artnet-exclusive index methodology—and this is just one of the many things it can do: Check out the development of prices for works by Basquiat over the last few years!
