I’ve always had a love for artwork since I was little, and when I got old enough to decide what I wanted to do, I knew being an artist was the best way for me to make a career. While I wasn’t the best, I knew that with enough hard work I could be the
Much like history, music, and entertainment, art movements are titles that connect certain types of artwork to one another for historians. If various artists and popular artworks had similar styles or followed certain trends from one time period to the next, then they are grouped together. This is mostly done by historians who want to
For a few, the art gallery business is immensely lucrative. Here’s how it works, the super-rich invest in artworks which are going to increase the value of their overall portfolio. As art prices rise, the individual’s investment rises but the entire market value rises as well. This is good news for the wealth manager and
The art world doesn’t work the way people think it does. In the contemporary art world most of us would imagine an artwork would become sought after because it has some meaning. We’d also assume the artist was talented and their commentary was at least worth hearing. But it doesn’t quite work that way. The
In 2015 Les Femmes d’Alger set a record, selling at auction for $179.4 million. If you don’t know it or you don’t happen to have $180 million in spare change sitting around the apartment you might not care. You might be right not to care. Is art something we should care about? Before the auction,