Market

The Art Journal talks to Jacob Barnes, Minor Attractions’ co-founder, about doubling down as the art market struggles to recover

After decades fighting for recognition, Yayoi Kusama turned a deeply personal visual language into a global luxury product. Did her commercial triumph diminish her art?

Joannou, the eighty-six-year-old founder of the Athens-based DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, has been active in the Greek contemporary art scene since the 1980s. He tells George Nelson what’s changed and what’s happening now

Thirty-seven galleries, sixteen countries, €3,500 a booth and twelve prizes: for Messy Business, Jeni Fulton considers what Art-o-rama’s twentieth edition says about where the French market has gone

Gerhard Steidl’s financial difficulties prompted predictions of a wider collapse in art-book publishing. Interviews with publishers, editors and collectors suggest a different picture: not an industry in decline, but one undergoing a profound economic transformation

Artificial intelligence is playing a bigger role in artwork authentication, but how should AI results be weighed against good old human judgement?

Lost artworks, forgotten wallets and rising prices: as digital artists’ careers ramp up, new ways of buying art emerge

Sid Motion appeared to do everything right. Yet it joins a growing number of highly regarded galleries closing or contracting. If the sector’s success stories can’t make the economics work, what does that mean for everyone else?

When news broke that Steidl Verlag had entered insolvency proceedings, many assumed the world's most celebrated art-book publisher was collapsing. The reality is more complex: revealing a business struggling with liquidity, succession and the preservation of its unique printing assets

As the UK's new government reshapes its AI strategy, figures across the visual arts argue Britain’s advantage lies in its creative economy, if ministers invest in the cultural infrastructure needed to sustain it

A major new study suggests the barriers facing women artists are embedded in the museums, galleries and institutional relationships that shape artistic careers, arguing that access to influential networks remains a key driver of long-term market success