Talenia Phua Gajardo, founder of The Artling, lets us in on a few secrets… There’s a chance that the painting you bought to match your sofa may increase in value over a time, or it could still be worth next to nothing after sitting in storage for decades. When it comes to investing in art,
Budiardjo “Budi” Tek, the celebrated Indonesian-Chinese art collector who founded Shanghai’s Yuz Museum, has died from pancreatic cancer. He was 65, and had been diagnosed with the disease six years ago. “As one of Asia’s top collectors, Mr. Tek collects but never hesitates to share,” his family wrote in a statement confirming his passing on March 18.
The German government is in negotiations to buy the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin after the museum’s owner, an Austrian property investor, said it will end the lease on the extension to the museum and demolish it to make way for new office buildings. The museum is owned by the Austrian property company CA Immo. A
Right now, the traditional art market is dipping their toe into digital fine art. More and more people can see the value of blockchain technology when it comes to recording provenance data for traditional art. I think this year we’ll see new platforms that enable artists who paint on physical canvas to record their provenance
Game design looks set to the be nest frontier for generative AI. We’ve already seen Google researchers make an AI Doom recreation, and Tencent recently revealed initial researching into what could become an open-world game generator. Now Electronic Arts (EA), the video game giant behind Battlefield, The Sims and FIFA, has confirmed what we already
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In such a secretive marketplace, dealers are prized as much for their knowledge as their discretion. You need to know not just which artist is going up in value, but where the paintings are, who wants to buy and which collectors might be ready to sell. (Dealers talk of the three Ds that drive sales:
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size On a lazy afternoon in June 2020, in the Pacific island country of Vanuatu, Inigo Philbrick was at a market in Port Vila with his fiancée, British reality TV star Victoria Baker-Harber, of Made in Chelsea fame. They had just had lunch and were seeking out a
An unearthed diary has potentially offered horrific new details on the gruesome murder of legendary art dealer Brent Sikkema. Sikkema, 75, moved to Rio de Janeiro last Christmas after spending two years attempting to settle an acrimonious divorce with his estranged husband Daniel, 53. Daniel was seeking an ‘unreasonable’ $6 million of his reported $20 million
The Los-Angeles based dealer, investor and self-styled art-world disruptor Stefan Simchowitz, who burst on to the art scene eight years ago describing the art world as a “mafia” and those who run galleries as “idiots”, is opening a gallery in West Hollywood on 6 March. The 1,350 sq. ft space will be used to show