en | Commercialism has suffocated traditional art. Is digital art next?
Just like Bitcoins are scarce, so too can original digital artwork now be scarce, even if duplicates remain common in the same way that prints or photographs of physical artwork are common. Proponents argue that this would democratize and decentralize art, helping artists get paid, helping resolve issues of authorship and ownership that the internet had rendered murky.
Article by Oliver Roeder
en | The authors present a novel investment framework for art by reconsidering the art market from the point of view of artists rather than art investors. They propose a model in which artists retain fractional equity in their work at the point of first sale. The fractional shares reflect the artist’s role as an early stage investor in his or her own art.
Once those equity shares exist, it is possible to create a secondary market in those shares, independent of the sale of the actual work of art. Such a system has not existed before, and would enable a diversifiable and more democratic investment in art.
Article by Amy Whitaker and Roman Kräuss
en | Artsy analyzed two sample cohorts of the world’s top collectors to see how the industry make-up behind the most elite collectors has changed over the last two decades.
Article by Anna Louie Sussman
de | Wenn Kunst nur noch entweder als Luxus oder als Statement funktioniert, gelten dann überhaupt noch künstlerische Kriterien? Ein Gutes hat der Markt aber: Er ist nicht moralisch. Eine Bilanz.
Artikel von Wolfgang Ullrich
en | A talk by Hossein Farmani about why to collect art, how do collectors determine the value of artworks and what is the difference between limited and unlimited.