Opinion Columns

In the last couple of years, major auction houses have seemed to rely more heavily on auction guarantees to keep top-tier sales moving in major art hubs like New York and London. For the contemporary art market, the guarantee has started to look less like an exception and more like infrastructure—closer to structured finance than pure price discovery. But, why would the art market guarantees be rising now? An art market guarantee—whether underwritten by the house or a third

Chen Ching-Yuan is the kind of emerging artist markets notice late: technically exacting yet emotionally oblique, narratively rich but commercially underexposed. His work’s quiet volatility—and a still-modest public profile—signals a gap between artistic significance and art market recognition, a gap that spells opportunity. Constructing the Unseen Chen builds reality out of blur. Figures float between conscience and the unconscious, dream amnesia and deliberate behavior; fa

Paris is no longer just a capital of museums and fashion weeks; it could be positioning itself as a contemporary art trading floor. Over recent marquee October auction cycles with Frieze London and Art Basel Paris , Paris might be taking a visibly larger share of the season’s hammer totals, potentially edging toward London’s long-held dominance in contemporary art. Looking back across roughly twenty years, London used to dominate without question, but new data from the Londo

Since the last 17th Istanbul Biennial in 2022, the city’s art institutions have undergone significant evolution, the economic landscape for artists has shifted, and changing geopolitical dynamics have further impacted art investor confidence. This year’s Istanbul Biennial arrives at a pivotal moment, offering an opportunity to revive an art market characterized by resilient institutions and a strong arts community, yet still challenged by persistent underlying problems . Art

Artist  Pelda Aytas , who recently held her first solo exhibition called ‘Naaile’ at  Gülden Bostanci Gallery , distinguishes herself through her depictions of the inverted male gaze, explorations of body politics, and the ebb and flow of gender roles in modern Turkish society. Combined with her masterful use of medium and the rare institutional recognition she has received, Aytas’s artworks present a promising investment opportunity in the Turkish art market. Color, Contrast

As Kerry James Marshall prepares for his highly anticipated institutional exhibition in Royal Academy of Arts London in September 2025 , we explore the key characteristics and investment potential of his art. While historical data over the past decades indicates periods of volatility in volume, now several factors have come together to create art investment opportunities. In the times of increasingly obscure  macroeconomic environment, volatility in the US stock market and re