In the eighteenth century Rome became the seat for an international art market, thanks to the demand connected to the local ruling class and to the Grand Tour, a social phenomenon of European level.
Art Crossing Borders offers a thought-provoking analysis of the internationalisation of the art market in the long nineteenth century and its unexpected and ambiguous relation with the simultaneous ri
In The Russian Passion for the Dutch Painting of the Golden Age Irina Sokolova describes the history of the Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings against the background
Transnational markets hold sway over all aspects of contemporary culture, and thathas transformed the environment of recent art, blurring the previously discrete realms of price andvalue, capital and
Known for art that celebrates the virtues of community, hard work, and living gently on the planet, Nikki McClure here explores a topic close to her heart: the farmers market. Alternating between sto
". . . full of known earthly places like the Sahara, ‘Old Russia,’ and Heathrow Airport, jumbled together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle map of the world. Art, artifacts, things, and people partake of
There's an art to selling stilettos and you'd better grasp it. Learn a good wind-up, learn the pull of cash, learn drugs, learn sex, and run wild with the market monkeys. Stay sharp in the ruthless wo
ATIMELESS MEDITATION ON ART AND COMMERCE SEEN THROUGH THE LIFE OF AN EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY JEWISH RUG MAKERMendleman’s life goes through an upheaval when he discovers that he can no lon
