Art as an Asset in the 21st Century

"Art as an Asset in the 21st Century" creates the first global baseline for understanding how art is bought and sold. The three bedrock institutions of the art sector - the art museum, the art dealership and the auction house - are described objectively. In addition, they are joined with four other de facto "institutions" - myopia; innumeracy; the art appraisal establishment; and suppositions and biases unsupported by evidence. All four non-brick-and-mortar "institutions" remain central to ...