Digital Artistry • 04/03/2026 Brooke Shields and Gary Grossman: when luxury art confronts controversy
Art as Investment • 24/05/2025 How the legacy of Jean-Michel Basquiat is being monetized by his estate
Collecting Tips • 07/07/2026 Contemporary Ceramics as Collectible Art: Where Craft Tradition Meets Gallery Pricing Learn how to collect contemporary ceramics like a serious art buyer: how to judge clay work, read condition reports, understand kiln risk and wabi-sabi value, and build a coherent ceramics collection in today’s fine art market.
Art as Investment • 04/07/2026 Beyond the Record Sale: Why Institutional Collecting of Women Artists Matters More Than Auction Prices Discover how museum acquisitions, institutional exhibitions, and feminist scholarship are reshaping the market for women artists—and how collectors can read these signals to build resilient, museum‑calibre collections.
Art as Investment • 02/07/2026 Estate Planning for Art Collectors: How to Avoid the Tax Trap That Dissolves Collections Learn how to structure estate planning for art collections to avoid forced sales, manage IRS valuation risk, use trusts and foundations, and preserve both financial value and artistic legacy.
Collecting Tips • 23/06/2026 The Proof-of-Hand Economy: Why Collectors Are Paying Premiums for Visible Craft in an AI-Saturated Market Discover how proof of hand, human authorship, and clear artistic process shape value in handmade art vs AI art collecting, with concrete market data, examples, and due-diligence steps for serious collectors.
Art as Investment • 18/06/2026 The Gulf Collector Class: What Art Dubai, Alserkal, and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Signal for Western Galleries Looking East Discover how Gulf art market collectors in 2026, backed by major institutions, freeports, and global galleries, are turning Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, and Saudi Arabia into a central hub for investment-grade contemporary art.
Art as Investment • 12/06/2026 Fine Art as a Portfolio Asset: What the Data Says About Returns, Correlation, and Holding Periods Data driven guide to fine art as a portfolio asset, covering returns, risk, correlation, holding periods, blue chip versus emerging artists, and real transaction costs.
Studio Visits • 06/06/2026 What It Costs an Artist to Make Work in 2026: Studio Rent, Materials, and the Margin Nobody Discusses In 2026, rising artist studio costs—from rent and utilities to materials and insurance—are quietly resetting primary market prices. Explore concrete figures, a worked $15,000 painting example, and practical guidance for collectors who want to support sustainable studio practices.
Art as Investment • 28/05/2026 The Private Sale Took the Transparency: Where Collectors Go When the Auction Room Stops Providing Price Discovery The private art sales market now rivals public auctions as the real engine of price discovery. Learn how guarantees, off-market deals, and information asymmetry shape fine art values—and how collectors can navigate this opaque landscape.
Art as Investment • 15/05/2026 Investing in Photography Prints: How Sophisticated Collectors Build a Photography-Only Holding in 2026 A design-led guide to investing in photography prints, covering limited editions, condition, framing, key market data and case studies for collectors and interior designers.
Collecting Tips • 14/05/2026 Limited Edition Prints Versus Originals: Where Each Actually Holds Value Over a Decade Learn how to choose between limited edition prints and original artworks, with data-backed auction examples, edition size guidelines, and a practical framework for deciding between a €4,000 print and a €12,000 painting.
Collecting Tips • 13/05/2026 Limited Edition Prints vs Originals: How the Secondary Market Really Treats Them Learn how limited edition prints and original artworks function as parallel asset classes, how auction houses price them, and when editions are a smarter buy for collectors, with real market data and cited case studies.
The Human Hand Premium Is Real. Here Is Why It Will Get Sharper in 2026 Digital Artistry • 07/05/2026 The Human Hand Premium Is Real. Here Is Why It Will Get Sharper in 2026 Explore how the emerging art human hand premium is reshaping digital and hybrid art markets, why collectors now reward visible labor and anatomy-driven craft, and how to build a collection around process-intensive, hand-focused work in a post-AI landscape. by Ainsley Westholm
The Contemporary Artists Reshaping Collector Priorities in 2026: An Investment-Grade Read Art as Investment • 07/05/2026 The Contemporary Artists Reshaping Collector Priorities in 2026: An Investment-Grade Read How to recognise genuinely investment‑grade contemporary art in 2026: signals from museums, auction data, and price bands, plus examples of consolidating artists and practical due‑diligence tips for luxury collectors. by Grant Barlow
Art as Investment • 03/05/2026 Forty-Four Percent: The Number That Is Quietly Reshaping Collections The women artists market has reached 44% of HNW collections and is reshaping pricing, auctions and institutional shows. Why this rebalancing is a long term signal. by Cyrus Blackwood
Art Auctions • 03/05/2026 How to Value a Painting: The Working Checklist Dealers and Auction Specialists Actually Use Learn how to value a painting like a specialist with an eight-factor checklist, auction data tools, real appraisal methods, and a worked 35k valuation example. by Ishmael Bloomfield
Collecting Tips • 28/04/2026 Sound as a Collectible Medium: What the Vatican's Venice Pavilion Signals Explore how the Vatican’s Venice sound pavilion is reshaping institutional attitudes to sound art, and what collectors, designers and advisors must know about buying, insuring and reselling time based sound installations for luxury collections. by Phoebe Baelish
Art as Investment • 23/04/2026 The Blue-Chip Label Is Doing a Lot of Work. What It Actually Promises A clear, data driven guide to building a real blue chip artists list, naming the artists who truly qualify, the costs of holding them, and how to invest wisely. by Fernanda Costa
Art as Investment • 21/04/2026 The Art Basel UBS Report 2026 Says the Middle Is Cracking: Where That Leaves Your Next Purchase Analysis of the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report 2026, explaining the barbell structure in global art sales, key auction and dealer figures, and how collectors can allocate capital across primary markets, private sales and public auctions. by Grant Barlow
Art as Investment • 10/04/2026 How artwork people shape the luxury art landscape How artwork people shape luxury art collections, from framing and size to heritage artists, abstract canvases, and refined wall art curation. by Giles Trevelyan
Studio Visits • 09/03/2026 How a covid 19 photography challenge reshaped luxury art collecting How the covid 19 photography challenge transformed luxury art collections, from intimate lockdown interiors to refined photography projects and long term visual archives. by Claudia Yoshimura
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