Art market

In 2025, global art sales hit $59.6 billion – and that’s up by 4 percent year-on-year. The modest increase follows two successive years of decline, though the 2025 total is still well short of the post-Covid 2022 peak of $70.4 billion. So says the tenth annual Art Basel [ … ]

Going through the three art market reports that have landed on magpie’s desk in the last few days – Artprice.com’s The Art Market in 2024; the Art Basel / UBS Art Market Report 2025; and The Intelligence Report: The Year [ … ]

Springtime sees the arrival of the art market numbers, just in time for Art Dubai, with three data-based reports – Artprice.com’s The Art Market in 2024; the Art Basel / UBS Art Market Report 2025; and The Intelligence Report: The [ … ]

The Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting 2024 looks at the way the very rich have been spending their money recently. Authored by Dr Clare McAndrew and conducted by her consultancy Arts Economics in collaboration with UBS, the [ … ]

The mid-year reviews from Artnet, published under the sonorous title ‘The Intelligence Report’, are always an interesting read. Artnet knows about just every auction house in the world that specialises in fine art and antiques, big and small,; and for [ … ]

Art market analyses are always interesting – sometimes for the specifics, more usually for the trends. The specifics can easily be skewed by one-off events; the sales success of a particular artist in a particular year could be down to [ … ]

Artnet’s Intelligence Report – aka The Year Ahead 2024 – makes for an interesting counterpoint to the Art Basel / UBS Art Market Report we surveyed last week. It doesn’t attempt to do the same thing, notably because Artnet concentrates [ … ]

Will it never end? In the face of a deteriorating ecosystem, growing inequality around the world, persistent and increasing inflation feeding through into rising costs all round, geopolitical instabilities and a global drift away from democratic values, the art market [ … ]

At the end of November, Deloitte published the eighth edition of its Art & Finance Report, coproduced with the London-based art market research and data intelligence company ArtTactic (whose other work includes the Online Art Trade Report in partnership with [ … ]

The second annual Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting offers a slightly mixed picture of the art market in the first half of 2023 (good for collectors and dealers, less so for auctioneers and art fairs), but then [ … ]