ANALYSIS FOR COLLECTORS

Sign Me Up: The Unexpected Pleasures of an Art Buying Collective
Sometimes, we don’t just see the art on our walls, but also the story within it.

Zeitgeist: Serious Gaming
The art world issues influencing our times.

Zeitgeist: A Shift Away From Bricks and Mortar
The art world issues influencing our times.

Cultural Capital: On Liking it Before it was Cool
In this third of an ongoing series on her highly intriguing ethnographic study of the New York art world, Hannah Wohl explains her concept of creative vision as it applies to the endeavours of art collectors.

Lifecycle: Pound of flesh
So, finally you've earned the status of established collector and you're invited to an artist's studio. But the studio visit can be fraught.

Cultural Capital: Why Originality Matters
In this first of a three-part series on her highly intriguing ethnographic study of the New York art world, Hannah Wohl explains her concept of creative vision as it applies to the endeavours of artists, dealers and collectors.

Cultural Capital: You Know Who You Are
The art world snobs we know and love(?)...

Survey: We Asked Leading Gallerists…
What's the one thing you look for when taking on a new artist?

Agenda: A New Playground For Digital Art
What is an NFT? And more importantly, what does it mean for the art collector?

With All Due Respect: The Bigger Picture
A cautionary tale: Where did things go wrong with Santiago Sierra’s 'Union Flag'?

Money Sullies Art: Influencer or Master?
There’s a remaining romantic notion of artists that would have them properly shunning self-promotion. But increasingly, artists are turning to social media channels to sell their work, and collectors are getting comfortable with that.

Behind the Scenes: All For a Good Cause?
Are the costs to an artist of donating their works to charity auctions ever worth the benefit of exposure?

Behind the Scenes: Art Life Post-Covid
Fighting funding cuts, organisation closures and social distancing requirements, the Australian art world is finding new ways to engage and evolve as the world wakes up to a post-Covid reality.

Lifecycle of a Collector: For Love or Money, or Both?
Whatever their motivation, there’s no doubt artwork donations by artists and collectors benefit our public art institutions.

Cultural Capital: The Reasons You Buy Art
The arguments to whip out at your next dinner party as to why you dropped 20k on that new piece in the sunroom.

With All Due Respect
Should public galleries spend more of their acquisition budgets on local artists and less on big ticket international art?