Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Saturday, August 16, 2025

A Tale of Two Statues (in Denmark and U.S.)

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 Public art is one of those things that depends in different ways on public and political support. So, in Denmark, one statue of a mermaid i...
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Crypto art by Scott Kominers

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Scott Kominers is interviewed about crypto art, by Lorepunk: How Harvard Professor Scott Kominers Makes PFP Puzzles Out Of Math Lorepunk ...
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Trans Forming Liberty. Amy Sherald at SFMOMA

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 Sometimes politics make an artwork even more politically fraught than when it was painted.      
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Art sales by brokers

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 High priced art sold by Sotheby's isn't all sold at auction. Sometimes it is privately brokered. The Financial Times has the story ...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Repugnant sales of art: deaccessioning, in Switzerland

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 "Deaccessioning" is a repugnant transaction in the art world, in which it's often considered acceptable to sell art only to f...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

The underbelly of the global art market (NYT)

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 Art is not just art, it's also an investment opportunity, and one that evades many of the regulations that apply to investments recogni...
Saturday, August 19, 2023

Calligraphy fan: OR and Game Theory

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  Haibo Wang visited and brought me a fan, with calligraphy from his dad in Chinese characters. Alex Chan  translates: "What is written...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Deaccessioning dispute at Valparaiso

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 Selling donated art is controversial, but it is tempting when the budget is bare... The NY Times has the story: Its Georgia O’Keeffe Is Wor...
Monday, November 28, 2022

The market for large dinosaur fossils

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Should fossils be regarded as national treasures, or as natural resources, or perhaps works of art?  The NY Times has the story: As Dinosaur...
Friday, May 6, 2022

Repugnant trade in (and study of) fossils

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 Who should be allowed to export, study and display important fossils? Nature has the story: How a Brazilian dinosaur sparked a movement to ...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

The Art Mart

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  Art galleries are (among other things) middlemen, intermediating between artists and buyers of art, who may range from passionate consumer...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

The market for ballet dancers, by Olivia Hartzell

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  Here's a post about the market for ballet dancers, by Olivia Hartzell , an econ Ph.D. student at Harvard whose previous profession was...
Saturday, February 5, 2022

The black market in looted antiquities

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  The market for ancient art has a dark underside, that involves not just the usual shady characters we expect to encounter in black markets...
Saturday, November 13, 2021

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), in Harvard Business Review, by Kaczynski and Kominers

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  Can a new form of property rights created by blockchains also create valuable new kinds of markets? Or even communities?   How NFTs Create...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Venus of Willendorf, on OnlyFans

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  The NY Times has the story: OnlyFans May Be a Refuge for Nude Fine Art. The Vienna Tourist Board has joined the adults-only site to displa...
Saturday, July 3, 2021

The art of money laundering through the art market

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  What looks like privacy to some looks like secrecy to others. The NY Times has the story: As Money Launderers Buy Dalís, U.S. Looks at Lif...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

Debating deaccessioning

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 The museum world is divided about deaccessioning--i.e. selling art to finance things other than the purchase of more art, such as museum op...
Monday, December 28, 2020

The cost of a horse's smile (and the supply chain of chess sets)

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 Among the pandemic shortages (along with toilet paper) are chess sets, whose sales have soared in response to the Netflix series "The ...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

Another art museum cancels sale of art in response to pushback

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 The NY Times has the story about another last minute cancellation of a "deaccessioning" sale by an art museum: Baltimore Museum o...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Auction of art from Jerusalem museum postponed at the last moment

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The Guardian has the latest: Auction for Jerusalem museum’s treasures postponed at last minute--Sotheby’s in London had been due to sell mor...