Yes, according to critic Blake Gopnik. When the market was thriving, he says, “the art was just unbelievably terrible.”
A luxury goods company went up against a digital artist. The artist lost.
Since the blockbuster auction of Paul Allen’s collection, the art market might be losing some of the wind in its sails.
Art critic Blake Gopnik comments on the record-setting auction, as well as his own interactions with the late Microsoft co-founder.
Online art sales doubled during the pandemic, but that didn’t necessarily make it easier to break into the art world — as a collector or as an artist.
Masha Golovina of Masterworks.io talks about the two-tiered economy and says that when physical art fairs are coupled with online sales, “that’s the ideal mix.”
Critics ask why it took so long.
Their work has historically been undervalued.