Support the fact-based journalism you rely on with a donation to Marketplace today. Give Now!

More people are buying art online, but is that making the fine art market more accessible?

Apr 9, 2021
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.
After receiving tens of thousands in cash, a Danish artist decides to "Take the Money and Run."
Angelos Tzortinis/AFP via Getty Images

It's a good time to buy art made by women

Their work has historically been undervalued.
"Mister Blue," the work on the right, is by Lee Krasner, one of the main artists discussed in Mary Gabriel's new book. It was shown at the Ordovas gallery in London in 2016.
Leon Neal/Getty Images