A Review on Art Review Power 100, 2023 7 January 2024
In Art Review's Power 100, the broader infrastructure of the art world is of interest, not critical analysis or interpretation. Questions such as why a certain form of art is produced and displayed? How is it displayed? And who decides what gets seen? It is one of the questions that is taken into consideration when choosing each of the names.Forty people from all over the world anon...
Introducing Some Prominent NFT Artists in Iran and the World 18 November 2023
The value of NFT is largely related to the artists who created it. If an artist is known in the field of traditional or digital art, their NFT productions will also receive more attention. NFT artists in Iran and around the world are usually found through their high volume followers in social media, or they even work under pseudonyms or anonymously. Among these artists, there are al...
A short story of four Iranian collectors 12 October 2023
Art News Top 200 Collector’s list has identified and introduced influential London collectors since 1999, and in the latest list presented in 2022, the names of four Iranian collectors are also included. In the following, we introduce these collectors.
The Role of Galleries in the Art Market; Iranian Gallery Owners and Multilateral Strategies 26 August 2023
In the system of art economic, galleries are part of the primary market, although they also sell works privately through their networks in the secondary market. Gallery owners in Iran have gone beyond these and included online auctions to art calls in their work plans. This multilateralism is evident in the activities of many Iranian gallery owners, because the burden of promoting v...
Collecting Art in Contemporary Iran; From Artists to Archivists 29 July 2023
Art collecting in contemporary Iran is more of a patronage that even leads to archival activities. But is it possible to classify Iranian art collectors and talk about their motivations? In this short essay, Savana Boghossian has tried to propose a framework for art collecting in Iran, considering the limited information at hand.
Female Art Players in Iran's and Middle East's Art Scene 23 May 2023
Women have always played an important role in the development of Middle Eastern culture and art, while there are few references to their activities in art history books. Recently, there have been many efforts to recognize female artists and their influences, but the women who have been involved in the presentation of art, are still lesser-known actors in the region's art world. This...
Not all artworks reach the art market: Which artists have captured the market? 30 January 2023
Due to the limitation applied to the supply in the art market, this market has an exceptional nature that many economists have avoided explaining it in the form of conventional interpretations; In this article, Mehrnoosh Ali Madadi has investigated the nature of this market in relation to its main players and how to enter it.