In this conversation, Mohammad Reza Moridi, an art researcher and faculty member at Tehran University of Art, discusses the challenges and research related to the Iranian art market with journalist Hossein Ganji. Moridi explores the historical taboos surrounding the art market and the evolving discourse in this field, highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary research in the...

Art economics as a discipline deal with different issues and topics, with the most important one being art and the market relations. This relationship is the basis for the creation of university courses that partly deal with the economic or material analysis of artistic activities, or study culture and art by applying the economical method. In this short essay, an attempt has been m...

The Arts & Economics, Analysis & Cultural Policy is an outstanding work of Bruno S. Frey, a famous Swiss economist and professor who has a long history in the field of political economy, culture and art. Using the economic perspective, this exciting book offers an alternative view to sociological or art historic approaches to art. The issues discussed include: institutions f...