The Global Art Market: From Crisis to a New Opportunity 16 March 2025
Over the past two years, the global art market has faced significant challenges and a notable downturn. According to recent reports, total auction sales at major houses such as Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips saw a sharp decline in 2024, continuing the downward trend from 2023.In response, the art market has been exploring new strategies to counteract these losses. One promising...
Cultural Policy and Generative AI: The Classic Copyright Dilemma 17 September 2024
Although the first significant attention to the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution emerged in the cultural sector, notably through the 2016 DeepMind Challenge Match, the prevailing belief was that AI would not significantly impact the fields of culture and art in the near future. This assumption, however, proved incorrect. Perhaps this is why, in June 2024, the Cultural Policy...
New media in the future of the art market: non-physical art in the digital world 30 January 2023
With the acceleration in science and technology, we encounter a new achievement every day; Many of these achievements provide capabilities for artists to be able to use it as a medium or new media for creating artwork. In this essay, Maryam Darvish has discussed the role of new media in creating and representing artworks in the art market. With the acceleration in science and techno...