Beyond Borders – The key for art market power
Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida (Lisbon, Portugal)
2-3 November 2020
The present conference seeks to counteract the frequent tendency of scholars of art market studies to mainly focus their attention on collectors, rather than on suppliers and intermediaries. In this spirit, we urge researchers to reflect upon the generic idea according to which these art market players are all the more powerful because they have a multinational presence, specifically various branches in several countries.
For example Christie’s and Sotheby’s, multinational corporations, now dominate the secondary art market, but we can also cite earlier . . . → En lire plus