“Branding in the New York Art World” Economist.com 10 March 2010.

“Out of the ashes: London’s Contemporary sales” Economist.com 17 February 2009.

“Book review: Henry Adams’s Tom and Jack: The intertwined lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson PollockThe Economist 12 December 2009.

“The highs and lows of the Pop master: Andy Warhol is the bellwether” The Economist 28 November 2009.

“How to make art history: Validation in the contemporary market” The Economist 28 November 2009.

“New or Second Hand: The ins and outs of the primary and secondary markets” The Economist 28 November 2009.

“Inflatable Investments: The volatile art of Jeff Koons” The Economist 28 November 2009.

“Dollars, Cents and Sensibility: Warhol and Doig do it again” Economist.com 14 November 2009.

“A Fair Price at Frieze” Economist.com 17 October 2009.

“The strange case of Maurizio Cattelan” Economist.com 2 October 2009.

“Warhol and Gursky: Two artists who understand the beauty of business” Economist.com 20 September 2009

“Happy Days for Some: The art market may have simmered down, but a few artists are still in high demand” Economist.com 4 July 2009.

“Hippie Picasso: Why is late Picasso enjoying a surge in demand?” Economist.com 27 June 2009.

“Art Basel: Collectors like nothing better than a good economic downturn” The Economist 20 June 2009.

“Crossing to safety: New York’s uneven contemporary art sales” Economist.com 16 May 2009.

“Report from Moscow: The Bear still hungers for new art” The Economist 28 March 2009.

“Caveat Venditor: Underbidder on Chinese bronzes was planning to gift” The Economist 6 March 2009.

“Bull for a night: Echoes of the boom in a notable Paris sale” Economist.com 28 February 2009.

“Scattered to the winds: The YSL/Pierre Berge sale” The Economist 30 January 2009.

“Buyer of Warhol’s Green Car Crash revealed?” The Art Newspaper 12 Dec 2008.

“How will Miami’s art scene weather the economic storm?” The Art Newspaper 12 Dec 2008.

“In and Out of Love with Damien Hirst” The Art Newspaper Oct 2008.

“An in-depth investigation of the Francis Bacon market” The Art Newspaper Sept 2008.

“Damien Hirst: Is he sabotaging his market?” The Art Newspaper July-Aug 2008.

“The recipe for a record price: Auction house hype, media frenzy and billionaire buyers” The Art Newspaper May 2008.

“Auction houses in recession” The Guardian 12 Feb 2009.

“If the work is free, is it art? The art market through artists’ eyes” The Guardian 16 Oct 2008.

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“Letter from London: Reality Art Show” The New Yorker 19 March 2007.


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“Damien Hirst reinvents himself as a lonely romantic painter.” Sunday Times Magazine 3 October 2009.

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“Uber das Phanomen Andy Warhol” Sueddeutsche Zeitung 2 January 2010.

The art market is theatrical and episodic. For reports on key market moments and other art world events, click on a link below:

Sotheby’s November 2009
Christie’s November 2009
Christie’s May 2009
Sotheby’s May 2009
Christie’s November 2008
Sotheby’s November 2008
Art Basel June 2008
Sotheby’s May 2008
Christie’s May 2008
Sotheby’s November 2007
Christie’s November 2007
Frieze Fair October 2007
Art Basel June 2007
Christie’s May 2007
Sotheby’s May 2007
CAA Conference February 2007
Christie’s November 2006
Sotheby’s November 2006
Frieze Fair October 2006
Milano September 2006
Art Basel June 2006
Art Basel June 2006
Christie’s May 2006
Sotheby’s May 2006

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“An Academic Alice in Adland: Ethnography and the Commercial World” Critical Quarterly vol. 41, no. 1, 1999.

“Bye-bye to bling for billionaires” New Statesman 23 Oct 2008.

A SELECTION OF OTHER ARTICLES:

“Is art the new gold?” The Daily Telegraph 4 Oct 2008.

“Untitled L.A.: A Visit to the Studios of Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Mary Kelly, and Ed Ruscha” ArtReview May 2006 (re-published by saatchi-gallery.co.uk).

“Dave Muller: The Lyrical Archivist” ArtReview February 2006 (re-published by saatchi-gallery.co.uk).

“The Artist is the Institution” Art Monthly Dec 2005.

“Nocturnes” Contemporary April 2004