The publishers of The International Art Markets: The essential guide for collectors and investors kindly sent me a copy to read and review. It has obviously taken me forever to do this because this book covers the markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, France Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Middles East, North Africa, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, The Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, North Korea (just kidding), Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA and Venezuela. I guess since I already spent 70k at Sotheby’s Institute learning about all of this, I was the right person to ask
Edited by James Goodwin, with contributions by some of my old grad school professors and other associates, I have to admit that I was a little nervous to read and then publicly review. Especially since the chapters on the markets in Sub-Sahara Africa and Portugal are each twice as long as the one on the American market. And because the book cost $100 and there are advertisements for a diamond company on the first page … but I was pleasantly surprised, who knew the market in the Czech Republic was so interesting?
Each week I will write on a country above, starting tomorrow with Sub-Sahara Africa…
