Visual Arts
2014 global art market exceeds pre-recession levels
Each year TEFAF commissions a report on the status of the global art market; 2014 findings have bolstered market confidence.
Can crowd-funding save journalism?
Crowdfunding is pioneering a different relationship between reader and writer.
Six rules of a good online booking experience
Great, someone wants to come to your show. But make booking too hard and they might give up or never…
Why you should try improv
Improvisation skills can deliver work by improving audition performance and providing a strong background for corporate training.
Is that a Whiteley? Why collectors buy lousy fakes as masterpieces
An obsession with names of artists, instead of the quality of the art is a key to the problem of…
How to turn a chat into an opportunity
Conversation equals wealth if you know how to leverage casual encounters into marketing opportunities.
Arts education: an antidote to cat memes
Will future historians view the internet as heralding a new Dark Age, a time of lost opportunity and widespread cultural…
From sport to art: Sothebys building shareholder value
Formerly with MGM, strategist Tad Smith will take over as CEO of Sotheby's in New York and looks to greater…
What a digital aura can do for art
As privacy campaigners consider the dangers of mining metadata, we look at the implications for the arts of your online…
Overcoming creative fear: a bestseller's guide
Best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert took aim at the often-paralysing traits of fear and perfectionism in her talk on "How to…