Moshi Moshi, Medici! Completely Biased Adventures in Contemporary Art Collecting…

So how did I derive this wonderful category?
From Robert Frank of the Wall Street Journal, of course!

Robert Frank, Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich, Crown (June 5, 2007)
 
I’m a great admirer of his writings on the sad state of affairs of people of wealth: the die-hard […]

I don’t think this really effects the die-hard collector: we are still dumb enough to spend whatever it takes to get the pieces that we want.
I definitely do think the current run in speculation of young artists will die down (a good thing) and artists who deserve the recognition will continue to thrive (another good […]

Frugal librarian amassed $8 million art trove
Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:12am EST
By Luke Baker
LONDON (Reuters) - From the outside it’s an ordinary, red-brick house in a terraced row, not unlike tens of thousands of others scattered across Britain.
But on the inside, Jean Preston’s spartan Oxford home contained works of art of international significance, carefully acquired […]

Art LA looks to be promising. Some great galleries are on hand this year, better than last year, with a nice mix of established Los Angeles galleries like Painter, Roberts and Tilton and Selwyn, some newer LA galleries like Honor Fraser and Cherry and Martin and some international heavy-weight galleries like Perrotin and Gavin […]

I am a long-time admirer of the great anime artist Yoshitaka Amano. The creator of such video games as Final Fantasy, Amano presents 30 new works, as well as new anime films. He applies automotive paint on aluminum to depict classic anime heros and villains in action poses, as if taken from the page of […]

Cristina Lei Rodriguez’s first show a Team Gallery was a rerun of the same concepts she’s been working on now for several years: rethinking the concept of “sculpture” through the trembling of the organic with the synthetic. In fact, I often thought Rodriguez sometimes verges to Petah Coyne’s experiments. This is particularly true in the […]

Forbes, Collectors Guide
The Art of the Deal
Susan Adams 12.24.07
How the Nahmad family made billions trading art, and why so many people in the art world can’t stand them.
On the evening of Nov. 6, in the packed Rockefeller Center salesroom of Christie’s auction house, four buyers were vying for a 1955 Picasso oil of Jacqueline, the […]

New tax could hit UK collectors
Rules change for non-domiciles
Melanie Gerlis | 7.1.08 | Issue 187
LONDON. Art market experts are concerned that new taxes on asset gains for overseas investments, coupled with a planned flat £30,000 ($60,000) levy for foreign residents, domiciled in the UK […]

ArtInfo summarizes the obvious. Why do publications bother to make such reviews as ultimately its as clear as what someone with OCD will have for breakfast tomorrow morning.
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2007 in Review: Top Trends of the Year

 
By David Grosz, ARTINFO
December 24, 2007
 
NEW YORK—Last week, ARTINFO kicked off its 2007 year in review, with a list of […]

Those sexy boys, the Danzingers, have consistently reported on the bizarre and complicated world of buying art. And here I thought I could just go into a gallery and buy something off the walls. Here, they discuss shopping at an art fair.
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Thomas and Charles Danziger

Published: January 2, 2008
 
Like lemmings to the sea, we […]