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How Auction Guarantees Are Changing The World Of Art

How Auction Guarantees Are Changing The World Of Art

Odd Lots

June 17, 201929m 55s

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Show Notes

Famous, unique pieces of art are inherently illiquid. They don't sell very often, and pricing is inherently difficult to estimate. Nonetheless, it's a huge business, and investors have been attempting for a long time to turn art into a proper asset class. On this week's podcast, we speak to Margaret Carrigan, an editor at The Art Newspaper, about how investors are attempting to financialize the art world via the use of guaranteed prices at auction.

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