Concerning Value and Art...

1. Over the past decade, popular interest in contemporary art has soared and the market for art today has broadened and deepened, becoming global to an extraodinary degree. What are the root causes of this radical expansion?
2. Who creates the symbolic value of art?
3. One of the great attractions of contemporary art from a collectors point of view is participation in a desirable social “network”
4. When we talk about the market there is a subtle and unfortunate tendency to merge two different concepts into one: “value” and “price”