The Easel

6th August 2019

Where Women Outpace Men in the Market

Michael Klein | Art Agency Partners | 1st August 2019

A recent Easel essay highlighted the low prices for works by female artists. Is that beginning to change? Recent auction prices of works by women have risen faster than for men, a marked change from “the last 50 years”. Still, over 90% of auction revenues come from works by male artists so they “need not fear a drastic loss of market share to female artists anytime soon”.

Adversarial Art Worlds: A Report from Christie’s Art + Tech Summit

Mike Pepi | Art in America | 25th July 2019

Maybe the revolution of algorithm art is less than imminent. Google likes the idea of AI art because it helps “humanize” AI. However, their engineers are not interested in claiming authorship of AI paintings. For them, art is just more data. That’s a problem. Christie’s – indeed, all the art world – sees “the hand of the artist” as paramount. “Christie’s thrives on scarcity. Google does not.”

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