Art Market Trends 2025

Artsy’s recent Art Collector Insights 2023 report discovered that, amid a period of economic uncertainty, respondents placed a high importance on purchasing prints.

Barriers to entry for his peers, Palley explained, include a sense of ignorance. “We’re used to seeing everything online — click to browse and click to buy — and there is huge transparency and the commercial art world is very opaque and hard to navigate.”

“That doesn’t work for us,” Palley continued. “My generation, we want to see numbers, we want t... See more

Consideration

Though most research paints purchasing art online and purchasing art in person as two concretely separate modes of business, the reality is less clean-cut. In all, 64% of surveyed collectors said they have discovered an artwork online and later purchased it in person, and this number remained fairly consistent regardless of how long t... See more

Gone are the days of needing to be blessed by a particular art critic or granted a degree from a particular art school. Sure, “signal” from particular collectors and marketing by the artist still drives value, but the equal opportunity across the globe for any talented artist to “mint” a piece of work on a particular marketplace and be discovered i... See more