Seven Days in the Art World

Larry Gagosian,

Britain’s most influential art critics, the Guardian’s Adrian Searle and the Daily Telegraph’s Richard Dorment.

“The monk-artist is an attractive archetype in a world where there are only so many—the belligerent drunk,

Conceptualism arose in the 1960s in part as a reaction to abstract expressionism.

Collector demand for new, fresh, young art is at an all-time high. But as Burge explains, it is also a question of supply: “We are running out of earlier material, so our market is being pushed closer to the present day. We are turning from being a wholesale secondhand shop into something that is effectively retail.

Steve Cohen,

The artist is the most important origin of a work, but the hands through which it passes are essential to the way in which it accrues value.

Sandy Heller

The hierarchy of works reflects a fine balance between rarity and popularity, size and subject matter.