Jeff Koons Baroque Egg with bow sold for $5,458,500 last night in 2007 one of his six hanging hearts sold for $23,600,000
FADwebsite favourite Ben Lewis over at The Times has written an article about how the art market was manipulated to ever higher levels and how it was always destined for collapse,view it: here
Ben Lewis’s documentary The Great Contemporary Art Bubble is on BBC4 on May 18 at 9pm.
Mark Westall has spent over thirty years creating platforms for culture. Since founding FAD Magazine in 2006, he's dedicated his career to documenting, championing and questioning contemporary art through publishing, criticism and conversation. As founder and editorial director of one of the UK's leading independent contemporary art publications, he has interviewed artists, reviewed exhibitions and covered the ideas shaping contemporary visual culture for more than two decades. He also founded Art of Conversation, Despoke and FAD Bazaar, and regularly serves as a judge for international art and photography awards.
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