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Art Market Watch

Why Collectors Are Drawing on Art Loans Earlier Than Ever

Borrowing against art was once discreet and reactive. Today, collectors are drawing on loans earlier than expected—revealing a quieter shift in how art, liquidity, and control intersect.

Art Market Watch

Collectors Behaviour: Wealth on the Wall, Friction in Cash

A slowdown in top-end sales is pushing collectors to draw on art-backed credit far earlier, turning stored and displayed works into active financial tools.

Crowded Sotheby’s salesroom in New York with bidders raising paddles as the auctioneer drives the price higher.

Latest Art News

A New High, A New Roar: Auction Nights That Shoved the Art Market Back Into Orbit

Klimt, Kahlo and a gold toilet sent the New York salesrooms into a delirious sprint, pushing prices into territory that stunned even veterans.

Buyers flood back to blue-chip names, outsider art, and emotionally grounded photography.

Latest Art News

Art Market Trends 2025: Why Collectors Are Returning to Blue-Chip Classics

From Old Masters to photography, buyers are abandoning digital speculation and seeking stability in proven, historically grounded art.

Close-up of a motherboard with an AI chip symbolizing artificial intelligence as the new engine of creativity in art.

Latest Art News

Curator's Dilemma: Can AI Make Art?

As AI enters the museum, curators face the hardest question of all: where does creativity actually live?

Unit Gallery’s Don’t Look Back exhibition curated by Beth Greenacre and Sigrid Kirk.

Field Notes

Don’t Look Back With Teeth: UNIT Gallery’s Survival Gig

Curators Beth Greenacre and Sigrid Kirk stage a festival-style exhibition that swaps swagger for stamina, pitching ’90s legacies against today’s precarity and digital myth-making.

Digital art restoration via an MIT AI mask

Art & Tech

Digital Art Restoration: MIT AI Mask Restores in Hours

MIT’s reversible AI “mask” restores damaged paintings in hours—mapping 5,612 regions and 57,314 colors. See how digital art restoration brings works back to view.

Booths at international art fair during market downturn debate

Latest Art News

Art Market Armageddon? Why Headlines Distort Reality and How Reporting Should Change

Are art market downturns as dire as headlines suggest? Discover why cycles, nuance, and responsible reporting matter more than fear-driven narratives.

Frieze Seoul 2025 art fair at COEX in Gangnam, South Korea

Latest Art News

Frieze Seoul 2025: The Ultimate Art Lover’s Travel Guide to the Fair, the City, and Beyond

Plan your trip to Frieze Seoul 2025 with our curated art travel guide. Explore the fair at COEX, discover Frieze House Seoul, must-see museums, gallery districts, the best hotels, and where to eat—from barley rice to fugu—during art week in Seoul.

Art & Tech

AI, Money, and the Future of Art: Art as the Last Currency

Art is feeling, thought, love, time, emotion, resonance—experience crystallized in form. Against the future of soulless, fractionalized “art,” only meaning remains rare —Panu Syrjämäki, Editor-in-Chief, ART Walkway News

Millennial and Gen Z gallerists reshaping the art world with collaborative, decentralized approaches

Art Market Watch

Millennial and Gen Z Gallerists Redefine Success Beyond Art-World Empires

A new generation of galleries is trading expansion for collaboration, community, and decentralized art ecosystems.

Black-and-white side portrait of Panu Syrjämäki, Editor-in-Chief of ART Walkway, reflecting on the ethics of AI and authorship.

Art & Tech

How AI Systems Use Your Work and Forget Your Name

As AI systems use creative work without consent, art and AI critic Panu Syrjämäki asks: What’s left of authorship in a world built on erasure?