Art Assure, the art investment/advisory bank run by Asher Edelman offers the following useful analysis on the art market in 2013 and its historic performance over the last 10 years as measured by comparison with the stock market and gold. Edelman was a successful wall street financier, taught a course on ‘Corporate raiding(based on the
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The Independent, London, Wednesday 6th February, Nick Clark. Women cannot paint well, despite making up the majority of art students, according to one of Europe’s pre-eminent post-war artists. Germany’s Georg Baselitz has dismissed centuries of female artists at a stroke – from Artemisia Gentileschi and Frida Kahlo to Bridget Riley and Paula Rego – in
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