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HYPE, SIGNAL & NOISE
By Ed McKinley
|Luckbox examines data, trends, probabilities and human behavior to find better ways of handling our money and living our lives. It’s a process that requires the ability to distinguish between… -
Luckbox Leans In With Chris Law …
|… On the art of footwear design and the importance of creating with passion As a child, Chris Law became fascinated with the hip-hop culture of the Bronx even though he grew… -
The Art of the Guarantee
|THE TWO BIG AUCTION HOUSES ARE EARNING RECORD PROFITS AS THE INCREASINGLY WEALTHY TOP 1% SPEND MORE ON ART. HERE’S WHAT INVESTORS NEED TO KNOW AS ONE OF THE SCENE’S… -
High Art
|After a down year in 2020, prices exploded in 2021 for physical and digital art A work of art called Everydays—The First 5000 Days exists solely on the internet and has… -
A Bullish Case for NFTs
By Mark Helfman
|COLLECTORS ARE BEGINNING TO EMBRACE ARTWORK THAT RESIDES ON COMPUTERS At some point in the 20th century, adding machines became so sophisticated that they crossed a lineand became computers. Their… -
Art, Design and the Golden Ratio
By Ed McKinley
|Here’s the case for basing art and architecture on numbers from the Fibonacci sequence—and the case against it The golden ratio has been capturing the imagination of scholars for more… -
State of the Arts
By Mike Reddy
|The art market is booming, but most people can’t afford Picasso or a Basquiat. Here’s why they should pay attention anyway. Don’t worry about understanding abstract paintings or learning to appreciate… -
Art, Design & the Shape of Things to Come
By Ed McKinley
|Like the stories that form this issue’s feature section, the illustration on the right represents a thematic mashup of the art market’s old guard and newest players: Grant Wood’s American… -
Score Your Piece of a Picasso
By Mike Reddy
|Don’t have millions of dollars to invest in artwork? A private investment platform fractionalizes high-value art so nearly everyone can get a piece of the action. Masterworks flipped Banksy’s Mona… -
The Shape of Things to Come
By Ed McKinley
|The journey of a noted designer-architect shows what may lie ahead for all of us CHICAGO-BASED JORDAN MOZER + ASSOCIATES LTD. BEGAN OFFERING AN UNUSUALLY BROAD RANGE OF INTEGRATED SERVICES…