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About to Get Shafted Again

Reagan Upshaw Fine Art

The art market follows this trend: paintings depicting Native Americans as ignorant, bloodthirsty savages are much harder to sell than they were 30 years ago, and their fair market value has consequently decreased. It’s a trend that I expect to continue for the foreseeable future, and my appraisals will reflect this.

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How Investors Can Thrive in a Lopsided Art Market

McAllister Fossum Appraisal Services

Authorities on art investment worry that the budding romance could end quickly and badly. The market for fine art seems benign, even healthy, on the surface. billion, a shade under the 2007 all-time high, according to the recently published annual report of The European Fine Art Fair. Global sales rose 7.5

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The Shelf-Life of Evil

Reagan Upshaw Fine Art

The Appraisers Association of America is releasing a new edition of its handbook Appraising Art next spring. I was asked to contribute a chapter on appraising the art of the American West. The #MeToo movement has also affected the value of certain types of art.

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Introducing ISA’s Updated Antiques, Furnishings & Decorative Arts Course Manual

International Society of Appraisers

After a thorough evaluation of the current material, discussions with students about what they’d like to see purged or added, input from the AFDA committee and consideration of current trends, the AFDA instructors have developed the latest version of the course manual.