Georgina Adam

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Georgina Adam is a journalist, public speaker, art market expert and author.

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She has been a Financial Times contributor and art market editor-at-large of The Art Newspaper [1] [2] where she began her career as a journalist in the late 80's. She lectures at the Sotheby's Institute in London. [3] She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics and The International Art Market Studies Association. Adam also serves as the chair of the Art Business Conference. [4]

Adam's book, Big Bucks: The Explosion of the Art Market in the 21st Century (2014), discusses big art dealers in a frank, unflinching manner. [5] She also explains how the art market works and how art is rated and valued. [6] Adam's second book, Dark Side of the Boom (Lund Humphries, December 2017), scrutinizes the excesses of the 21st-century contemporary art market explosion. [7] The Telegraph called Dark Side of the Boom a "'must read' for anyone with an interest in the relationship between art and money. [7] It covers buying of art as an investment, the flourishing art storage sector, temptations to forgery and fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, the upheavals in auction houses and the impact of the enhanced use of financial instruments on art transactions. [8] She also looks at whether big money is eroding creativity in art. [9] In the wake of the Panama Papers revelations, she incorporates examples of the way tax havens have been used to stash art transactions – and ownership – away from public scrutiny.

Adam has spoken about a "1–4 per cent rule", which indicates people generally do not spend more than that amount of their net worth on an individual piece of artwork or a 'passion investment'. [10]

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  1. ↑ Georgina Adam (26 January 2018). "While I revile Trump as much as the next man, Nancy Spector was wrong to offer the Golden Toilet". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "Art: Picasso Sale Doubles Expectations". The Santa Fe New Mexican. 5 February 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2018– via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Georgina Adam". Sotheby's Institute of Art. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "Church House Westminster hosts The Art Business Conference". Incentive Travel. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  5. ↑ "Adam Paints the Art World in New Light" . Evening Standard. 23 June 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2018– via EBSCOhost.
  6. ↑ Wetzler, Rachel (26 February 2018). "How Modern Art Serves the Rich". The New Republic. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  7. 1 2 Gleadell, Colin (7 November 2017). "Dark Side of the Boom: Georgina Adam on the relationship between art and money in the 21st Century". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  8. ↑ Dalley, Jan (29 December 2017). "Dark Side of the Boom by Georgina Adam — the art market book of 2017". Financial Times. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  9. ↑ Reyburn, Scott (9 February 2018). "The Political Scientist Giving the Art World Something to Think About". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  10. ↑ "Hunt for new master of record-breaking Da Vinci". Financial Times. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
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