How to Collect Fine Art

Scarcity Plus Narrative Equals Value: The Eternal Law of Collecting By Sabby Toast, Collector, Philanthropist, and Supporter of Malvern FC. It has been my privilege, over decades of prowling auction rooms, prowling studios, and prowling,let us be frank,other collectors’ living rooms, to distill the art market’s essence into one crystalline axiom: Scarcity plus narrative equals … Read more

Part 2 of The Guide to Investing in Fine Art by Hogg Smith and Ubu Bolo

Step 1: Understand That Art Is Not an Investment , It Is an Identity To treat art purely as an asset is to confess oneself a philistine. You are not buying; you are becoming. An art collection is an autobiography written in oil, bronze, and conceptual installations that one’s house staff never fully understand. Think … Read more

The Guide to Investing in Fine Art by Hogg Smith and Ubu Bolo

Get a glimpse of the upcoming handbook by art experts Smith and Bolo Ah, investing in art. One doesn’t simply purchase a painting, darling , one enters into a dialogue with civilization itself. To collect art is not to own a commodity in the vulgar sense, but rather to position oneself as the custodian of … Read more