This article examines the symbolic, financial, and visual qualities of spectacular, multi-site, online art auctions staged by Sotheby’s Christie’s during COVID-19 pandemic. It is argued that these events adopted techniques drawn from television gameshows popular cinema culture to create a distinctive screen-based reality for transaction assets. Much rhetoric employed auction houses publicise su...

“...[T]he sound of water escaping from mill-dams... old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brick work, I love such things.... As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight,” wrote John Constable (1776–1837), English landscape painter and source of inspiration for Constant Troyon and others, who looked for subjects not in the classical or academic...

despite the mythology that the global economy with its trade rules creates a ‘level playing field,’ international trade has never involved ‘level players.’ the inequalities in outcomes generated by the more powerful winning more frequently has led to innovative ideas for ex post redistribution to make the matches between the players both fairer, and in the analogy to basketball used by the auth...

This paper investigates the validity of Islamic art as an investment product. We examine the current and future market potential, as well as, performing a hedonic regression analysis on London auction sales from 1998 to 2007. The main findings of the research are; Islamic art returns out performed both the equity and debt markets over the last 10 years; increases in oil prices have a positive e...

This research investigates emergent processes that are required to work effectively when workers rely on information technology, represent different cultures, are geographically dispersed, and lack a shared history of working together; when stakeholder requirements are ambiguous; when internal incentives for work are incongruent; when deadlines are urgent; and when the physical environment is i...

This paper is a case study discussing the evolution of the Performing Arts in our contemporary societies. Globalised societies and economies influence human behaviours creating an enormous impact on the Arts. Considering Art as a communication apparatus that connects people, we examine the way in which performances progress and adjust to current social demands. Even though the globalisation pro...