Top 10 Exhibited Living Ultra Contemporary Artists in 2020/21

The data delving continues, this week we will be looking at the ultra contemporary artists whose careers somehow still managed to thrive during the ongoing pandemic. This is not to belittle those whose careers perhaps (understandably) did not soar in the last year, but simply another way of observing the…

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The top 9 galleries representing mostly national artists

For our third edition in our data-diving series, we take a look at galleries that are more focused on representing artists from their home nation.   With such a large population, and such a thriving art scene, it’s perhaps not very surprising to see that 9 out of 10 of the galleries are…

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Artfacts and Artnet Partner in Unparalleled Art Market Data and Analytics Alliance

Artfacts is excited to announce an ongoing data partnership with Artnet, the leading provider of art market data, news, and online-only fine art auctions, which will create greatest transparency the art market has ever seen. We will now supplement our curatorial database of more than 1 million exhibitions covering more than 700,000 artists worldwide, with Artnet’s Price Database…

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Top 10 galleries who have discovered stars of today

This time around we will focus on galleries who have discovered the stars of today. In this instance discovered refers to: the gallery exhibiting the artist for their first exhibition. And stars refers to artists ranked in the top 1000.  Here, although these galleries have been selected for the number of…

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A Summer Of Deliciously Intriguing Data.

Top 10 Stars Of Tomorrow For the height of the sweltering summer month of July, we will be delivering a weekly newsletter series that focuses on the fascinating results available to us when we place specific queries into our database. Numbers to crunch on, with your ice cream in hand.…

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A closer look at two leaders of their fields.

In another of our “Top artists from…” series, this week we will be focusing on Canada, and discussing two of their world-renowned artists. Jeff WallRanked 2 in Canada, 150 Globally The “cinematographic” works of Jeff Wall often appear as though he always happens to be in the right place at the right time…

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Instant Confidence in the original paintings you love.

Instant Confidence in the original paintings you love. Remember that big news we hinted at a few weeks ago? It’s here — and just in time for perfect use London and Paris Gallery Weekends, Art Brussels Week, and Kunsttage Basel. We wanted you to be the first to know about…

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Do women have to be naked to get into the Louvre?

The Rise of Female Museum Directors. Last week Laurence des Cars, the current President of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie, was appointed as the next President of the Musée du Louvre. She will be the first female director in the 228-year history of the Louvre. With such momentous news, we thought we’d…

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