This paper investigates the impact of equity markets and top incomes on art prices. Using a long-term art market index … equity market returns have a significant impact on the price level in the art market. Over a shorter time frame, we also find … empirical evidence that an increase in income inequality may lead to higher prices for art, in line with the results of a …

Art critics and scholars have acknowledged the breakdown of their explanations and narratives of contemporary art in … the face of what they consider the incoherent era of "pluralism" or "postmodernism" that began in the late twentieth … century. This failure is in fact a result of their inability to understand the nature of the development of advanced art …

advanced art in general, it came to be dominated by conceptual innovators. Sherman's celebrated creation of artificial scenes …

differences in college experience across majors, are whether either (a) the Scientific worldview or (b) Postmodernism has negative …

extraordinary individuals or small groups. For the first time in the history of the discipline, within the last decade economists … their greatest contributions late in their lives. In contrast, conceptual innovators use their art to express ideas and … the artist as experimental or conceptual. This effectively depends on whether the artist works inductively, building his …

another example of an art in which the most important practitioners have had radically different goals and methods, and have …