How to Buy at an Art Fair Without Overpaying
Reading Time: 3 minutesFairs are engineered to compress decisions. What to settle before you arrive, what is actually negotiable, the costs that follow the price, and the one-hour rule.
How to Register and Bid at a Major Auction House
Reading Time: 3 minutesRegistration is a credit process, not a form. How long it takes, when a deposit is required, the four ways to bid, and why the absentee bid is underrated.
Buyer’s Premium Explained: Why $40,000 Costs You $56,000
Reading Time: 3 minutesHow the premium tapers, why sales tax applies to it, the charges nobody mentions, and how to set a bidding limit that survives contact with the saleroom.
The Art Loss Register: How to Search It, and What a Clean Certificate Proves
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe market’s closest thing to a title search: what the ALR covers, what you need to run one, what a clean certificate does not mean, and the other registers professionals use.
Nine Provenance Red Flags That Should Stop a Sale
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe gaps that require an answer before money moves – and the ones that are simply how records survive. A triage list for buyers.
How to Read a Condition Report — and What Its Silences Mean
Reading Time: 3 minutesCraquelure, relining, overpaint, tenting: what the vocabulary means, why absence of comment is not reassurance, and how auction attribution language works.
How to Verify Art Provenance Before You Buy: A 2026 Guide
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhat to ask for, which databases to search, which gaps matter, and why auction house due diligence is a starting point rather than a guarantee.
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