Art Market Explainers
Art Lending Market Size and Growth: Where the Industry Stands in 2026
The global art lending market sits near $40 billion in 2026, growing 8 to 12% a year. Who lends, at what terms, and why the market keeps expanding.
Features & Analysis
Long-Form Research on the Art Market
Deeply reported features from the Masterworks Research Team, published weekly.
Art Market Explainers
Art in Multi-Family Office Portfolios: Current Allocation Trends
Wealthy collectors now allocate 20% of their wealth to art, up from 15% a year earlier. How multi-family offices handle that allocation in 2025 and 2026.
Art as an Investment
Art in Emerging Market Booms: Lessons From China 2005 to 2015 and Russia 2000 to 2008
How new wealth drove the Chinese and Russian art booms, why both overshot and corrected, and what the cycle teaches investors about emerging-market art demand.
Opinions & Explainers
Art Freeports Explained: Why Billions in Art Sit in Tax-Free Warehouses
Art freeports store an estimated $100B+ in art tax-free. How they work, who uses them, and what investors need to know about the risks.
Opinions & Explainers
Art and 1031 Exchanges: What Changed and What Options Remain
The 2017 tax law killed 1031 like-kind exchanges for art. Here's what collectors lost, how the 28% collectibles tax works, and which deferral strategies still exist.
Data and Research
Appraisal Lag: Why Art Valuations Are Always Looking Backward
Appraisal-based art valuations lag the real market and smooth out volatility, the same way private real estate and PE marks do. Here is why that matters for measuring risk.
Art Market Explainers
Anti Money Laundering Rules in Art: What the 2025 FinCEN Regulations Mean
FinCEN has not finalized a fine art AML rule, and US and EU KYC rules already make laundering money through art very hard. What investors should know in 2026.
Art Market Explainers
Reading the Tape: Auction Estimates as a Signal of Market Direction
Why presale estimates miss, what the direction of those misses says about collector confidence, and how independent forecasting creates an underwriting edge.