Georgina Adam, art market journalist | EP47 Subtext & Discourse

Georgina Adam is a journalist and author who has been writing about the interactions of art and finance since the 1980’s. From 2000 until 2008 she was the Art Market Editor of The Art Newspaper where she is currently the Editor-at-Large. She is a contributor to the Financial Times Life & Arts Section, and lectures at Sotheby’s and Christie’s institutes in London. Georgina initially studied Islamic Art at the Ecole du Louvre and also lived for five years in Japan. She is the author of three books about the art market – Big Bucks: The Explosion of the Art Market in the 21st Century (Lund Humphries, 2014), Dark Side of the Boom: The Excesses of the Art Market in the 21st Century (Lund Humphries, 2018); and most recently The Rise and Rise of The Private Museum (2021). She is membership chair of Cromwell Place in London, and a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and The International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA).

Interview with Georgina Adam recorded by Michael Dooney on 4. November 2021 in London, UK.

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• Georgina Adam
  • The Art Newspaper: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/authors/georgina-adam
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgina-adam-15971b12a/
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  • Books:
    • Big Bucks: The Explosion of the Art Market in the 21st Century
    • Dark Side of the Boom: The Excesses of the Art Market in the 21st Century
    • The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum
• How the Scull Sale Changed the Art Market, Anna Louie Sussman
• Charles Saatchi: the man who reinvented art, Ben Lewis
• François Pinault purchases Christie’s auction house, Adrian Hamilton
• Ready to plunge in? The rise and rise of immersive art, Peter Conrad
• London Grads Now.21, exhibition at Saatchi Gallery
• The UBS and Art Basel Annual Report
• Not so metadiverse: women account for just 16% of NFT art market, Annie Shaw

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