A crisis hits the art market once a decade. What is different this time? Christie's president Dirk Boll assesses the impact of the pandemic
Dirk Boll Photo: Michael Kindermann It was while helping Christie’s adapt its business to the pandemic era that Dirk Boll started writing down his thoughts on the crisis in the evening. Now Boll, the auction house's president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has amalgamated those thoughts into a new book, published in German with a title that translates into English as What’s Different This Time? Economic Crises and New Art Markets. We asked him to explain what distinguishes the coronavirus crisis from the previous art market crises that have struck about onc...
Source: theartnewspaper.com