Seasoned art dealer Michael Findlay's book addresses head-on questions like, "Is art a good investment?" The Value of Art (due out in May from Prestel, $29.95 in hardcover) draws on Findlay's…
As works by Chinese artists fetch multimillion-dollar prices, the international art world is waking to the power of the Asian market. China has spawned hundreds of new galleries, 1,600 auction…
Starting with the Old Masters and continuing through the present, John Castagno has documented signatures, monograms, and initials—most of them readable, some of them strange or illegible—and…