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All twenty-four entries
Filed by stage of transaction, not by artist, period or medium. The trade's own vocabulary — ex works, nail to nail, temporary admission, reserve — is the index.
Price
How a number is arrived at, and why it is not on the wall.
- Why the Price Is Not on the Wall
- How a First Price Gets Set
- The Reserve
- Primary and Secondary Are Different Markets
Booth
What a stand costs and what it is for.
- What a Booth Costs and What It Is For
- Hanging a Booth
- The Calendar Is the Strategy
- Who Actually Buys at a Fair
Estate
The market for the dead, which is a different market.
- The Market for the Dead
- The Catalogue Raisonné
- Authentication, and Why Nobody Wants to Do It
- Provenance Is a Chain, and Chains Break