CFP: Art as Luxury, Luxury as Art: Markets and the Making of Value, The International Art Market Studies Association Conference, Sotheby’s Institute of Art – New York (Oct 22-24, 2026)
Luxury has long been an important context for art. In sixteenth-century Antwerp, art was a key part of the city’s thriving luxury trade; Our Lady’s Pand—the first permanent art market in Europe—was one…
CFP: Art as Luxury, Luxury as Art: Markets and the Making of Value, The International Art Market Studies Association Conference, Sotheby’s Institute of Art – New York (Oct 22-24, 2026)
Luxury has long been an important context for art. In sixteenth-century Antwerp, art was a key part of the city’s thriving luxury trade; Our Lady’s Pand—the first permanent art market in Europe—was…
CONF: Art, Luxury, and Sustainability: Markets in Transition (London/online, 7 Nov 25)
We are delighted to announced the programme for our international conference ‘Art, Luxury, and Sustainability: Markets in Transition’ taking place at Sotheby’s Institute Of Art in London on 7 November 2025. 9.15 –…
CFP: Art, Luxury, and Sustainability: Markets in Transition (Sotheby’s Institute of Art)
Sotheby’s Institute of Art is organising a conference exploring the challenges, contradictions, and opportunities that sustainability presents to the creative and luxury industries. Taking place on November 7, 2025 at our London campus in…
ANN: Christie’s Education Recycling Luxury Conference, 5th JULY 2019 , London
The concept of luxury is associated with ideas of excess (luxus) or even worse immodesty (luxure). An infamous example involving Cleopatra dissolving a priceless pearl and swallowing it encapsulates some common associations between…