Art Invest Srl claims it will sell paintings and buy them back for a 6.8% value increase over 18 months

But can the notoriously fickle art market ever be considered a sure bet?

The large-scale investment vehicle raises major questions about who gets to decide where, how and to whom art circulates

Thirteen artists have been commissioned by the musician to make works corresponding to singles on his new record

Francis Bacon’s triptych Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer revealed as the first work to be listed on Artex, starting at around $55m

Service offered by the New York-based alternative investment platform Yieldstreet promises healthy returns to investors willing to buy "blind"

It is now normal to consider art a bankable asset—for the very wealthy at least—but the art market is too volatile and risky for most investors

Art market economists warn US may soon reach a state of stagflation not seen since the 1970s - and buying art might not help investors

Tech-led art businesses are starting to attract venture capitalist funding, with the NFT platform MakersPlace recently gaining $30m investment

Art as a blue-chip investment has had its day, as buyers chase the latest "red-chip" names

Like a stock ticker, the new data platform scrapes the internet to give users a constant stream of information about art

Art is pitched as an asset class, but even big-name artists are not guaranteed to hold their value, let alone turn a profit

2010 will be a year of continued reshaping

In 2007 the economist James Sproule examined the risks facing the market—and the good news was it was not all doom and gloom

The veteran dealer Richard Feigen on the state of the art market in 2007

We observed that while the market was feeling fragile during the 1991 slump, fortunes have a way of turning around