The Art Law Review: Recent Developments in the Art Market

The year 2020 has been one of uncertainty and challenge for the art market at least as much as for any other sector, with the market having to address the challenges of significantly increased levels of regulation while at the same time dealing with the real-time effects of the covid-19 pandemic and the uncertainties around the looming departure of the UK from the EU. With the UK accounting for the second largest share of the global art market,² the fact that all these factors bear most directly on the market in the UK will have both positive and negative effects on its competitor markets, while they in turn face their own political and regulatory challenges and seek to respond to the exigencies of the post-covid-19 world. Read here