SPRING SUMMER 2021: ‘ANTHROPOCENE’ A PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION BY ANIA CATHERINE & DEJHA TI PUSHING BOUNDARIES OF CREATIVITY & INNOVATION TO OFFER A NEW CONCEPT TO TRADITIONAL LONDON FASHION WEEK SHOWCASING Mithridate’s Spring Summer 2021 collection, entitled ‘Anthropocene’, is translated into a performance installation by critically acclaimed MTArt Agency represented artists Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti, with original music by […]

by Masha Gribova Earn more than just compliments: an affordable way to invest in art   When you think of growing your money through investment, savings pots like ISAs or investment classes like stocks and shares probably spring to mind. But what about paintings, sculpture or photography? “While art may not always be the most […]

by Charlotte Fletcher If you decided to invest in art, where would you start? You might begin by walking into a gallery in search of an expert, or you might go online to gain an understanding of the kind of works that are appreciating in value. But for all your research, art is often still […]

By Marine Tanguy. Jeff Koons started to produce his inflatable objects as a critique of American consumerism in the 1970s. Consumerism continues to flourish in the US today, as it does in all Western capitalist countries, but with one of Koons’ inflatables recently selling for $91million (the most expensive work by a living artist ever […]

By Marine Tanguy. It is a quirk of history that when we talk about artists it is far sexier to focus on financial tragedy than success. Vincent van Gogh and Rembrandt are as famous for the destitution in which they spent the latter years of their lives, as they are for the works of art […]

By Marine Tanguy. If you decided at this very moment to invest in your first work of art, how would you start? You might begin by walking into a gallery in search of an expert, or you might go online to gain an understanding of the kind of works that are appreciating in value. Yet […]

By Marine Tanguy. If you want a return on your investment, it’s time to think about Bart Simpson. That might sound strange, but we live in a new age of art investment, and a new era of art investors. And it is for this reason that millennial collectors descended on a Sotheby’s auction in Hong […]

One day Marine Tanguy decided to do a test. She posted a picture of her bottom in a bikini to her 24,000 Instagram followers. The post received 75% more views than usual — and most of the viewers were other women. “I’m a grown woman,” says the 29-year-old French founder of arts talent agency MT […]

By Marine Tanguy. When I heard that the Tate Group was following the National Gallery’s example by refusing to take further donations from the Sackler Trust, funded by the Sackler family, I felt a sense of both relief and pride in the arts industry. The Trust has for many years made generous donations to leading […]

By Marine Tanguy. It is undeniable that this generation is experiencing a period of drastic change and facing the resulting societal tensions. What is the role of art and artists within this? If an artistic movement can be taken as constituting a campaign, undertaken to advance and appropriate this change, it becomes clear that a […]

By Marine Tanguy. Over half of collectors are afraid to buy a fake. Why trust is key at every level of art trade, from the artist to the collector, and back to the artist. Not everyone is as lucky as the buyer of Banksy’s Girl with Balloon that shredded itself during the auction to become […]