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The Art Fair as Network

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In this paper, the authors aim to advance the idea of the network and the art fair with regard to art fair boom, the differentiation of art fairs and their interlinking.
Abstract
Although Howard Becker defines art worlds as networks of cooperating people and a broad range of studies has applied this idea of the network to art markets, research on fairs remains a neglected issue. This article aims to advance the idea of the network and the art fair with regard to the art fair boom, the differentiation of art fairs and their interlinking, and the role of networks with regard to the participating galleries and their interlinking within art fairs. Quantitative and qualitative data are brought forward to shed some light on these issues, including statistical information, along with interviews.

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Collectors, Investors and Speculators: Gatekeeper use of audience categories in the art market:

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The evolution of the art fair

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the evolution of the art market and the art fair, including its network-like structure, and how it became the core business structure of the contemporary art world.
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Art Fairs as a Medium for Branding Young and Emerging Artists: The Case of Frieze London

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the role of art fairs in the process of branding young and emerging artists, and present a case study of a prestigious art fair, Frieze London, in terms of valuing and branding contemporary art.
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Diversity and (In)equality in the Global Art World: Global Development and Structure of Field-Configuring Events

TL;DR: In this article, the authors make a contribution to the globalisation of the arts, but from a sociological and quantitative perspective, based on a large-scale quantitative survey, they find tendencies to homogenisation and heterogenisation existing at the same time or that the locality of these events acts as a source of uniqueness and innovativeness.
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The structural transformation of the public sphere : an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society

TL;DR: A preliminary demarcation of a type of Bourgeois public sphere can be found in this article, where the authors remark on the type representative publicness on the genesis of the Bourgois Public Sphere.
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Where do markets come from

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider a production market with two sides: producers are a fully connected clique transacting with buyers as a separate but aggregated clique, each producer is a distinctive firm with a distinctive product, and each side continually monitors reactions of the other through a joint social construction, the schedule of terms of trade.
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Markets from Networks: Socioeconomic Models of Production

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the evolution of a market over time, including the following: 1. FIRMS EMBED into a MARKET 2. Estimating Qualities and Parameters 158 3. Market plane 49 4. Quality and Unraveling 78 5. Signaling and PARADOX 95 PART TWO: MARKET COMPETE, TOO 6. Substitutability Extended 121 7. Market Space 139 8. Facing Upstream or Down 177 10. Embed and Decouple 200 11.