The art market, explained through its mechanics.
ArtTactic tracks the business mechanics behind visual art, from auction guarantees and resale royalties to fair strategy and market reports. Its interviews favor market context, recent data, and practical detail over art-world mystique.
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ArtTactic covers the art market as a set of decisions, incentives, and histories. The show is built around focused interviews. Adam Green tends to open with the market context first, then asks guests to explain how a specific corner of the industry actually works. That structure gives the conversations a practical rhythm. One episode follows Valentina Castellani through the long relationship between art and money, from the Middle Ages to today, shaped by artists, dealers, collectors, institutions, and patrons. Another looks at James Cope’s Dallas Invitational as galleries become more selective about costly fairs. The questions are pointed. The answers are given room. Art fair coverage is a recurring strength, with episodes on TEFAF Maastricht and New York, Art Basel Hong Kong, ArtSG in Singapore, and the economics of smaller, lower-risk formats. The show also follows policy and finance. Christian Zimmerman explains the artist’s resale right in the UK, including how royalties are collected, who receives them, and why the critique around top artists is more complicated than it first sounds. Drew Watson discusses the U.S. Art Market Report from Bank of America and Art Tactic, including the way auction analytics and proprietary art spending data were brought together. Museum strategy also enters the frame through Adam Levine’s account of the Toledo Museum of Art selectively guaranteeing works at auction. ArtTactic is not trying to make the art world sound glamorous. It is more interested in the machinery. Costs, guarantees, collector relationships, resale rights, regional confidence, fair design, museum leadership, and market data are treated as connected parts of the same ecosystem. The tone is informed and measured, with enough detail for professionals but enough explanation for serious observers. It suits listeners who want the business of art without the haze.
Made for: For art-market professionals, collectors, museum people, journalists, and serious observers who want substance over spectacle. It also suits listeners trying to understand how fairs, galleries, auction houses, institutions, and regional markets influence one another.
What sets it apart: ArtTactic stands out by staying close to the operational details: costs, reports, fair formats, guarantees, royalty systems, collector relationships, and regional market confidence. The interviews are specific enough for insiders while still giving context to listeners outside the trade.
The ArtTactic Podcast, the leading podcast on the art market, covers a wide range of topics from art investment to general topics about the global art market industry. Each episode features an in-depth interview with a key art market figure.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Adam Green turns art-market activity into clear conversations about pricing, institutional finance, regulation, collector behavior, and the business mechanics behind major fairs.
ArtTactic follows the money, rules, and institutions shaping the art market through Adam Green's focused interviews with people working inside it.
An auction loss can pay a museum; your curiosity about art-market money has found its rabbit hole.
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A brisk, grounded look at how art, money, and gallery judgment have long shaped one another.
ArtTactic's conversation with Valentina Castellani treats art history as inseparable from the movement of money, power, and taste. Castellani, an adjunct professor at NYU Steinhardt and author of Trading Beauty, Art Market Histories from the Altar to the Gallery, sets out a long…
A grounded 20-year look at artist resale royalties, payment data, and who benefits.
Art Tactic marks the 20th anniversary of the UK's artist's resale right with a clear look at how resale royalties became part of the art market.
ArtSG's sales and gallery mix make a measured case for patience in Singapore's developing art market.
Singapore's ArtSG gets a steady, market-aware treatment here, with attention on how the fair is trying to build momentum while much of the regional spotlight still falls on Hong Kong, mainland China, and Korea.
A clear look at how one museum is testing auction guarantees as a tool for collection growth and nonprofit revenue.
Toledo Museum of Art comes through here as a useful case study in how a nonprofit museum can treat an auction guarantee as more than a market device.
A clear-eyed forecast for two auction categories moving in very different directions.
Tim Schneider's 2026 art-market forecast draws a sensible line between recovery and another speculative surge. He compares two auction categories heading in different directions.
A measured read on solid Art Basel Miami sales, lighter crowds, and cooling collector FOMO.
Art Basel Miami comes through as a useful read on a market trying to prove its momentum can hold up against a busy fair calendar and a weaker appetite for FOMO.
Art historian Tamar Avishai interviews critics, curators, and writers about single paintings and ideas.
Creative practice, honestly worked through.
ArtTactic's conversation centers on David Hockney's 1966–67 painting The Beverly Hills Housewife and its subject, Betty Freeman.
Art and money stay glued together here.
James Cope discusses the origins and model of the Dallas Invitational, a low-cost hotel art fair in Dallas.
Will Korner discusses what makes TEFAF Maastricht and New York distinctive art fairs with unique atmospheres and diverse art offerings.
Drew Watson discusses the methodology and key findings of the first US Art Market Report, combining auction analytics and proprietary spending data.
Art Tactic host Adam Green interviews Art Basel Hong Kong director Angelle Siyang-Le about the state of the Chinese art market and previews the 2026 fair.
Christian Zimmermann of DACS explains how the UK artist’s resale right works, including the £1,000 threshold, the 4% starting rate, and the £12,500 cap on a sale.
Vivienne Chow says Singapore is becoming a "meeting point" for Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Gulf.
["Art Tactic's conversation with Adam Levine centers on the Toledo Museum of Art's selective use of auction guarantees to acquire works and sometimes earn revenue when it loses an auction.", "Host Adam Green speaks with Adam Levine, the museum's director and CEO, whose path through art history, the Met, Sotheby's, and Citigroup shapes his view of institutional collecting.", "Levine says Toledo has underwritten fewer than 10 guarantees, that the board approved the approach by comparing guarantee prices with private-market values, and that the museum does not budget guarantee revenue.", "The episode also covers Toledo's 37-acre campus, Edward Drummond Libbey's quality-first collecting mandate, a $55,000 drone show for Block Party, and a 2027 reinstallation after 40 years."]
ArtTactic host Adam Green asks Tim Schneider of The Gray Market to assess his 2025 predictions and discuss selected 2026 art-market forecasts.
Adam Green recaps Art Basel Miami with Sarah Douglas, discussing sales, lighter crowds, and shifting collector behavior.
Adam Green interviews ARTnews senior editor Maximilíano Durón about the packed art fair week in New York, discussing the consolidation of major fairs and the mixed reactions from attendees.
Charlotte Burns and Julia Halperin discuss their Artists Speak Report, a survey of over a thousand female artists on career challenges and institutional support.
Nora Lawrence, executive director of Storm King, discusses the museum's $53 million capital project and reopening, managing an outdoor sculpture park, and current trends in sculpture.
Adam Green recaps Frieze LA 2025 with Eileen Kinsella, discussing the impact of the LA fires and softening art market on the fair's atmosphere and attendance.