Georgina Adam is a journalist and author who has been writing about the interactions of art and finance since the 1980’s. From 2000 until 2008 she was the Art Market Editor of The Art Newspaper where she is currently the Editor-at-Large. She is a contributor to the Financial Times Life & Arts Section, and lectures at Sotheby’s and Christie’s institutes in London. Georgina initially studied Islamic Art at the Ecole du Louvre and also lived for five years in Japan. She is the author of three books about the art market – Big Bucks: The Explosion of the Art Market in the 21st Century (Lund Humphries, 2014), Dark Side of the Boom: The Excesses of the Art Market in the 21st Century (Lund Humphries, 2018); and most recently The Rise and Rise of The Private Museum (2021). She is membership chair of Cromwell Place in London, and a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and The International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA).
Interview with Georgina Adam recorded by Michael Dooney on 4. November 2021 in London, UK.
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Georgina Adam
The Art Newspaper: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/authors/georgina-adam
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgina-adam-15971b12a/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginacadam/
Books:
Big Bucks: The Explosion of the Art Market in the 21st Century
Dark Side of the Boom: The Excesses of the Art Market in the 21st Century
The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum




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