Chinese Art Party Dampened by Widespread Fraud, says Forbes

by Bill Davenport August 19, 2012

Forbes magazine’s Abigail R. Esman contributed an expose and analysis of the Chinese art-fraud machine last week. Apparently, if you peel away the corruption, bid rigging and self-dealing,  China isn’t the world biggest market for art after all. Esman says that China’s biggest auction house, Poly, is an arm of the People’s Liberation Army! Esman goes on to forecast gloom for the future: “a number of experts I spoke to feel that overall, the Chinese contemporary craze has died down, and will not be likely to rekindle.”

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Ben August 20, 2012 - 11:24

The market-driven stars of Chinese art may very well be on the way down, but there is still plenty of great contemporary Chinese art being made at some remove from the market machine, especially that promoted by scholar-critics such as Gao Minglu, Wu Hung and Jerome Silbergeld.

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