{"product_id":"top-tick-vanishing-valuations-in-the-contemporary-art-market-9781038352989","title":"Top Tick: Vanishing Valuations in the Contemporary Art Market","description":"The art world loves a spectacle. But at what cost?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Top Tick, art collector and former finance professional David Birkenshaw pulls back the velvet curtain on contemporary art's high-stakes circus, where branding often matters more than brushwork. Blending personal insight with auction data, he reveals a volatile marketplace in which only the top 1 percent of \"brand-name\" artists (think Warhol, Hirst, or Basquiat) hold their value, while the rest quietly vanish from gallery walls-and balance sheets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom multimillion-dollar bananas to crypto-funded publicity stunts, Top Tick explores how hype, wealth signaling, and fashion routinely outpace artistic merit. This isn't a takedown of contemporary art. Rather, it's a clear-eyed look at how it's traded, flaunted, and forgotten. A cautionary tale disguised as market analysis, Top Tick is essential reading for anyone who still believes \"investment-grade art\" is anything but an oxymoron.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e FriesenPress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781038352989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d","brand":"David Birkenshaw","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52085824028853,"sku":"9781038352989","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7ab53375-e2aa-438a-9ff9-4c85c9d17f23.jpg?v=1765295315","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/top-tick-vanishing-valuations-in-the-contemporary-art-market-9781038352989","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}