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The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, "Beaut
The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, "Beaut
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2013-11-12
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The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever", at Sotheby’s in London on September 15th 2008. All but two pieces sold, fetching more than £70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last victory. As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy, triggering the most severe financial crisis since the 1920s.
The world art market had. already been losing momentum for a while after rising be-wilderingly since 2003. At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare Mc Andrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm — double the figure five years earlier. Since then it may have come down to $50 billion. But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.
In the weeks and months that followed Mr. Hirst’s sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable. In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008. Within weeks the world’s two biggest auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.
The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989. This time experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far more volatile(动荡的). But Edward Dolman, Christie’s chief executive, says, "I’m pretty confident we’re at the bottom."
What makes this slump different from the last, he says, is that there are still buyers in the market, whereas in the early 1990s, when interest rates were high, there was no demand even though many collectors wanted to sell. Christie’s revenues in the first half of 2009 were still higher than in the first half of 2006. Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell. The three Ds — death, debt and divorce — still deliver works of art to the market. But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away, waiting for confidence to return.
By saying "spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable"(Lines 1-2, Para.3), the author suggests that______.
选项
A、art collection as a fashion had lost its appeal to a great extent
B、collectors were no longer actively involved in art-market auctions
C、people stopped every kind of spending and stayed away from galleries
D、works of art in general had gone out of fashion so they were not worth buying
答案
B
解析
文中第3段首句先陈述“任何形式的花费都已不再时髦”这一观点,然后用In the artworld that meant对这句话在艺术领域的含义做出解释,即收藏家远离了画廊和拍卖场。B)中纷were no longer actively involved in是对文中的stayed away from的同义转述,故为答案。A)“作为一种时尚的艺术收藏在很大程度上失去了吸引力”是对以上信息的过度推断,故排除;C)“人们停止各种消费,远离画廊”的说法过于绝对,故排除;D)“艺术品过时了,不值得买”是对unfashionable的错误理解,故排除。
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