The Big Business Of Investing In Art

“With its yearly sales now reaching an estimated $10 billion in the United States alone, art has quite literally become big business. While money invested in the stock market’s S&P 500 Index — a conservative bet on Wall Street’s top 500 companies — has earned an annualized 11 percent return over the past decade, that same money sunk into the contemporary art market would have produced a whopping 29 percent return.”