This suggests the possibility that some of the revolutionary air of the Arab Spring art may eventually penetrate the bubble of the Gulf art scene.

WSJ: Taking It to the Street | The Shift

Christie's won't name the seller, a Japanese conglomerate that bought the work at the height of the 1980s art bubble and must now, because of financial pressure, get rid of it.

FORBES: Picasso to Go

Christie's won't name the seller, a Japanese industrial conglomerate that bought the work at the height of the 1980s art bubble and must now, because of financial pressure, get rid of it.

FORBES: Picasso to Go

After a year of sales that boomed into the stratosphere, is the art market bubble about to burst?

FORBES: Dubai Or Not Dubai?

With a bit of luck, this country just beginning to sow its artistic oats may be percolating the next art-market bubble.

FORBES: Burma - An Unlikely Art Destination

Six months after the Van Gogh sold to Japanese paper merchant Ryoei Saito , the art market's bubble burst and prices plummeted.

FORBES: Fall Auction Forecast

The bubble burst, a lot of art was unloaded quickly and Japan has yet to emerge convincingly from the recession that followed.

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