The New Realities of the Global Art Market – Tariffs. Uncertainty and Market Shifts

How is the global art market changing amid tariffs, logistical tensions, and new buying habits? The recent season of fairs and auctions in New York offers revealing clues. In this talk, we’ll discuss the new strategies of buyers, who are increasingly selective and less willing to take risks, as well as the works and artist that are generating the most interest and the trends that are setting the market’s pulse. María Sancho-Arroyo will offer a firsthand look at what’s really moving the market today.

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Maria Sancho-Arroyo is an art market professional with over 30 years of international experience in the art world, first at museums (National Museum of Catalan Art in Barcelona and at the Louvre in Paris) then at Sotheby’s Auction House in London. During her time at Sotheby’s, she gained experience in all aspects of the auction world with a focus on business and client development. She has participated in numerous auctions and worked closely with all Sotheby’s European offices.

Maria lectures regularly on art market trends at the London and New York Sotheby’s Institute, Georgetown University, Tsinghua University (China), Centro Universitario (Mexico), Art fairs and other venues across the globe. She is a regular contributor to the “Giornale dell’Arte”, the Italian edition of the Art newspaper and has written for other privately published art magazines.

She is fluent in Spanish, Italian, French and English and is currently teaching an MA course on International Art Markets, and MA Navigating the Art World – Introduction to the Metaverse, and runs an online premier course entitled The Art of Buying and Selling at Auction, in both the English and Spanish versions. She also directs student on their final thesis projects.