After spending decades as a commercial food photographer, Christina Peters of Newark, Delaware, is turning to another love of hers: fine art.
On the one hand, there are economic forces at work. On the other, there’s a deeper philosophical question about using art as a store of value or investment.
Since the blockbuster auction of Paul Allen’s collection, the art market might be losing some of the wind in its sails.
Online art sales doubled during the pandemic, but that didn’t necessarily make it easier to break into the art world — as a collector or as an artist.