Younger, wealthy shoppers in Asia are splashing their cash on art, according to a longtime collector and senior auction house executive.
Chen Yongnuo | China News Service | Getty ImagesAnd, while the size of the global art market fell 4% last year to around $65 billion, according to the Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report 2024, sales in China rose by 9% in 2023, overtaking the U.K. as the world's second-largest art market.
For Sotheby's, the rise in younger buyers is driven in part by an increase in online activity.
"The definition of digital art nowadays has been expanded from simply photography to video art to NFTs to AI-generated art," she told CNBC's "Art of Appreciation."
"With the younger generations becoming more and more prominent in the market ... digital artists ... will be the group of artists getting more attention," Siyang-Le added.
Persons:
Nicolas Chow, Gen X, we've, X, Chow, CNBC's, Z, Gen, Yoshitomo Nara, Chen Yongnuo, Clare McAndrew, Angelle, Mak2, Li Zhihua
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Locations:
Asia, Shanghai, millennials, Christie's Hong Kong, Sotheby's Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong, Art Basel Hong Kong