Welcome to Arts Radar, a monthly column by Marc Spiegler breaking down key developments in contemporary art and the wider worlds of design, music, cinema and television.
The contemporary art market was once unique within cultural industries because, unlike writers, musicians, actors, stylists and others, even the most prominent artists didn’t have full-time agents negotiating with their distributors, in this case art galleries. Over the last few years, however, agents have become ever-more…

