Building on the literature on global cities and on the worlding of cities, the articles in this
special issue chart how cities outside Europe and North America try to reinvent and rescale …

Over the last two decades, we have seen a worldwide expansion of the concept and practice
of cultural diplomacy, along with the emergence of a multipolar world. This raises the …

This paper aims at understanding, from the inside, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
and the accompanying restrictive administrative measures on the art market. It is based on …

This chapter develops a notion of circuits of valuation, through which artists and artworks
from India are validated within the local and national contexts. Circuits of valuation denotes …

Biennials are one of the most important stagers of contemporary art practices serving as
spaces of reflexivity for artistic production, compressing a glocal sphere, offering a culturally …

What role do cities play in the emergence of new regional art markets? The increasing
interest towards art markets in the global South goes along with regional segmentations. It is …

The global art market has been under the spotlight of scholarly interests over recent
decades as the international art trade has considerably integrated into a world market …

This chapter explores how artists, dealers, collectors, and other art world actors construct,
imagine, and rely upon what I call circuits of valuation to validate artists and art works from …

In the modern world, soft power is a significant concept referring to nations' ability to
influence others without the need to use force or threats. Developed nations have made a …

This paper aims at understanding, from the inside, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
and the accompanying restrictive administrative measures on the art market. It is based on …