What drives market performance?
An in-depth masterclass to unpack the data, trends, and behavioural forces shaping art as an investment.
What drives market performance?
Online Course | Certificate of Completion
This online course offers a groundbreaking exploration of the art market through the lens of data and financial analysis. Led by Michael Moses, co-founder of the Mei Moses Art Index and ArtistIP and Anders Petterson, CEO and Founder of ArtTactic, It explores how data can provide powerful insights into the forces shaping value, performance, and behaviour across the art market.
Across the sessions, participants will uncover how decades of repeat-sales data reveal shifting patterns of risk, return, and investor behaviour. The course examines what drives market performance, from pricing and demand to artwork characteristics, and challenges long-held assumptions with rigorous empirical evidence. By blending art and economics, it equips learners with a data-driven framework for understanding and evaluating art as an asset class.
Who it’s for
This course is ideal for art collectors, investors, advisors, and professionals seeking a deeper, evidence-based understanding of the art market. It’s equally valuable for students and researchers in finance, economics, and cultural management interested in how data is reshaping the perception of art as an investment.
What You’ll Get
🎥 Video Content: 3 hours of in-depth, expert-led instruction
📄 Downloadable Slides: Full presentation decks in PDF format
🎓 Certificate: Awarded after completing all video modules and quizzes
Your Instructor
Michael Moses is an art economist and co-founder of the Mei & Moses Art Index, one of the most recognized benchmarks for tracking financial performance in the art market. Alongside co-creator Jianping Mei, he pioneered the use of repeat-sales analysis to measure art returns with the same rigor applied to equities and real estate. A retired faculty member at NYU Stern School of Business, Moses, with Mei have published influential academic research on art as an investment and its role in portfolio diversification. Their work has brought transparency and empirical structure to an opaque market long driven by perception and subjective opinion. Through teaching, consulting, and public commentary, Moses continues to shape how collectors, investors, and institutions understand the economics of art. Mei and Moses have recently launched ArtistIP.com - a comprehensive source of tailored information on artist investment potential based on patented technology.