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Market forecast: extended period of cautious optimism ahead.

By Jancsurak, Joe
Publication: Art Business News
Date: Monday, January 1 2007

Will the art market mirror the economy?

Will sales of original works accelerate?

What trends will dominate in the coming year?

Art Business News posed these, and many other questions to 11 art market experts.

Read on to see who's saying what about the 2007 art market in this first part of a two-part feature.

There's enough good news out there among the leading economic indicators to leave art market experts feeling cautiously optimistic as 2007 gets underway.

The good news consists of an unemployment rate (about 4

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