This special issue series uniquely combines different perspectives and different methodological approaches on a variety of current issues in the global art market, contributed by a variety of international as well as Chinese scholars in different disciplines in the humanities applied to the study of the art market. It emerges a rich picture of topical scholarship encompassing digital technologies, gatekeeping and marketing, legislation and taxation, art value, connoisseurship and individual and institutional collecting, clusters, macroeconomic, geopolitical and social trends.