The art market is one of the areas of artistic life that cause the most controversy both among people directly involved in it and among those who observe what is happening from the outside. This book tells about the changes that have occurred with the Western art market since the early 2000s, about its structure and contradictions, the main theoretical approaches to its analysis. The art market here is understood not so much as a mechanism for buying and selling works of art, but as a space where economics, philosophy, art, sociology collide. This is a phenomenon, Giving reasons to think about the value of art , A look at the history of the relationship between the world of art and the world of money , Understand the reasons, where collectors feel the need to buy the works of artists , and artists to invent alternative ways of interacting with the market. The book is addressed to a wide range of readers interested in the history of art and the art market of the XX-XXI centuries, as well as specialists in cultural studies and art economics .