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The Booming Art Market and the Trend of Hiding Valuable Art
TLDR The art market is booming with record-breaking sales, leading investors to hide valuable art pieces in storage as investments, causing some of the world's greatest treasures to disappear from public view. Free ports are used to store valuable artwork to delay taxation, allowing art owners to potentially avoid paying taxes until they decide to take the artwork out, while governments see them as a way to stimulate industrial activity.
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The art market has been booming with record-breaking sales, including a Nicholas Longcray painting that sold for $2.7 million.
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Investors are hiding valuable art pieces in storage as investments, causing some of the world's greatest treasures to disappear from public view.
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Amber manages high-end art for wealthy collectors, handling the physical aspects of their investments and storing valuable pieces in free ports as a way to keep them safe and potentially increase in value.
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Free ports are used in the art world to hold valuable artwork to delay taxation, allowing art owners to potentially avoid paying taxes until they decide to take the artwork out, while governments see them as a way to stimulate industrial activity in the area.
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Free ports initially allowed merchants to store goods without taxes until they were sold, but over time, they evolved into places where art collectors could keep their art in a state of tax suspension for as long as they wanted.
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Artwork is stored in a designated foreign trade zone warehouse in America under U.S. customs control, where everything inside, including wooden boxes resembling coffins, is artwork stored in darkness, making it tempting for art investors to store valuable pieces out of sight.
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Art investors store valuable art pieces in darkness in designated foreign trade zone warehouses, contributing to the trend of artworks being hidden away from public view.
