How did human relationships and internal artmarket cultures moderate the effects of Covid-19?

The COVID-19 pandemic was not only a global health crisis; it also transformed the structure of many cultural and creative industries. The study, “Art Markets in Crisis: How Personal Connections and Market Subcultures Mediate the Effects of COVID-19,” a cultural sociology-based article, explains that the COVID-19 crisis has disrupted not only the financial turnover of the art market, but also its social structure. The authors believe that without face-to-face connections, human networks, and collective experience, the art market loses part of its natural function.