In this episode, Johann König speaks with James Crichton, founder of Arthur Analytics, a platform that brings together auction results, exhibition histories, primary sales data, bidder records, and museum donation activity.

Crichton came to the art world as an outsider: a former hedge fund manager who married into a collecting family and was struck by how analog and opaque the research process still was. Drawing on his Wall Street background, Crichton set out to build what he describes as the Bloomberg Terminal of the art market, combining and licensing data sources that had always existed in isolation.

The conversation covers how Arthur works in practice, its future direction—including a subscription model and AI-powered natural language search—and the potential impact on the art market of information once available only to insiders becoming accessible to everyone.

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