The Common Grounds of Sports and Art Auctions

By Piyush Sharma, Head of Auctions, Griffys
What do a Sotheby’s public sale and a football healthy have in not unusual? Anticipation, pleasure, disappointment — adrenaline runs high. As a huge soccer fan, my experience as a sports activities spectator has evolved with the proliferation of technology. technology is used to reinforce and beautify the bodily experience of looking sports via contextual, real-time statistics and observation. As an newbie artist, I’ve been an art lover for many years. I’ve also been interested in the economic facet of the artwork global, particularly, the stay auction experience. I idea: Why can’t we make public sale looking and bidding as engaging and exciting as seeing your favorite player score a recreation-winning aim?
I joined the enterprise after a more than 10-yr tenure at Microsoft, and my crew’s first fundamental initiative was to construct a product to host Griffys’s stay auctions. you can examine greater about how we built stay auction integration in a publish I wrote last yr. recently, i was able to percentage more about the philosophy at the back of the product on the Product pageant at the Museum of the shifting picture in Queens, the big apple:
