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Someone just spent $236,000,000 on a painting. Here’s why it matters for your wallet.
Late last year, a Klimt sold for the highest price ever paid for modern art at auction.
An outlier sure, but it wasn't a fluke. U.S. auction sales grew 23.1% in 2025. The $1-5mm segment even grew 40.8% YoY.
Meanwhile, Apollo’s chief economist Torsten Slock said to expect ‘zero in return in the S&P 500 over the coming decade.’
Each environment is unique, but after dot-com, post war and contemporary art grew about 24% annually for a decade. After 2008, about 11% for 12 years.
It’s also had near-zero correlation with the S&P 500 since ‘95.*
Now, Masterworks lets you invest in shares of artworks featuring legends like Banksy, Basquiat, and Picasso.
$1.3 billion invested across over 500 artworks.
28 sales to date.
Net annualized returns on sold works held 12 months+ like 14.6%, 17.6%, and 17.8%.
Shares can sell quickly, but my subscribers can skip the waitlist:
*Investing involves risk. Past performance is not indicative of future returns. See important Reg A disclosures at masterworks.com/cd.
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The partnership gets stronger. More data for everyone!
Initial Data Offering & Carbon Arc expand their partnership to fully integrate the Initial Data Offering API into their platform. You can now see every dataset that is announced on initialdataoffering.com within Carbon Arc. See data samples, find out more information, search, and easily access many of the vendors directly with Carbon Arc.
This partnership is a big win for Carbon Arc users and future clients, as you can now access more data, search for data across the Initial Data Offering platform/catalogue, and further refine your workflows. You can access the full catalogue within Carbon Arc today, and you can request API access to the Initial Data Offering platform as well!
Vendors announce on INITIALDATAOFFERING.COM every week. The top datasets get inundated with requests for demos. Now vendors can streamline their process to get their data up and available within Carbon Arc, and the Carbon Arc user base can now see all datasets natively within the platform.
Win Win for everyone!
Soon the full initialdataoffering.com API will be available as well in the Carbon Arc MCP.
If you are a data vendor, launching a new dataset, or haven’t announced datasets that you sell, submit your data on initialdataoffering.com today! There is no cost and no better way to get in front of the largest data buyer community. And now with the Carbon Arc partnership, you can streamline getting your data integrated into their platform!
