Magnus Resch

Magnus Resch, PhD, is an art market expert, serial entrepreneur, and bestselling author.

Recognized as “the world’s leading art market expert” (CNN), Magnus researches the intersection of art, technology, and business. He is the author of several books, including the bestsellers How to Collect Art and How to Become a Successful Artist. His research has been published in Science and Nature Comm. He is a Professor of Management at LSB and has taught at Columbia University, the University of St. Gallen. Since 2019 he teaches at Yale SOM. 

Magnus co-founded Larry’s List and launched the Magnus app, which works like Shazam for art. Leonardo DiCaprio is an investor and advisor to the company.

His career has been covered in a Harvard Business School case study and by the New York Times, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal. He studied at Harvard, the London School of Economics, and the University of St. Gallen. Magnus lives in New York City.

Can Magnus Resch’s A.I. App Crack the Art Market’s Transparency Problem? The Observer, July 14, 2026
What Keeps Women Artists Out of the Art World’s Top Echelon? Yale Insights, July 14, 2026
‘Shazam for art’, the app designed to bring culture to the masses, The Times, May 29, 2026
Is A Random Unknown Artist More Valuable Than Picasso? AI Thinks So., ARTnews, April 27, 2026
Can AI Value Art?, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 27, 2025
An Art Glut Is About to Tank the Market. Here’s Why Collectors Should Buy Anyway., Robb Report, January 26, 2025
Interview with art world expert Magnus Resch, Yale News, October 25, 2024
A beginner’s guide to buying art, The Spectator, July 18, 2024
Magnus Resch on how to invest in art and strategies how to collect art (with Julia Chatterley,) CNN, May 13, 2024
Course offers students a glimpse ‘behind the curtains’ of the art business, Yale News, October 23, 2023
Entrepreneurship in art course brings together business and arts students, Yale News, November 13, 2022
An App that Pushes Aside the Art World Curtain, the New York Times, April 8, 2016