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The Art of Shipping Art: How Works Are Moved to and from the Fairs

You may think of New York’s Kasmin Gallery as a place to look at art, but it is really a moving company, and what they are moving is art. Thousands...

05.12.2024 4

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Why the Guggenheim and Other Museums Are Hiring Brand Officers

Asked to think about what defines a museum, and most people will point to the institution’s collection or, in some cases, its location....

27.11.2024 8

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Who Decides What Makes a Museum Label Good?

“The shorter the label, the more people will read it,” asserts museum consultant Judy Rand.

22.10.2024 6

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Why So Many Museums Are Hiring Engagement Officers

These days, the art at art museums can feel less important than “engagement,” a metric that’s arguably more measurable—from a marketing and...

01.10.2024 4

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When the Question Is Consign or Sell, the Art May Hold the Answer

A few years ago, a seller walked into New York City art dealer Jill Newhouse’s gallery with an 18th-century Italian painting “that he had...

16.09.2024 10

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Donating Art to Foreign Institutions Is Less Complicated Than Most Collectors Realize

Noel Levine, a real estate investor and photography collector, was a long-time patron of the arts, providing photographs and millions of dollars to...

04.09.2024 6

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Do Resale Restrictions Set By Art Dealers Represent a Restraint On Trade?

What does it mean to own a work of art? One might think, a painting or a sculpture is mine, and I can do with it what I want. But not really. If the...

27.08.2024 5

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When Deaccessioned Art and Antiquities Have Nowhere to Go

“There are a lot of loudmouths out there, people saying ‘repatriate, repatriate—get all this looted stuff out of museums and give it all back to...

08.08.2024 5

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Contemporary Art Conservation Raises Thorny Issues Around Responsibility

Art is long, and life is short, according to an old Roman saying, but sometimes art doesn’t hold up its end of the bargain: the canvas warps, the...

31.07.2024 6

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Audrey Flack’s Last Words: A Tale of Success in a Sexist Art World

Late last month, artist Audrey Flack passed away at the age of 93. Her photorealist paintings expressed a vision of the life of a woman as represented...

17.07.2024 6

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How Serious Art Collectors Care for Their Collections

Art and antiques are not a one-time investment. Begin collecting art and you’ll quickly discover there are myriad other associated costs beyond the...

05.07.2024 10

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A Look at Museum Repatriation in 2024

Another day, another object from a museum’s permanent collection leaving that collection to return to from whence it was taken. In a recent case,...

02.07.2024 6

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What Art Buyers Need to Know About BOGO Deals

What’s the real price for a hot artist’s work these days? It may not actually be the gallery’s stated price but double that—the reason being...

07.06.2024 10

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Why (and How) Gallery and Museum Collections Management Went Digital

Before she opened her gallery in 1999, art dealer Debra Force worked at New York’s Hirschl & Adler, relying on paper file cards that listed...

29.05.2024 10

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The Ins and Outs of Commissioning a Work of Art

The commission conversation often starts with, or gets around to, a client telling the chief executive officer of New York’s Petzel Gallery that...

28.05.2024 7

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What Buyers and Sellers Need to Know About Art Auction Security in the Age of Cyberattacks

“The fact that Christie’s was able to respond effectively so quickly to its security breach indicates that people there have thought about and...

17.05.2024 10

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Why Defining Exactly Who Is and Isn’t an Artist Matters

The definition of both art and artist can have a very real impact in policy and philanthropy.

13.05.2024 60

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Art Law: How Nations Around the World Deal with Forgeries

To combat what it called the “scourge” of art forgeries, the government of Morocco announced last month plans to draft new legislation that cracks...

17.04.2024 5

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The Impact of Art Gallery Closures on Artists and Collectors

Businesses open and close all the time, and art galleries are no exception. Dealers retire, others close up shop when bankruptcy looms, some die with...

06.04.2024 30

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Why More Artists Are Forming Limited Liability Corporations

For all the talk about how the art world is an industry and how artists should think of themselves as being in business, it can be surprising when...

04.04.2024 10

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What Art Collectors Should Know About the Changing Lifetime Gift Tax Exemptions

The wealthiest among us—in economist talk, ultra-high-net-worth individuals, or UHNWIs—have long hated the 40 percent estate tax. The 2017 Tax...

07.03.2024 10

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How Artists’ Personal Brands Bring in Big Bucks

You may see Bob Timberlake, the 86-year-old artist in Lexington, North Carolina, only as a painter of rural imagery (house in the woods, wicker chair...

21.02.2024 8

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How Museums Are Diversifying to Attract New Audiences in the Post-Pandemic Era

The pandemic did a number on museums in the U.S. and worldwide. When these institutions closed for varying lengths of time, they lost admissions and...

20.02.2024 6

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When Is an Art Sale Simply Unfair and When Is It Fraud?

“Buy low and sell high” has long been the businessperson’s creed. And “caveat emptor”—let the buyer beware—absolves those looking to...

15.01.2024 5

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How Museums Acquire Antiquities Is Changing

The San Antonio Museum of Art recently announced the acquisition of two sizable collections of pre-Columbian objects (ceramic and stone figures and...

09.01.2024 10

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When Selling Art Makes More Sense Than Art Consignment

“Someone needs money right away or inherited something he or she doesn’t like,” so that person—in possession of the sort of American or...

02.01.2024 6

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The Year in Museums: Controversy, Repatriation and More

Once, art museums felt like a place to get away from all the chaos and confusion of everyday life—a place to enjoy beauty and consider eternal...

27.12.2023 8

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Art Theft Research: There’s an App for That

You are ready to buy an African mask, a Hindu statue, a Monet painting—anything characterized as cultural property—but you have questions that go...

11.12.2023 10

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U.S. Art Museums Still Searching for Solutions Amid Ongoing Financial Woes

Figuring out what actually works takes a great deal of trial and error by struggling institutions.

07.12.2023 30

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Rental Revenue Is Keeping Some Art Galleries in the Black

The art market has its ups and downs, but with high fixed costs including rent, salaries, utilities and insurance at big city galleries, a down month...

05.12.2023 20

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