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Daniel GrantBoston Globe |
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...
Asked to think about what defines a museum, and most people will point to the institution’s collection or, in some cases, its location....
“The shorter the label, the more people will read it,” asserts museum consultant Judy Rand.
These days, the art at art museums can feel less important than “engagement,” a metric that’s arguably more measurable—from a marketing and...
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...
Noel Levine, a real estate investor and photography collector, was a long-time patron of the arts, providing photographs and millions of dollars to...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
The commission conversation often starts with, or gets around to, a client telling the chief executive officer of New York’s Petzel Gallery that...
“The fact that Christie’s was able to respond effectively so quickly to its security breach indicates that people there have thought about and...
The definition of both art and artist can have a very real impact in policy and philanthropy.
To combat what it called the “scourge” of art forgeries, the government of Morocco announced last month plans to draft new legislation that cracks...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“Buy low and sell high” has long been the businessperson’s creed. And “caveat emptor”—let the buyer beware—absolves those looking to...
The San Antonio Museum of Art recently announced the acquisition of two sizable collections of pre-Columbian objects (ceramic and stone figures and...
“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...
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...
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...
Figuring out what actually works takes a great deal of trial and error by struggling institutions.
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...