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I have simply stopped buying anything that is affected by ARR.
Dear Sir, * I have simply stopped buying anything that is affected by ARR. * I ignore anything in auction catologues with AR in the description. * If the threshold is raised it would open up the market for my companybecause 90%+ of my sales are below £3000. * I have spoken to living artists […]
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Dealers – Do you have a Succession Plan? By Matthew F. Erskine, JD
I am delighted to be contributing to AAD for the first time. Succession planning too often is relegated only to owners of family controlled businesses, but there are many reasons why you, as a dealer might wish to plan for the succession of ownership and control of your artwork both during your lifetime and after […]
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The irrevocable bid format…
Auctioneers like Christie’s and Sotheby’s operate from a different perspective than any dealer or other auctioneer. A duopoly only includes two. Other auctioneers must try to copy the duopoly, if they can. Since the time they both in due course, adopted the buyer’s premium, they stacked the deck against both the buyer and seller. Now, their […]
Russian Roulette in the Contemporary Art Auction World…? By Howard Rehs
I guess you had to be there to actually believe it. The recent series of contemporary auction sales in NYC were nothing short of astonishing. Over the past week I received a number of calls from clients asking: how could this be? How could all that ‘stuff’ bring those prices? As a dealer specializing in […]
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Artist Resale Royalty – 9 Questions for the Senate….
Minister representing the Minister for the Arts in the Senate SENATE QUESTION Resale Royalty Scheme Question No. 2677 Senator Humphries asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Arts in the Senate on 24 January 2013: With reference to the artists resale royalty scheme and the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL): 1. What is the total […]
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Aligning the stars…By Clinton Howell
There are great many people in my business moaning about how contemporary, modern or even IKEA furniture has taken over as the preference for young people decorating their homes today. Is that really true? Yes, fads and fashions change and the boom of the 80’s and 90’s for English furniture has passed, but does that […]
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A walk through art history at Tate Britain, London….
It only opened last week and already the media have confirmed Tate Britain’s new permanent display ‘500 Years of British Art’, a great success for its director Penelope Curtis. It was her decision, on her appointment three years ago, (November 2009), to rearrange the galleries to display Tate’s exceptional collection of British paintings in […]
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May 25, 2013
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