Dealers, auction houses cheer ruling on Calif.Resale Royalty Act – L.A. Times by Jori Finkel For more than 30 years, California gallery owners have complained about the state’s resale royalty law, which gives visual artists in certain cases a percentage of repeat sales of their artworks. But few disputes over royalties have ever reached court,… [Read more…]
It pleases me to see that for Frieze 2012 we will see Magnus Karlsson from Stockholm as usual in the main section of the fair. The “focus” section sees the inclusion of Elastic Gallery from Malmö. A more daring gallery and thereby perhaps also more challenging. As always it will be a fair to look… [Read more…]
In this age of 9 figure art sales, it surprises me that we still have occasional price resistance in our substantially less vaunted, but still respectable, sphere. Even our more astute clients will ask us, from time to time, if they’ll be able to get their money out of a purchase made from us. Of… [Read more…]
Gerald Stiebel, a highly respected fourth generation art dealer, wrote a blog the other day entitled, “The Spring Show–Another Art Fair”. His review of the fair was tepid although he noted several high lights. The ennui was evident just the same and his review would have cooled my ardor if I was thinking of attending… [Read more…]
I am afraid that I must agree that there are just too many art fairs but like movies and books nobody knows which will catch on and which will not. The Spring Show is put on by the Art and Antique Dealers League of America. They had done a show for a few years at… [Read more…]
Dear UK and International Colleagues Over the past 12 months we have been building www.art-antiques-design.com into what we hope you might consider to be an informative, and engaging, communication centre. Some of the objectives in this first year have been to raise awareness of various topics and important events, and to encourage dialogue between readers… [Read more…]
At first glance the images in Marlene Mocquet’s paintings appear whimsical and witty. There are all sorts of chimerical figures: it is a fantastical world of animated and anthropomorphic creatures. In what looks like Hieronymus Bosch meets Max Ernst, Ms. Moquet’s paintings reveal, upon closer inspection, an underlying sinister world. Look within and you see… [Read more…]
From the 10th to the 13th of May Palazzo della Permanente in Milano hosted the 6th edition of MINT, which, for the first time this year, was in conjunction with Collezioni d’arte. The evocative dressing of the space, with the reproduction of life-sized images of interiors of exclusive buildings produced by Masimo Listri, one of… [Read more…]
o- Is a business plan a must in a new or established Art and Antiques business, even if one cannot predict income?
Any family owned business run by the third generation, probably has had to evolve or have a format that is very predictable. I would be ignorant if I didn’t think luck and timing never hurt either. A fourth generation of family is lurking in my business; what must the possibilities of the decorative arts trade… [Read more…]
The San Francisco Fine Art Fair opened with a bang last night. Arguably more art lovers walked through the doors than the organisers had ever dreamed about. The proof being that the wine ran out very early in the evening (with the organisers sending out urgently for new supplies, which incidentally also ran out very… [Read more…]
The first edition of Frieze New York closed on Monday 7 May with many galleries reporting excellent sales across all levels of the market and expressing admiration for the overall conception of the new fair, its structure and environment. More than 180 galleries from 30 countries took part in the inaugural edition of Frieze New… [Read more…]
May 26, 2012 by Editors
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