Will amazon start bulldozing all over the various online art dealers in the near future? Not too many details are known yet, but an email announcement for an informational amazon event was forwarded to Hyperallergic and it reads: “This summer Amazon is planning to launch… Read More
The art world has been discovered by criminals as an effective way for money laundering and other clandestine activities on an international level. Unfortunately, in most countries investigators, prosecutors, judges, and regulatory agencies are not equipped to accurately detect, investigate and prosecute this type of… Read More
Art Dealers and even the country’s culture minister oppose a 12% tax rise on the purchase of original works of art from 7% to 19% as proposed by the European Commission. The German federal association of galleries and dealers (Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien und Kunsthändler—BDGV) has,… Read More
A Space for Art is “a new start-up” based in London and Berlin trying to “build the world’s largest exhibition space.” Yeah, right! To achieve this ambitious goal the company wants “to grow the world’s largest community of exhibition spaces.” The official info on their… Read More
Don’t make people pay for music, says singer Amanda Palmer. Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar in the hat for the Eight-Foot Bride!), she examines the new relationship between artist and fan. In… Read More
Looks like the battle for the one and only platform to sell contemporary art is in full swing. The Gallerist has learned that “Artspace, a website launched in 2011 that facilitates online sales for more than 100 galleries and nonprofit organizations, has agreed to acquire… Read More
The online art database Artsy said it has raised $5.6 million in new investment and has added Internet entrepreneur Sky Dayton to its board of directors. Dayton, the chairman of Boingo Wireless Inc., joins Artsy founder and chief executive officer Carter Cleveland and Wendi Deng,… Read More
“If you were an artist, you didn’t get any money, no, because you were already invited to the exhibition and you got to produce your work, so we didn’t pay the artists.” (Caroline Christov-Bakargiev ) Art activists W.A.G.E. took this arrogant off-the-cuff admission made by… Read More
Moderator Maxwell L. Anderson, the Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art and an AFA trustee, led panelists in a discussion of the means by which art museums will support themselves in the coming years. Since the advent of the blockbuster exhibition in… Read More
In a new essay by Rachel Cohen called “Gold, Golden, Gilded, Glittering” that charts the connection between innovations in art and banking over the past seven centuries or so, the author reveals the origins of the modern art market and it’s connection to the history… Read More
