
- 312 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the professional activities of the art business. Addressing this fast-moving industry, The Art Business: Art World, Art Market analyses the sector's institutions and structures, including galleries, auction houses and art fairs.
The rapid development of art finance and its deployment of art as an asset class are covered, and up to moment observations are delivered on the quickly evolving auction system that includes dramatic changes at the major auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's. This edition highlights growing crises in the market including the ever more unbearable costs of art fair attendance and the lack of a reliable system for establishing ownership and title of artworks. Ever more pressing ethical issues such as toxic museum donors, cultural heritage compliance, and problems of corrupt provenances are explored in detail. Enhanced by new data analytics on the US art market, the author also distils advice and guidance for working art professionals hoping to build their careers.
The result is an up-to-date picture of an art business suitable for students and practitioners across the creative sector.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Art Business, Art World, Art Market
- Chapter 1: Primary Market Galleries
- Chapter 2: Secondary Market Galleries
- Chapter 3: Auction Houses
- Chapter 4: Public Collections and Museums
- Chapter 5: Business Models: For-Profit, Nonprofit, Government-Supported, and Others
- Chapter 6: Antiques
- Chapter 7: Art Fairs
- Chapter 8: Curatorship
- Chapter 9: Venue Management
- Chapter 10: Marketing
- Chapter 11: Art History, Art Criticism, and the Art Press
- Chapter 12: Cultural Heritage Compliance
- Chapter 13: Taxation
- Chapter 14: Customs
- Chapter 15: Insurance
- Chapter 16: Transportation
- Chapter 17: Appraising
- Chapter 18: Conservation
- Chapter 19: Connoisseurship
- Chapter 20: Art Advising, Art Finance, NFTs
- Works Cited
- Index