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Appraisers often rely on private sales data from dealers, highlighting the crucial role art dealers play in the art market. 🎨🌍 Dive into the pivotal role of art dealers in shaping the transatlantic art market from the late 19th to early 20th centuries! In an often overlooked perspective of the art market's history this new publication, "Money in the Air: Art Dealers and the Making of a Transatlantic Market, 1880–1930," shows how these figures not only influenced art collections but also significantly impacted the foundations of major American art museums. #ArtHistory #ArtMarket #ArtDealers 

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#Legacy150: 'The Museum will not be Decolonised' conference schedule is now live https://lnkd.in/gyTEreAh Sumaya Kassim writes that “Museums are not neutral in their preservation of history. In fact, arguably, they are sites of forgetfulness and fantasy”. Her discussion was based on work she and colleagues did with Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, and it holds true of many museums throughout the UK. It is the “forgetfulness” of the objects’ lived history and the “fantasy” of these objects being out of time that is endemic in museum spaces. In this conference we discuss objects held in non-ethnographic museums and explore what they mean as representations of human experience, how we can accurately represent their lived experience using digital technologies and their weight as political and social signifiers in the contemporary world. The conference provides a space for interested parties to discuss the ways objects are presented and their histories represented.

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Preservation is key when it comes to museum collections. As collections grow, space and access need to be considered too. The proper museum storage helps ensure that our history doesn’t become a forgotten part of our past. Explore the Museum Industry Page for in-depth insights into properly preserving your cultural treasures. https://hubs.la/Q0251BvS0

Many archives and museum professionals are curious what took The Met so long. When we developed our accessioning program, provenance research, verification, and record augmentation became the norm. We also implemented context control throughout the entire collection management process. I often argue that it is this type of work which necessitates records management for cultural heritage organizations. #archives #museums #provenance #recordsmanagement #documentationcontrol

Nazi-Looted Pissarro to Remain in Museum, Freeman’s and Hindman Merge, Phillips 2023 Sales Drop, and More → https://lnkd.in/dMemJ3Gg Everything you need to know about the most important headlines from the world of art in the last seven days. #Art #FineArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtMarket #ArtNews

The article discusses the impact of the NFT (non-fungible token) boom on the art industry, highlighting major art #museums’ increasing acquisition of #NFT-based artworks. The boom gained significant attention after Beeple’s digital mosaic, “Everydays,” sold for $69 million in #2021. NFTs function as certificates of ownership, creating digital scarcity and value for easily replicable digital assets. The #Whitney Museum, having acquired its first NFT in 2018, now owns 30, showcasing the industry’s shift toward digital art. Museums like MoMA in New York have accepted NFT-based works, such as “Unsupervised” and “3FACE,” as part of efforts to enhance their digital offerings. Some curators remain skeptical, keeping their distance from NFTs, while others see the boom as bringing digital art into the public eye, providing opportunities for digital artists in the traditional #art #world. The article also notes the potential future evolution of the digital art market, with curators and gallerists navigating NFT marketplaces and artworks’ values determined by critical consensus rather than cryptocurrency health. Despite a decline in prices, auction houses like #Christie’s and Sotheby’s insist on the continued growth of #digitalart artwork sales. The art world is described as being in the “stone age of the virtual turn,” with some hoping the NFT moment marks the beginning rather than the end of a trend, similar to the dotcom bubble.

"#Museums are believed to house #art's best masterpieces thoughtfully composed by the most talented of people. That's why a Massachusetts gallery that specializes in bad art is gaining traction." If art is subjective, how do we know when it is bad? This is a question to ponder while watching this video. The Museum of Bad Art exhibits these pieces which would otherwise have been lost to landfills. Since we live in a world of opposites, if there is good art then bad art exists too. But, how do we know bad art when we see it? Are there universal criteria which dictate what makes bad art, and if so, what are they? Who has the final say in any of this? I can envision #MuseumEducation programs developed and implemented from any or all of these questions. What are your thoughts about all of this? Please share in the comments. https://lnkd.in/eShVYV4q