APRIL CHAT ANNOUNCED

[ARTspeak-easy! Chat For Fine Art]

Brant Kingman will host a chat 18 April 1998 @2:00 PM Central Time at ARTspeak Chat Room.  Anyone is welcomed. Brant's Site: http://www.kingman-art.com ARTspeak-easy! Chat http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/7747/brant.html

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Contemporary Art Market: an overview discussion of the commercial galleries, art fairs, and museums in the U.S. today with a focus on the changing status of art in America. Statistics and stories will illuminate this talk about art market trends, museum tendencies, and artists who are working in and outside of the gallery system.  

                                                           Topics of the discussion to include:

 

•                                                                    An overview of the fractionalized art market in the U.S.with focus on contemporary art galleries

• What it takes to get into the gallery system

• What art venues to stay away from

• Discounts, what to expect

• Hidden dangers faced by artists and collectors

• Reliable sources of information

• How to protect yourself

• The secondary art market: auction houses

• The role of art fairs

• What museums are looking for

• How shows are marketed to museums

 

Accompanying Brant, will be a panel consisting of a museum curator, a gallery director or two and perhaps the organizer of an art fair to provide balanced discusssion of the changing art market.

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