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Daniel GrantBoston Globe |
To combat what it called the “scourge” of art forgeries, the government of Morocco announced last month plans to draft new legislation that cracks...
Businesses open and close all the time, and art galleries are no exception. Dealers retire, others close up shop when bankruptcy looms, some die with...
For all the talk about how the art world is an industry and how artists should think of themselves as being in business, it can be surprising when...
The wealthiest among us—in economist talk, ultra-high-net-worth individuals, or UHNWIs—have long hated the 40 percent estate tax. The 2017 Tax...
You may see Bob Timberlake, the 86-year-old artist in Lexington, North Carolina, only as a painter of rural imagery (house in the woods, wicker chair...
The pandemic did a number on museums in the U.S. and worldwide. When these institutions closed for varying lengths of time, they lost admissions and...
“Buy low and sell high” has long been the businessperson’s creed. And “caveat emptor”—let the buyer beware—absolves those looking to...
The San Antonio Museum of Art recently announced the acquisition of two sizable collections of pre-Columbian objects (ceramic and stone figures and...
“Someone needs money right away or inherited something he or she doesn’t like,” so that person—in possession of the sort of American or...
Once, art museums felt like a place to get away from all the chaos and confusion of everyday life—a place to enjoy beauty and consider eternal...
You are ready to buy an African mask, a Hindu statue, a Monet painting—anything characterized as cultural property—but you have questions that go...
Figuring out what actually works takes a great deal of trial and error by struggling institutions.
The art market has its ups and downs, but with high fixed costs including rent, salaries, utilities and insurance at big city galleries, a down month...
A work of art has been stolen from your home, and your first question likely has a lot to do with who might help you get it back. The police? The FBI?...
From a tax standpoint, it doesn’t matter if you donate a work of art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art or to the art gallery or museum of some...
People have been insuring art since the late nineteenth century, and in general, fine art insurance was relatively easy to get. That’s changing,...
“It has been a challenging time for art and design colleges,” Deborah Obalil, executive director of the Rhode Island-based Association of...