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Just last month, amidst the allure of being back at a real-life major art fair and seeing people buy art with their endless wealth, a few Frieze London exhibitors including Parisian gallery Mor Charpentier reportedly faced issues such as their art being held up in transport blockages. This was due to changing customs rules caused…
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Art fairs, which faced the economic brunt of the pandemic, seem hell-bent on returning full force for their physical editions in the second half of this year but make no mistake, traditional art fairs are in crisis. After all, corporate or PR spin can only work for so long. This seems to be the case…
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Over the past year or so, the art world has witnessed a range of board related leadership controversies from nefarious business connections to sociopolitical divisiveness at museums, nonprofits and more. Do they really matter? The answer lies in the ongoing global trust crisis. One of the most noteworthy art world scandals this year involves Leon…
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To say that we are living in an age of concentrated monopoly is putting it mildly but there have been repeated waves throughout history, cutting across manifold industries. Most famously, at the turn of the century, during the birth of corporate America, J.P. Morgan orchestrated a series of mergers culminating in megalith companies such as…
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There’s a reason we need to sit up and pay close attention to copyright infringement and any such related issues at this point in time. And it is not because Courtney Love was displeased about the similarities between Gen-Z pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo’s album cover visuals and the 1994 album artwork for Live Through This by Love’s band Hole.…