Tag: Galleries
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25. Galleries pricing art by the keystone rule and other fun ways to lose a business.
YES, we’ve returned to our corner booth at the ol’ art dealer bar and we have a new episode of the Art Dealer Show show for you. Even though the break went much longer than I expected, it did not go to waste — during that time I gave the show many new tweaks. All…
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24. Big Art Sales…Because Of and Despite Our Best Efforts – Guest: Jim Hartley, Pt. 2
If you listened to Part One of our conversation with San Francisco Art Exchange’s co-owner Jim Hartley, I’m sure you have been eagerly waiting this episode. It’s not going to be easy to top an art dealer origin story that involves coming under fire during the Iranian revolution but I think we’ve met the…
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22 Everything I Needed to Know About Art Dealing I Learned in Kindergarten – Guest Alex Salazar Pt 2.
It’s been a while but I’m back and comfortably settled in my usual corner booth at the ol’ art dealer bar. Having been away for a bit, there’s a lot bouncing around in my head. First up is something most of us can relate to: It’s a story about an art gallery which I sell…
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21 Are Millennials Not Buying Art, Or Just Not From You? – Guest Ruth-Ann Thorn Pt 1
To be a seasoned art dealer is to have taken some knocks over the years. There’s just no way around it. Stay in the business beyond the length of a college internship and you’re going to get some scrapes on your skin and soul. Slide back the cuffs and hems of the designer suits and…
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20 Selling Art Off of a Gym’s Wall? – Guest Alexander Salazar
Years ago I called Alex Salazar (this episode’s guest) to go over some increasingly complicated and continuously changing details pertaining to a show that we were working on together. One of Alex’s galleries was going to host one of our celebrity artists. And as is often the nature of working with celebs in the art…
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19 What in the Gallery Is Telling Them Not to Buy from You? – Guest Richard Perry, Part II
How about this for a show tease? An Andy Warhol painting changes the lives of a civil servant’s family forever, Dali’s pet ocelot gets out of control, and the chance encounter of a 19 year old and a famous eccentric millionaire made gallery history in Las Vegas. Now if that does not have you hooked for…
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15 The Rolling Stones Art Dealing Lesson & Guest Heidi Leigh Of AFA Gallery
As you know by Now, I love a good art dealer story. And our guest Heidi Leigh, the owner of AFA Gallery (Soho New York / Paris) has brought us some great ones. We are going follow the unlikely journey that a professional dancer in San Francisco took to become a SOHO gallerist. We’ll hear…
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13 Nim Vaswani – An Art Dealer By Any Other Name
Nim Vaswani An Art Dealer By Any Other Name If the art world has its equivalent to an old-time tent revival it would the “Road Show Company.” Since 1997, Nim Vaswani and his devoted crew of art dealers have criss-crossed the United States and beyond, putting on art shows with A-list artists inside galleries in B–level markets. Dali to…
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12 Art gallery owner Thad Markham Pt II: Why killing to join a gang is like selling art?
Are you ready for the first Art Dealer Show of the New Year? We are back with part II of my conversation with Thad Markham, the owner of Artifacts Gallery in Cambria, California and the designer/publisher of Out Of The Bowl. Last time Thad and I talked a lot about the path he took to…
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10 Tony Pernicone – An Odyssey in the Art Business.
I’ve alway been fond of the cautionary words from an unknown sage – “choose your profession before it chooses you.” These sobering words used to guid me as much as keep me up all night staring at the ceiling. This week those words of wisdom have once again found their way back in to my…
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