Galleries
How Galleries and Artists Split Sales
The split is the famous half of the deal; the deductions, discounts and payment timing are the half that decides what an artist actually banks.
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Coverage of the galleries that carry contemporary art: program direction, roster arrivals and departures, expansions, closures and how consignment and representation actually work. Includes blue-chip spaces and artist-run rooms. Useful for artists weighing an offer and for collectors reading a program's intentions.
Coverage of the galleries that carry contemporary art: program direction, roster arrivals and departures, expansions, closures and how consignment and representation actually work. Includes blue-chip spaces and artist-run rooms. Useful for artists weighing an offer and for collectors reading a program's intentions.
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How Small Galleries Afford Art Fair Booths
Applications months out, fees that quietly double, five days of selling: how the art fair economy is supposed to pay a small gallery back.
Galleries
What Gallery Assistants Do All Day
Front desk, condition reports, shipping quotes, install weeks and invoice chasing: the actual working day of a gallery assistant, minus the glamour.
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How Galleries Pick Artists for Solo Shows
A solo exhibition is the biggest bet a gallery places on one artist, and the arithmetic behind the offer is rarely what artists imagine.
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Why New York Galleries Keep Moving
From SoHo's lofts to Chelsea's garages to Tribeca's bank buildings, galleries have always chased cheap square footage and dragged the city's art map with them.
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How Small Galleries Survive New York Rent
Between the lease and the lumpy art market, small New York galleries stack half a dozen incomes on top of one address.
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How Gallery Representation Deals Get Made
Representation deals are handshake-first agreements that harden into a one-page contract built on exclusivity, term, territory and a fifty-fifty split.