The Art Business

Virginia Damtsa- CULTIVATING ARTISTIC FUTURES & CATALYST FOR CONTEMPORARY VISIONARIES

With a wealth of experience spanning twenty-seven years, Virginia Damtsa, Director of VVA VirginiaVisualArts Ltd., stands as a seasoned and respected Art Dealer, Art Gallerist, Curator, Cultural Strategist and Artist Agent, bringing a unique and invaluable perspective to the art world. Damtsa's passion for the arts began at a young age when she helped her uncle open the Museum of Alekos K. Damtsa in The Art Centre Giorgio de Chirico at just sixteen years old. She went on to pursue History of Arts in Cambridge followed by two Master's degrees in Art Management at the University of the Arts and Contemporary Art at Sotheby's, where she honed her expertise in the field. 

Throughout her career, Damtsa has curated several exhibitions in her personal gallery space, as well as in other galleries, temporary spaces and art fairs. From 2003-2017, she co-owned with composer and writer Tot Taylor, Riflemaker London, a contemporary art gallery housed in a historic gunmaker's workshop off Regent Street. Built in 1712, it is one of the oldest public buildings in the West End of London. 

In addition to her work as a gallerist and curator, Damtsa has also lectured at Christie's for the Master's degree in Art, Law, and Business. Damtsa, who co- founded iconic gallery Riflemaker, counts Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran and Michael Seresin, cinematographer of Harry Potter, amongst her collectors. Annie Lennox has also been a long- standing enthusiast of the gallery?s representation of visionary powerful artists. Virginia Damtsa has also worked with musician Peter Gabriel on an art and music project for his new album, i/o. The project features renowned artists such as Annette Messager, Olafur Eliasson, Ai Weiwei, Tim Shaw, Nick Cave, David Spriggs, Cornelia Parker, and many others. Damtsa is currently planning to tour the project in various museums.

With her extensive experience and impressive network of industry connections, Virginia Damtsa continues to push boundaries and expand the reach of contemporary art. 

Curated Exhibitions

Damtsa curated several exhibitions with emerging and established artists such as Martin Kippenberger and Maria Papadimitriou, Judy Chicago, Takis, Yoko Ono, William S. Burroughs, Liliane Lijn, Penelope Slinger, Gavin Turk, Alice Anderson, Chris Levine, Christopher Bucklow, John Maeda, Julie Verhoeven, Ralph Ziman, Conrad Shawcross, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz and many others. 

She also worked with legendary musician Peter Gabriel and his team for an amazing collaboration of art and music bringing artists such as Ai Weiwei, Cornelia Parker, Judy Chicago, Nick Cave, Olafur Eliasson, Tomas Saraceno, Barthelemy Toguo, Annette Messager, Tim Spriggs, for an impressive immersive exhibition live and online. The album is now number one in the UK. 

Virginia Damtsa is a highly respected art dealer, curator, and gallerist with a deep understanding of the art market. In 2018, she founded VirginiaVisualArts, an art agency and gallery that represents more than fifty artists and manages their careers, introducing them to new opportunities, exhibitions, museums and collectors. 

As a strategist, mentor, advisor, consultant, and PR expert, Damtsa provides artists with the support they need to break into the art market and achieve their full potential. She is deeply committed to working closely with each artist, guiding them through the art world's complexities and assisting with sales and promotions. 

In addition to her work with VirginiaVisualArts, Damtsa runs her own art school, where she teaches professionals about art history and the art market. She also provides mentorship and guidance to artists and creatives and writes about art in major financial newspapers. Her expertise has also led to numerous appearances on TV as an Art World Expert, where she shares her insights on the contemporary art world. 

Damtsa curates over twenty exhibitions per year and uses several exhibition spaces in Fitzrovia, Marylebone, Mayfair, Notting Hill and other galleries to showcase her artists' works. She actively participates in art fairs and collaborates with other galleries to curate exhibitions and create connections and sales between artists, galleries, major collectors, and museums. With her extensive experience, vast network of connections, and in-depth knowledge of the arts and the art world, Virginia Damtsa continues to make a significant contribution to the contemporary art scene, empowering artists to achieve their full potential and bringing their works to new audiences. 

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All artists need help and support to build their careers and Virginia Damtsa is well equipped to provide that. Judy Chicago, Artist 

I worked with Virginia on the IO art & music project where she coordinated and helped to select artists for each of the different songs. It has been a pleasure to work with her. She made some great recommendations, was very thorough putting everything together and her deep knowledge of the art world was a real asset for our project. 

Peter Gabriel, Musician

Links:

www.virginiavisualarts.com

www.virginiadamtsa.com 

www.riflemaker.org

Instagram:virginia_damtsa

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Adam Blackwood trained as a professional actor at RADA and has over 25 years? experience working in film, theatre and television.  In 2002 he founded Private Drama Events, the UK?s leading multi-award-winning experiential and events agency, while also overseeing the corporate theatre space for several years at The Globe Theatre with fellow RADA alumni Mark Rylance.

Today, Adam is one of the UK?s top creative directors and is renowned for his expertise, knowledge and passion for the arts and brings a unique understanding of how to create and develop theatrical, immersive performances. 

Private Drama Events provides artists and shows for some of the world?s most recognised luxury brands, corporates, charities and private clients.  Past and present clients include Venice Simplon-Orient-Express and British Pullman, Belmond Trains, Save the Children Fund, One Young World, Veuve Clicquot, The Duke of Edinburgh?s International Award, Goldman Sachs, Prince?s Trust and numerous private clients.

In 2020 Private Drama Events was the Gold Winner for Best Conference at The Evcom London Live Awards for its work on the One Young World London Summit.

Links:

www.privatedramaevents.com   @privatedramaevents   @adamblackwood01

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Sharon Obuobi is a talented entrepreneur with experience in art, business and technology. She currently conducts research in data science and innovation for fintech and insurtech use cases. Her business Alt/Finance develops solutions which optimise market intelligence to improve the experience of consumers in these industries. Alt/Finance was launched at the TechCrunch Disrupt stage in San Francisco in September, and was selected for the Techstars New York accelerator.

In 2022, she was recently featured as a top 10 founder by the Telegraph x Natwest's initiative recognizing 100 UK female founders. She was also in Apollo Magazine's 2021 global list of 40 under 40 art tech innovators. With art business experience in New York, Lagos, and Toronto, Sharon established the Modern & Contemporary African Art business at Sotheby's. During her role, the department sold over 5 million GBP of art, and broke 25 world records for sale prices.

Sharon graduated with a B'Comm from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. She has been featured on CNN, the Financial Times, Virgin Magazine, Tush Magazine Nigeria, NKA Journal, IRAAA Journal, Konbini, iPaper, and more.

Links:

https://www.altfndata.com/ 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonobuobi/ 

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KEYWORDS: JC GALLERY; ALTHORP HOUSE, NORTHANTS, UK; HERITAGE INDUSTRY; HOUSE MANAGER; AMERICAN MODERNISM; MODERNIST ART; GALLERY CURATION; CURATOR; GALLERIST; SPENCER FAMILY

Driven by a passion and speciality in American Modernism, James Ward opened JC Gallery in the heart of London?s Mayfair in 2021. JC Gallery is the first European gallery to specialise in this exceptional era of early 20th century art, focusing on exhibiting works by renowned artists including Arthur Dove, Stuart Davis, Thomas Hart Benton, John Marin, Joseph Stella, Georgia O?Keeffe and Edward Hopper.

Prior to founding JC Gallery, James Ward spent 15 years working for Earl Spencer at Althorp House, Northamptonshire, surrounded by Europe?s largest private art collection which includes some of the most exquisite and extensive Old Masters and 17th century works.

James Ward also studied art at King Alfred?s University in Winchester and later at Sotheby?s Institute of Art.

LINKS:

https://jc-gallery.com/ 

https://althorpestate.com/ 

@jcgallery.mayfair

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Having worked in every area of art handling & shipping since 1993, David has a wide knowledge and understanding of how his specialism interfaces with the wider art market and the related rules that govern it.  His experience working within the industry has made him well known for providing solutions to the most complex art transport and installation challenges for some of the world?s most prestigious institutions & galleries, renowned artists and collectors.

Link: https://www.crownfineart.com/ 

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Laura Peh is the founder and creative director of Cinnamon Art Publishing - an independent publishing house specialising in illustrated non-fiction books for children. She is also an accomplished concert harpist and keen contemporary art collector, focusing on socially-engaged practices from artists of Southeast Asian, Latin American and Middle Eastern heritage. As a publisher and collector, she has spoken on panels and given talks with AWITA, Art&Summit (Singapore), National University of Singapore, Courtauld Institute of Art (London) and Sotheby's Institute of Art (London). She is a laureate of Prestige Singapore's 40 Under 40 2023, and has been featured in media articles including Channel News Asia, The Straits Times, Singapore Global Network, Lianhe Zaobao, Prestige Singapore and Tatler Asia. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Singapore, Laura moved to Paris at the age of 15 to study at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and graduated with a Bachelor's degree from the Royal College of Music in London. After shifting her focus to art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art and obtaining a Masters in Art Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, Laura spent two years working in the art industry in Hong Kong before moving back to Singapore in April 2020 to realise her passion project, Cinnamon Art Publishing.

Favourite Artist: Citra Sasmita

Links: www.laurapeh.com and www.cinnamonartstories.com

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Marine Tanguy launched Certified B Corporation, MTArt Agency in 2015, following a career in visual arts in London and LA. MTArt agency is worth £35 million and is the art sector?s leading talent agency representing some of the most talented, forward-thinking artists in the world. The agency looks to support, promote and enable artists to work with the broadest canvas possible, from working with brands to public art and fine art institutions. The agency works with global organisations and cities, nurturing an international community of art-lovers and collectors as well as diverse brands ranging from Apple to Dior and even the World Cup. Marine is an influencer and passionate advocate for the role of the artist in guiding the public through a world flooded with visual noise and the agency seeks to ensure artists are rightly recognised as the spokespeople for a visual age.  As a business person, Marine was awarded Forbes 2018 30 under 30 Europe: Art & Culture, UK entrepreneur of the year for the 2019 NatWest Awards and Woman of the Year 2021 by the magazine WOTC. She is a writer and keynote speaker on contemporary art and art investment. Her talks include two TEDx Talks on how to transform cities with art and how social media visuals affect our minds and she has recently published her first book ?The Visual Detox ? How to Consume Media Without Letting it Consume You? with Penguin.

Links:

https://mtart.agency/ 

https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/298745/marine-tanguy

https://www.ted.com/talks/marine_tanguy_how_artists_can_transform_our_cities_jan_2017

https://www.ted.com/talks/marine_tanguy_how_social_media_visuals_affect_our_mind 

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Anindo is an alumnus of the MA Art Business programme at Sotheby's Institute of Art London and a specialist on technology and Indian art and its markets.  The podcast starts with a 15-minute history of Indian art and its markets.  We then discuss Anindo's experiences of the first edition of the Mumbai Art Fair and his opinions on the potential for exponential growth of the Indian economy and its art market.  

Links: https://news.artnet.com/market/art-mumbai-2023-opening-2396128

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Paola Lucente is the Director and Curator of Procreate Project, the first UK social enterprise which supports the development of contemporary artists who are also mothers working with different types of art. She holds a BA in Visual art and an MA in Art Management Psychology and has previously worked at the Guggenheim Museum, Marian Goodman Gallery, Scope and Volta art fairs in New York City. Paola was Gallery Manager at the Zabludowicz Collection from 2011 to 2016, where she was responsible for the daily activities of the London gallery, managing events, gallery assistants and the production of art editions.  She was also Head of Exhibitions at Spazio Murat, the very first contemporary art space in Bari, Italy. 

Links:

https://www.motherhousestudios.com/

https://www.procreateproject.com/

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Claire is an accredited conservator specialising in preventive conservation for historic house and museum collections.  She has over twenty years experience of all aspects of preventive conservation/collections care including: condition audits and risk assessments; collection care plans; conservation housekeeping; environmental monitoring and control; insect pest management; safe display and storage methods; and reducing the risks from hospitality, filming and events.

https://www.spencerandfry.co.uk/

Joanna is an experienced director and professionally accredited conservator with a demonstrable history providing modern & contemporary art conservation services to the international commercial art sector and museums. She is skilled in conservation issues, project management, visual arts and lecturing.

https://www.joannashepard.com/ 

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Church of Sucevi?a Monastery , burial chamber. Removal of adherent surface deposits by physical chemical means (by cotton swab). September 2006, Romania , Suceava,

CERECS ART S.R.L.

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Mithra Stevens is an art historian specialising in sustainable logistics within the fine art sector. She recently completed her MA in Art Logistics at Sotheby?s Institute whilst working for ROKBOX and has previous experience working as an exhibition manager and picture framer.  Mithra recently won the Sotheby's Institute of Art Enterprise Studio Gavel Competition.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mithra-stevens-657346143/?originalSubdomain=uk

https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.madeinbed.co.uk%2Finterviews%2Fmithra-stevens-in-conversation-with-artist-jack-coulter&e=AT2VNRegwKBcvkqn2dbHtPWXOOppoi900fZvGL5XWxV60985oTiPcJ8jfNlIBDRABKo9R6LhwrhD30vl6Htl9ReMiP4W0oSW5rxgVA

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Steve Sabella is an established artist and author. Born in Jerusalem and based in Berlin since 2010, Sabella's work is a powerful expression of his life and experiences. Widely recognized for his bold artwork, he is able to explore themes of identity and displacement, exile, the effects of colonization, liberation and the human condition in a unique and powerful way celebrating the resilience of the human spirit. Employing the medium of both analogue and digital photography, Sabella has developed a distinct style of art that has earned him numerous awards and accolades. His thought-provoking artwork has been featured in numerous galleries, museums, and publications worldwide. 

Links:

website

www.stevesabella.space

The Artist?s Curse 

http://theartistscurse.art

Biography 

https://stevesabella.space/pages/about

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Claire Mander is the Director and Curator of theCoLAB, a London based curatorial practice which has operated beyond the white cube since 2011.   She conceives and creates opportunities for women sculptors to use unusual sites as experimental laboratories to realise their most ambitious, far-flung and life-affirming work. She recently transformed a neglected half-acre roof terrace on the roof of Temple tube station into the Artist?s Garden a platform for women artists to make large-scale site responsive interventions. She has curated over 40 mainly site-specific interventions including Sculpture Shock residency/commissioning programme for interventions into subterranean, ambulatory and historic sites in London, Headlands to Headspace landscape art commissions across Morecambe Bay and Sculpture showcasing the work of seventeen Nordic sculptors across three sites in London.  

theCoLAB runs Body and Place drawing residencies in the landscape and is working on the Morecambe Bay Triennial, a residency based series of site responsive commissions across 100 miles of coast in the north west of England.

Claire Mander sits on Westminster?s City of Sculpture panel and is a Board Member of the National Festival of Making and of the artist-led 303 Projects in Lowestoft, Suffolk. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Royal British Society of Sculptors and a Trustee and Chair of the Steering Committee of UK Friends of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington DC). She is a member of AICA and has published two books and numerous catalogues and has given/chaired many talks about women artists and site-specific commissions including at RCA, The National Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery and about Skulpturlandscap Nordland.

She holds an MA (Distinction) from the Courtauld Institute of Art and was a City solicitor.

@thecolab.art [instagram]

https://www.thecolab.art/temple 

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Dee Haughney is Head of Learning at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-sea. She was born in Ireland, studied Photography at TU Dublin, Curatorial Practice at Falmouth University and Asian Art at Sotheby?s Institute of Art.  She worked with the Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall and The Photographers? Gallery, London before joining October Gallery in 2012. As Curator of October Gallery for over eight years, she managed exhibitions, international art fairs and major installations working closely with artists such as El Anatsui, James Barnor and Sokari Douglas Camp. In 2018, she undertook a research trip, cycling the length of Africa from Cairo to Cape Town. Since 2022 she has been Head of Learning at De La Warr Pavilion, one of the largest contemporary arts centres in the southeast. Outside of this she works as an Independent Curator working with artists from Ireland and around the world.

Links:

https://www.deehaughney.com/aboutdeehaughney

https://www.dlwp.com/ 

https://www.madeinbed.co.uk/interviews/anindya-sen-in-conversation-with-curator-of-october-gallery-dee-haughney

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I got to know Jack Davis and his art whilst visiting the renowned seaside artists' colony of St Ives, Cornwall, with my students.  My students were involved in  curating small group exhibitions with Livingstone St Ives Gallery and Jack's tremendous seascapes were selected by several of the groups.

Jack graduated from Falmouth University in 2012 and has been painting professionally ever since. He lives and works near St. Just, painting the rugged West Penwith landscape between Sennen Cove and St. Ives. Jack recently became a member of the St. Ives Society of Artists, has been a tutor at the renowned Newlyn School of Art since 2016, and the Aesthetica Art Prize named him as one of the Future Now 100 contemporary artists 'The West Penwith peninsula is at the end of the line, remote, rugged, and embodied with an ancient primal majesty. Living in such an impressionable environment evokes plenty of inspiration on a daily basis: I am drawn to the raw power of the natural environment and the sublime effect of light. I harness the impulsive energy of my subject matter and create order out of chaos like the landscape I inhabit.' (Jack Davis)

Jack has a solo show, 'Cornish Light' at Livingstone St Ives from 7-21 April, 2023

Links:

https://www.jackdavisfineart.com/

https://livingstonestives.co.uk/artist/jack-davis/

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SEBASTIAN DUTHY

CEO

Art Market Research   

Sebastian brings a wide-ranging expertise into his role as AMR CEO. He has transformed the pioneering art market price trend provider, established by his father Robin Duthy in 1978, into a sharped eye art market observer by formulating new analytical tools viewing the art market in a larger context of culture and economy. Complemented by a successful career in producing and editing broadcast documentaries such as the BBC's 'Civilisation' and in-depth knowledge of art history, Sebastian combines rigorous statistical detail with a captivating narrative to examine the evolving art and luxury auction markets. Sebastian regularly comments on the art market in leading art and financial publications.

Dr. VERONIKA LUKASOVA

Senior Analyst & Researcher

Art Market Research   

Veronika employs multiple layers of inquiry to bring an understanding to historical and contemporary shifts in the art market and visual culture.  As an editorial photographer in the US for over 10 years, Veronika produced stories for publications such as the New York Times and Washington Post, before her interest in art led to further academic study. As a freelance writer and visiting lecturer in art market and photography, Veronika provides critical examination of emerging technologies in the contemporary arts.

ART MARKET RESEARCH (AMR)

Art Market Research has been an independent provider of global intelligence for Fine art, Antiques and Collectible markets since 1976.  Established in London with a goal to bring transparency to price trends in the burgeoning art market, AMR pioneered the concept of the fair market value as a benchmark for valuing Art, Antiques and Collectibles. As the longest running authority on the global art market in the world, AMR has forged working relationships with tax authorities (HMRC), financial publications (FT), insurers (Hiscox) and others.

AMR?s statistical analysis and insights are frequently featured in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Art Newspaper and others. AMR?s subscription-based online platform provides access to a range of innovative tools and services and AMR?s latest research.  AMR does not derive profits from selling or dealing with Art, Antiques or Collectibles. 

Links:

www.artmartkeresearch.com

https://veronikalukasova.photoshelter.com/

https://cargocollective.com/kamurai/N-U-C-L-E-A-R

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Rachel Cole is the principal at her New York-based eponymous art advisory firm, which specializes in the acquisition, curation, and placement of contemporary art. She was the first art advisor to join the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022, and was recognized for placing historically underrepresented and undervalued minority artists (including women, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+) into prominent private and public collections worldwide. Rachel is also the founder/ceo of romulus.art: a visionary, comprehensive platform that provides educational resources, a social forum, and logistical support for both aspiring and seasoned collectors.

Links: 

[email protected]  www.rachelcoleartadvisory.com

@rachelcoleartadvisor

romulus.art

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Mikaela Milicuri is a Cypriot-born London-based art advisor who specialises in art sales, collection management and investment portfolio development. Having lived in five countries and eight cities, 'she navigates the international art market with confidence and combines her extensive art knowledge and business skills with meaningful industry connections to help her clients build collections which suit their needs and contribute to their wealth.'

Specialising in Contemporary Art and with an emphasis on Painting, Sculpture, Mixed Media, and New Media Art, she has placed several works of art by emerging and established artists in private and corporate collections. She has also pursued collection management projects in various other sectors, from Impressionism to Surrealism to NFTs. An art collector herself, Mikaela?s advisory services are informed by constant research and a 7-year-long experience in the art world. Prior to founding MAA, Mikaela gained museum experience at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, art fair experience at the 55th edition of the Venice Biennale, and a 5-year experience as a commercial art gallery director and client liaison.

Mikaela is expected to complete her PhD in the summer of 2023. She is also an Associate Fellow of the HE Academy and holds lectureship positions at UAL LCC and Royal Holloway UoL. She is also a guest lecturer at Sotheby?s Institute of Art in their MA in Art Business. Her educational and tutoring capacities allow her to implement a systematic and structured experience for her clients that fosters their collecting aptitude and solidifies their growth as collectors. With an ongoing mission to empower art collectors, she is currently writing her first book: a collectors' guide through the various stages of acquiring, owning, and parting ways with art.

Links:

https://www.milicuri.com/

https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/mikaella-milikouri 

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Aryana Khan leads Frieze?s recently launched membership programme, Frieze 91. She currently oversees membership in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Seoul (due to launch in Spring 2023). Aryana has worked in the art market for just under a decade. Prior to Frieze she spent 6 years working at Sotheby?s in London, where she specialised in modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art, managing client relations and business development projects in the region. Her research interests have focused on building scalable and sustainable growth models of new or developing art markets.

Born in London, raised in Kuwait with roots in Iran, Pakistan and the US, Aryana graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Human Biology and Art History, and an M.A. in Art Business from Sotheby?s Institute of Art in London.

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Milena Berman is originally from San Francisco, California. After studying art history as an undergraduate, she worked at documenta13 in Kassel, Germany in press relations, and then returned home to San Francisco to work for a private photography collection, Pier24. She also worked in commercial and non-profit art galleries before moving to Burgundy in 2013 to work in cultural tourism. For seven years she organized and led travel programs all over the world for donors and boards of trustees of the world?s top cultural institutions such as the Whitney, LACMA, the Serpentine, the Guggenheim and more . Being based in Beaune, Milena was naturally immersed in wine and gastronomy, and found a home in its dynamic wine community. During the pandemic, she went back to study Art Business at Sotheby?s Institute of Art while also working for one of the most revered wineries in Burgundy, Domaine Dujac. Today she works in the realms of wine and culture and is most interested in their intersections, fostering connections between people and places through meaningful experiences. Her company, Hautes Côtes (run together with her partner, wine specialist Loïc Lamy) organizes immersive art and wine programs (both travel and event-based) for professionals in the creative and wine industries as well as for private groups, collectors, cultural institutions, and non-profit organizations. 

Links: https://www.hautescotes.com/en 

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In this episode we discuss curating art exhibitions in the historical art colony of St Ives, Cornwall with guests Alicia Livingstone and Catie Close of Livingstone St Ives Gallery and special guests Sotheby's Institute of Art MA Art Business students: Jeremy Rosen; Yujie He; Quan (Derrick) Wan; Beatrice Gallello and Maria Whitby.  

Links:

https://livingstonestives.co.uk/sothebys-ma-workshops/ 

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Anindo Sen is a Sotheby?s Institute of Art London 2020 alumnus, who after successful corporate leadership roles in some of India?s leading corporate enterprises like ITC and Star TV, chose to devote himself to art and culture. Currently an independent arts writer, researcher and consultant, he discusses the MA experience at the institute as well as how the art world can benefit from being more open to technologies like blockchain and NFTs.

Useful links: 

1) https://jingculturecrypto.com/author/anindya-sen/

2) https://hyperallergic.com/author/anindya-sen/

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Dr. Federica Carlotto is a social anthropologist specialising in luxury, fashion and other cultural & creative industries. By applying the lens of human science to markets, trends and brands, Federica delves into the thick layers of meaning behind consumer behaviour, producing strategic business intelligence. Her cultural insights also look at connecting business with communities and the society at large, for responsible value creation.

Federica is Programme Director of the MA in Luxury Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art London.

More about Federica and her work: www.saltculturalintelligence.com

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Kristy M Chan (b.1997, Hong Kong) lives and works between London and Hong Kong. She received her BFA from Slade School of Fine Art in 2019 and her MA from Sotheby?s Institute of Art in 2020. Recent solo exhibitions include Binge, The Artist Room in collaboration with Simon Lee Gallery, London (2022), Strong Cookie, Prior Art Space, Berlin (2022) and Totally Not, The Artist Room, London, (2021?2).

Selected recent group exhibitions include New Romantics, Lee Eugean Gallery, Seoul (2022); The Sky Above the Roof, Tabula Rasa, Beijing (2022); Femme-Ate, Soho Revue, London (2021); Space Shuffler, HART HAUS, Hong Kong (2021); Big Soft Illusion, Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig (2020); and Haam4 Seoi2 Goeng1, Hong Kong Visual Art Centre, Hong Kong (2019).

Residencies include Del Arco Residency, Berlin (2022); PILOTENKUECHE, Leipzig (2020) and AiR Frosterus, Finland (2019). In Autumn 2022, Chan will receive a residency at The Cabin, Los Angeles.

Chan?s work resides in prominent institutional collections such as Yan Lan Art Foundation, Beijing; and X Museum, Beijing.

Links to work (2 most recent group shows):

New Romantics, Seoul  (Image Courtesy of Philips and The Artist Room): https://www.phillips.com/store/new-romantics 

The Sky Above the Roof, Beijing  (Image Courtesy of Tabula Rasa Gallery): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XNaDf749jGAtWxI1hPYglehy0vheknEc?usp=sharing 

Recent interview: https://ocula.com/advisory/perspectives/in-the-studio-with-kristy-m-chan/ 

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Editor-In-Chief: Rhiannon Roberts

Prior to studying Contemporary Art at Sotheby?s Institute of Art in London, Rhiannon completed her undergraduate degree in Art History at Belmont University. During her time there, she was the recipient of the 2021 Written Research in the Visual Arts Award for her visual essay titled ?The Depiction of Global Consumerism and Overconsumption in Art,? a featured keynote speaker at the 2021 Belmont University Research Symposium where she presented an original research project for the Asian Studies session.

Features Co-Editor: Camille Moreno

Camille is an artist and writer. She received her BA in Fine and Studio Arts from Hampshire College in the US and graduated with a solo show called Ex Omnia Ovum which explored the literary discourse of eggs through a series of plaster sculptures. She holds a Diplom in Sculpture from the Kunsthochschule Weißensee in Berlin, Germany, and exhibited a series of cast plaster sculptures in the degree show Ausgerechnet Freitag der Dreizehnte. Her dissertation explored public art and urban agriculture.

In Berlin, she wrote for the art section of the ex-pat magazine Exberliner and founded a non-profit organisation that provided art scene news and information in English to the growing ex-pat community. After leaving Berlin, she assisted in the historic restoration of the Domaine du Layet chapel and villa in Le Lavandou, France, where she specialised in lime and decorative plaster wall finishes. After most recently receiving a Diploma in Curating from Goldsmiths University in London Camille is furthering her education by currently pursuing an MA in Art Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art.

En Plein Air Editor: Alison Lo

Born in metropolitan Hong Kong, Alison is a globe-trotter and has lived in various international cities including Berlin and London. Prior to pursuing an MA in Contemporary Art at Sotheby?s Institute of Art London, she received her Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and Master of Laws degrees from the University of Hong Kong. With over ten years of policy advisory and project management experience in the public sector, including an overseas station in Central and Eastern Europe, she has collaborated with art institutions and individual artists, international organisations, government ministries, private enterprises, academia and the media on projects spanning from art exhibitions, cultural performances, business matching, infrastructural development, and urban regeneration.

Agents of Change, Co-Editor: Reese Vandeven

Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, USA, Reese is new to London as of autumn last year. She received a BS in Global Arts, Planning, Design, and Construction from Texas A&M University before starting her MA in Art Logistics at Sotheby's Institute of Art.

Website: https://www.madeinbed.co.uk/ 

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Neha Jaiswal is Founder of The Arts Family, London, on the TAF jury and a member of the South Asia Acquisitions Committee at Tate, London.

Claire McCaslin-Brown is Director McCaslin Art Advisory,  London, and Marketing Director/Curator at The Arts Family, London (TAF).

TAF holds an art prize for emerging artists from South Asia.  

www.theartsfamily.com 

Please download the 2021 PDF Catalogue, from the website to read about all the shortlisted candidates and see images of their works.

Next year's winners will be announced in January 2023.

Image:

Artist: Madhu Das

Prize winner, TAF Emerging Artist Award, 2021  (2nd place).

Title: From the series, " Landscape of Confronted Abstraction", 2013 

Photo print on acid-free hahnemuhle Archival paper, part of a series of 10 site-specific performance works.

Exhibition starting 17 October, 58 Maddox Street, London. W1S 1AY.

Madhu Das, born 1987, Karnataka, India, living and working in Mumbai.

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In this follow-up to the July 7 podcast, we discuss auction houses, dealers, artists and artists' estates.  We also flag the forthcoming de Pury auction WOMEN - Art In Times of Chaos as an exciting new auction model where emerging artists and their galleries receive 100% of the hammer price.

Useful links:

http://www.thehenrylydiatepartnership.com/ 

[email protected] 

https://www.de-pury.com/ 

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This summer special episode presents a relaxed platform for songwriter, author and art curator Tot Taylor and art lawyer Henry Lydiate to share memories of the 1970s when their paths met in the rock music world.  We hear about life in Cambridge and London and how self-identity was developed and culture was accessed without the internet.  

Tot and Henry are the subjects of earlier episodes of this podcast where they share more of their art world past memories and present wisdom.

Useful links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tot_Taylor 

https://www.riflemaker.org/ 

http://www.thehenrylydiatepartnership.com/ 

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In the early millennium Björn Geldhof took a Masters degree in Art History at Leuven University, Belgium.  Since graduating he has been involved in journalism, theatre and art curating including the post of Artistic and Strategic Director at Yarat Contmporary Art Space from 2015-2018.  From 2009 Björn has been involved with PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv where he is Artistic Director.  The Centre closed on 24 February 2022 when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. 143 days later, earlier this week, it reopened with the exhibition  When Faith Moves Mountains which combines works on loan from Antwerp's contemporary art museum M HKA with contemporary Ukrainian art created during the war.  The Pinchuk Foundation also sponsors the Future Generation Art Prize for emerging  international artists as well as the Pinchuk Art Centre Prize for young Ukrainian artists  The prize boards include blue-chip international artists such as Gursky, Hirst, Koons, Murakami and Sir Elton John and the short-listed artists are exhibited at the Venice Biennale.

Useful links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bj%C3%B6rn-geldhof-49a0277/

https://pinchukfund.org/en/ 

https://new.pinchukartcentre.org/en 

https://futuregenerationartprize.org/

https://prize.pinchukartcentre.org/en/about

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Dongmin Kim is an Art Business graduate from Sotheby's Institute of Art, class of 2020. She currently works at Artlogic, the leading art technology company that designs and develops tech solutions for art galleries and art fairs, whilst running her own photography business on the weekends.  She recently won the Portrait category for Rugby Photographer of the Year 2022 and is the official club photographer for Richmond FC.  In 2021 Dongmin started working for the Barbarians FC - the world's most famous invitational international touring side. She initially began building her photography career for clients in theatre but eventually found many similarities between the theatrical physicality of rugby and fast-paced musicals and ballets. 

When she's not at Artlogic or hefting her camera around rugby stadiums, she can be found wild-swimming, perusing artisan bakeries and Nigerian art. Originally from South Korea, Dongmin has worked and studied in Munich, Los Angeles, Seoul and London. 

instagram: @dante.k.photo

https://www.dantekphotography.com/

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Henry Lydiate is a scholar-practitioner and former Visiting Professor of Art Law, University of the Arts, London, and has been a Course Consultant and Visiting Lecturer in legal, business, and professional practice studies at major art schools in the UK since 1978, including Sotheby's Institute of Art London.

Publications include The Visual Artist and the Law, The Visual Artist?s Copyright Handbook, Visual Arts and Crafts Guide to the New Laws of Copyright and Moral Rights. 

Henry is Founding partner of The Henry Lydiate Partnership LLP, the international arts business consultancy whose current clients include: artists; artists? estates; collectors; agents & dealers; art fairs; auction houses; foundations; and public-facing art institutions.

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Anders Petterson is a leading authority on the art market, with particular focus on the modern and  contemporary  emerging  art  markets.  He is  the  Founder  and  Managing  Director  of ArtTactic Ltd, a London-based art market research and advisory company set up in 2001.  Educated at LSE, Anders' career started in the finance world working for JP Morgan.  In 2000 he set up the web-based art market research firm ArtTactic, which borrows the techniques of the financial world to analyse and predict trends in the contemporary art market.  Since 2005 Anders has been a Consultant Lecturer and dissertation supervisor for the MA Art Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art London, where he focuses on art as an alternative investment asset.

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Alex Bass graduated with Distinction from the MA Art Business, Sotheby's Institute of Art London in 2021 with her dissertation on 'Creating an Art Business in a Covid-19 Era'.

Alex is Communications Coordinator at Gagosian Gallery New York.  She is founder and CEO of Salon 21 which introduces emerging artists to likeminded art lovers and collectors in hosted salon-style New York conversations.  Alex is also socially active in encouraging less privileged people to become involved in the art world.

https://www.salontwenty-one.com/home

instagram @salon.21

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Elsa Åkesson is a 25-year-old New York City based contemporary artist and entrepreneur. As a 2020 Fine Art bachelors graduate from the University of the Arts London and a 2022 Sotheby?s Institute masters graduate in Art Business, Elsa has managed to combine both her passion for painting with that of business.  Today, Elsa focuses her career on the development of her studio practice, and her promising start-up SPONGY BAGS.  This start-up has received Sotheby?s Institute?s recognition on May 18th, 2022, by gaining the Gavel Prize, and has as its core mission - to shift the way we package art, create a sustainable impact.

@elsalovespaint @spongybags www.spongybags.com

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16 Nicholson Street Gallery is a Glasgow-based, non-profit arts facilitation space run by a curatorial collaborative. The gallery was established in 2016 and all organisation and programming is managed by Isabella Shields, Nell Cardozo, and Aga Paulina M?y?czak.

Today's guests are the two curators Aga and Nell.  Aga is an Artist and Producer interested in media, electronics, and sculptural work. Nell is the Community Outreach officer for 16 Nicholson Street and leads the community programme ?Freedom in Abstraction, Power in Creativity? in partnership with Empower Women for Change.

For more information: https://16nicholsonstreet.org/ 

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Jeremy Eckstein is a statistician by training. He started his professional life as a fund manager before joining Sotheby's Auction House in 1979 as Head of Research for the company, with responsibility for monitoring the performance of the British Railways Pension Fund's fine art investment portfolio. An independent consultant in the art market since 1990, Eckstein has done a broad range of commissioned research, carrying out surveys for the art trade and producing a variety of statistics and economic analyses. His publications include a major survey for TEFAF Maastricht on the economic impact of art fairs (2006).

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Alicia Livingstone opened her first contemporary art gallery in the Cornish seaside town of Perranporth in 2018, followed by the opening of a second gallery in the seaside artist's colony at St Ives in 2020.  Alice discusses how her art business was impacted by the pandemic and its series of lockdowns, and how she successfully navigated out of it towards opening a third gallery in Clifton, Bristol.

In my introduction to the catalogue of her current exhibition (to 9 April 2022) at JD Malat Gallery Mayfair, I wrote: 'Georgia Dymock is an emerging English artist whose paintings are conceived and born from a combination of digital technology and traditional painterly techniques...... Georgia says that she likes to constantly come close to and then distance herself from the making process by travelling both physically and mentally between the virtual and physical worlds.  This process has become an integral part of the majority of human lives since the start of the pandemic.  Georgia?s paintings are a visual metaphor of what has been happening and continues to happen in the hybrid world of our everyday lives where we distance one another in virtual worlds, sometimes even lose and then movingly rediscover one another in the physical world.  Georgia Dymock?s prophetic paintings help us to find wisdom, understanding and offer a healing mediation of our internal binary oppositions in this world turned upside down.'

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In this episode we learn about the art world of Ukraine and its markets with guests Bohdan Mysiuha, curator of the Museum of Modernism, Lviv and Olena Grubb (alumna of the MA Art Business, Sotheby's Institute of Art, London) who also acts as interpreter for Bohdan's Ukrainian language.  The artistic community in Lviv, in the west of Ukraine, is preparing for the possibility of the current Russian invasion reaching their city.  Bohdan also talks about the history of modern Ukrainian art under Soviet and post-Soviet rule.

Here are some links:

Museum of Modernism

https://www.ukrgate.com/eng/?p=13433 

https://euromaidanpress.com/2021/05/13/ukrainian-modernism-revealed-lviv-artists-in-interwar-period-search-for-true-art-self-national-identity/ 

Ukraine Unofficial - project dedicated to the works of artists of the XX century.

http://www.archive-uu.com/en

Have a look at Yevhen Lysyk scenography here. It's amazing : http://www.archive-uu.com/en/profiles/lysyk-yevhen

This is one of Bohdan's monographs on Ukrainian art of the XX century.

https://issuu.com/archive.uu/docs/uu_23lviv_1?fbclid=IwAR19Cw5oBT31Z-1vujEuHLfi8zzqJLy6mspeofHtPzu7yr4_dg6pe-B8m0Y

These are some of Bohdan's articles for the Ukrainian newspaper (all in Ukrainian though). 

https://zbruc.eu/taxonomy/term/25831?fbclid=IwAR2dTK5QEkdNBlTrDZO1SkiAu25ao54tv8xVzAhMGyOwQxlfriE_UUxXvcU

NB  Information about the Fund for Documentation of the Crimes Against Ukrainian Art formed by the artists from Eastern Ukraine will be posted here later. It was only formed yesterday and its creators are still working on official accounts etc.

Names of some of the artists mentioned:

Oleksandr Archipenko, Alexandra Exter, Davyd Burliuk, Ivan Trush, Mikhail Vrubel

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In this episode of The Art Business podcast, we discuss the Russian art world and its markets, both in the main centres of Moscow and St Petersburg, as well as in the hinterland.

Dr. Anastasia Pechalova (b. 1992 Moscow) is an art market researcher with a PhD in the History of International Relations. She studied at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and now lectures at the Department of International Relations. She has an MA and BA in International Relations, and has recently graduated with distinction from the MA in Art Business at Sotheby?s Institute of Art, London.  Her PhD was on the role of expertise in decision-making and politics.

In 2016-2021 Anastasia worked in top-level Russian politics as a speechwriter. In 2020-2021 she worked as a researcher on a project devoted to trend-watching in culture.  This analysed trends in exhibitions, the work of museums and cultural institutions.

In 2021 Anastasia launched Art Barometer, Russia?s first research platform dedicated to monitoring the art market. To date this includes communications with over 300 dealers, collectors and market professionals about their activities in 2021. http://artbarometer.ru/english 

Anastasia's professional interests include the market for Old Master paintings, Russian art and icons. She collects Russian eighteenth and nineteenth-century icons, damaged and unrestored as well as objects of Russian peasant life.

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Khalil Akar (b.1992) is a Nigerian-Lebanese art director working at the Signature African Art gallery in London. Having been brought up in Lagos, he spent his formative years at his dad?s Signature art gallery studying and learning about art, both traditional and contemporary. He insisted on trying a new field at university to widen his horizon, and earned a Bachelors in Civil Engineering with Sustainability as well as a Masters in Project Management. After five successful years in the construction industry, he decided to return to the art world and setup the Signature African Art gallery in London.  We discuss the history of Signature from its founding in Lagos in 1992 to the opening of the London gallery in 2019 and how the pandemic and BLM has affected it.

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Kojo Marfo's work has become familiar to Londoners living and working in the West End over the last two years since appearing in the 'Isolation Mastered' open competition finalists' exhibition at JD Malat Gallery in Mayfair in the summer of 2020 following months of lockdown.  His magnificent portrait paintings caught the eye of important collectors, so much so that Kojo was given a solo show in the summer of 2021, beautifully named 'Dreaming of Identity' (catalogue introduction written by podcast creator David Bellingham. In this podcast we discuss Kojo's influences and his poetic visual responses to the pandemic, his African heritage and contemporary global society and culture.

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Conrad studied Pure & Applied Mathematics at Warwick University and his early career was in oil derivatives trading. He took my summer school in Art & Its Markets at Sotheby's Institute of Art and was inspired to become an art consultant and dealer.  In 2014 Conrad launched the Emerging Artist Prize which now has over 2,000 global artists applying with over 5,000 artworks every year.  We talk about the relationships between dance, science, mathematics, music and art as well as (from @00:34:15) Conrad's methods of selecting and marketing his artists. Conrad's instagram site @theartprize has 38.4k followers of over 8,000 posts.

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Tot is best known in the art world for his London contemporary art gallery, Riflemaker which he co-curated with Virginia Damtsa from 2003-2018. His first novel The Story of John Nightly was published in 2017.  We talk about his early days in London as a session drummer and his first experiences with the art world from regular visits to Sotheby's to his time spent studying music at Goldsmiths which coincided with Damien Hirst and other nascent YBAs.  During lockdown Tot recorded his first solo album Frisbee......

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JD Malat is a contemporary gallery founded in 2017 and located in Mayfair just down the road from Claridges Hotel and alpha galleries and auction houses including Gagosian, Sadie Cole and Philips.  We talk about London as an art world hub, how galleries develop their artists as well as how they have coped with the pandemic.

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Jacqueline is an alumna of the MA in Art Business, Sotheby's Institute of Art London.  Since joining Bonhams in 2017, Jacqueline has been involved in some of the company's most important sales and events, most recently the previously unseen single-owner sale ?Kusama: The Collection of the late Dr Teruo Hirose?. As Head of Sale, she brought the first mural by Keith Haring to market, achieving a new world record for the artist; she conceived and executed 'Paper Jam' - the department's first curated selling exhibition, and devised the exhibition of the collection of visual arts patron and hip-hop icon Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest.

In addition to her role at Bonhams she also runs an independent auctioneering and fundraising consultancy, serving non-profit institutions and holding auctions at high profile charity galas and benefit events in the United States and Europe. Her clients include international royalty from HRH Prince Charles to Jay-Z and Beyonce, and she has shared the stage with leaders of finance, entertainment, tech and politics. Over the years she has auctioneered to thousands of bidders and raised millions for charity.

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Anna Somers-Cocks OBE is one of the best-known names in the international art world.  After her early career as a curator at the V&A Anna went into art journalism and founded The Art Newspaper in 1980.  She is also renowned for her work with the Venice in Peril Fund as well as the Illicit [Antiquities] Trade Advisory Panel.  We talk about the power of art, walking and spirituality, the illicit trade in Italian antiquities and, of course, the prospects for Venice in the light of COP 26.

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Ruth Millington joined Sotheby's Institute of Art London this summer as Director of Careers Services.  We discuss life and art and Ruth's forthcoming art-historical book Muse (Penguin, due April 2022) which looks at the proactively creative roles of muses, both female and male, in art.

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In this opening episode David Bellingham, Programme Director of the MA Art Business, Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, speaks with Craig Brown, Head of Fair Development and Exhibitors, Masterpiece London, about African art, art fairs and Masterpiece London.

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