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How To Avoid Common Mistakes When Pricing Your Art

As an emerging artist, it can be quite overwhelming to decide the selling price of your artwork and make it right. Bridging the gap between what you feel is your artwork’s value and what a potential buyer may be willing to pay can feel impossible, especially when you have no one else to ask for…

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How Do You Price Art For Beginners?

So, you are an emerging artist, and you are not entirely sure how to price your original art? Don’t worry. We are here for you! Pricing art is one of the more difficult things to do, and for obvious reasons: how to put a price tag on a product of emotion and imagination? The answer to this…

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The Ultimate Art Pricing Guide

One of the most complex tasks for emerging artists is most definitely deciding on a price. As art is primarily driven by creativity and emotions, switching to a more business-like type of thinking can pose a significant challenge and stress. However, you are not alone in this endeavor! As the title says, this will be…

Art Guide, Art World

Land Art: How to Own an Earthwork Land art was a term coined by Robert Smithson almost 50 years ago from those earthworks created in the remote areas of Navada, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona, a site-specific and ephemeral genre of landscape art. Smithson along with fellow artists Michael Heizer and Walter de Maria pioneered the land art movement in the 60s.…

Art Guide, Art Market

Art Theft: Protecting Your Collection According to the FBI, 52% of art thefts in the U.S. happen in people’s home with only 10% of art thefts occurring in galleries. And of all that stolen art, only 5% is recovered. In American history, the largest art theft robbery was Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist of 1990, where the stolen artworks…

Art Guide, Art World

Conceptual Art: Why Is It So Difficult To Understand?If you haven’t quite grasped what conceptual art is, don’t be too hard on yourself. Defining it is one thing, understanding it is something else and difficult, even for those who frequent the art circles. Conceptual art or conceptualism is art that has moved beyond traditional aesthetics or even materials. Conceptual art has been widely…

Art Guide, Art Market

Our Favorite Online Art Companies When we think about online art companies, we most often think of places that sell art online. And there are certainly many companies that do that! But it’s not quite that simple. First off, those sales platforms have tons of different offerings and services. And there are plenty of different, non-sales offerings out there for…

Why Should I Catalogue My Art?You’re an artist, a gallerist, a curator, an art collector. You love art—and you want others to love your art, too. How can you share your collection with your friends, family, other enthusiasts, and the world? An art catalogue (digital or print) is a great place to start. What Is An Art Catalogue? Remember the…

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Connecting on ARTDEX There are already ways to upload your art collection to the web or create an online archive—ARTDEX also does those things, but it goes one step further. ARTDEX is designed to help individuals in the art world—artists, collectors, galleries, enthusiasts—connect to one another over their shared love of art. So once you’ve joined the ARTDEX…