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On February 5 – 6 – 7, 2021, the Affordable Art Fair is back for its 11th edition at Superstudio Più in Milan. | Image source: italybyevents.com
The Secrets To Becoming An Art Collector
The Secrets To Art Collecting According to the Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report, the global art market has boomed recently, delivering some extraordinarily high returns. And the latest 2020 edition of the report shows global art sales was an estimated $64.1 billion in 2019, while the volume of transactions hit a decade-high of 40.5 million.…
Installation view of “Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction” at the Museum of Modern Art, 2017. Photo courtesy of MoMA. | Image source: artsy.net
How To Start Your Own Art Collection
Art collecting is often related to closed circles of the super-rich ready to spend millions of dollars to acquire the coveted piece of art at Christie’s or Sotheby’s auction rooms in New York or London. Besides, contemporary works of art sold at soaring prices often fill the newspaper and magazine headlines, supporting this widespread assumption for…
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Why You Should Start Collecting Art
Many people relate art collecting to the wealthy people of high society who can afford to sit in private auctions, spend millions of dollars to buy art, just to resell these within several years when their value rises again. Although the art market has experienced an exponential increase in returns for the past decades, investing…
Everson Museum Catalogue Box (1971-94), by Yoko Ono © Yoko Ono (image courtesy of www.apollo- magazine.com)
Art Guide
How to Catalogue ArtFor your own benefit as a collector, artist, gallerist, curator, or art enthusiast, you should keep an archive of your art—that’s a comprehensive record of each piece that lists its name, provenance, materials, contextual information, serial or edition number, and location. Your archive is a good way to organize and keep track of your collection…
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Art Guide
Discovering Artists, Artworks and Collections on ARTDEXNow that you’re an expert in creating collections and organizing your art it’s time to take a look at what other people are up to on ARTDEX! With just a few clicks, you can easily search for and discover new artists, artworks and collections that other users are sharing. To start log in to ARTDEX.…
Conceptual Art Archive ARTDEX
Art Guide
How To Archive Conceptual ArtIt’s relatively easy to archive a painting, a drawing, a photograph, or even a sculpture—you can just take a picture (or several pictures) and add it to your files. Maybe they’re old-fashioned paper records or maybe it’s a digital archive, but the image is the central component. When we’re talking about conceptual art, however, it…
Open book | Photo by Ben White on Unsplash
Art Guide
Using a Bookmarklet to Add Art to ARTDEX While Browsing the Web  Using ARTDEX’s Bookmarklet ARTDEX’s bookmarklet allows you to quickly and easily upload and catalog images of artwork you encounter while browsing the web. By using the bookmarklet you cut out the process of having to download and save the image on your hard drive before being able to upload it to ARTDEX. Here is…
Art Guide
The ARTDEX App is Now LiveWe've got great news for ARTDEX users, our App is live in the iTunes store. Now you can snap, catalog and share artwork on the go. Photographed some fun pieces at the Armory Show on your phone? Bought a new piece of art? Created the next masterpiece for your portfolio? Upload them to your collections…
Marina Abramovic Artist is Present MoMA 2010
Art Guide
How To Archive Performance ArtFor 750 hours, Marina Abramović sat in a chair and stared at strangers. It was 2010 and this feat of endurance was part of her retrospective, The Artist Is Present, at MoMA. Thousands of people eagerly queued up for the privilege of staring back at her. A retrospective is a particularly interesting venue for a…