The Art Business

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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‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama) 

by TOT TAYLOR

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©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)

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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.

 

music

‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama) 

by TOT TAYLOR

is used by kind permission of the artist

©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)

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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/ 

henry@thehenrylydiatepartnership.com 

https://www.de-pury.com/ 

 

music

‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama) 

by TOT TAYLOR

is used by kind permission of the artist

©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)

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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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‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama) 

by TOT TAYLOR

is used by kind permission of the artist

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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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‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama) 

by TOT TAYLOR

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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/

 

 

intro and outro music

‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama) 

by TOT TAYLOR

is used by kind permission of the artist

©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)

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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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‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama) 

by TOT TAYLOR

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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.

 

intro and outro music

‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama) 

by TOT TAYLOR

is used by kind permission of the artist

©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)

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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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by TOT TAYLOR

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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 18^th, 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

 

intro and outro music

‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama) 

by TOT TAYLOR

is used by kind permission of the artist

©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)

PRS/MCPS/PPL