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A quartet of key art market players join forces to form ‘super group’ consultancy

The Art Newspaper

L-R: Brett Gorvy, Philip Hoffman, Ed Dolman, Patti Wong, Alex Dolman Courtesy of Emilio Madrid Four of the art market’s leading figures have joined forces to establish a new consultancy firm to manage top-level clients and their collections through what they say are unprecedented shifts in the trade.

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Saudi Arabia helps cultural businesses reach global audiences

The Art Newspaper

The CDF provides a range of solutions, from consultations with experts to enhance managerial, financial, and technical capabilities, assistance with costs relating to setting up businesses, knowledge-sharing workshops, and access to financing.

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Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

The Art Newspaper

We’ve actually had a great five years, because we’ve positioned ourselves as one of the go-to galleries for monumental sculpture,” says Gerrish, who often works with interior and garden designers, and is currently helping a US collector build a collection of large-scale sculpture.

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What does a so-called ‘buyer’s market’ look like at Art Basel?

The Art Newspaper

Now is the time to buy—it is the best time I have ever seen,” says Philip Hoffman, the founder of the Fine Art Group consultants. While the quality of offerings at Art Basel this year is very good, sales are slow and expectations are modest. Deals will close, but at 20-30% below the asking price.” Bourgeois spider to a huge $2.5m

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UK Heritage Department feared ‘mass restitutions’ when Stone of Scone was returned to Scotland

The Art Newspaper

The Department of National Heritage was furious with John Major for failing to consult it over this “precedent to mass restitution”. She wrote: “Had we been consulted, we would have advised against return because of the likely fall-out, i.e. other countries seeing the return of the Stone as setting a precedent to mass restitution.

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Should UK museums display mummies? One institution is asking its visitors for their view

The Art Newspaper

The museum is running a public consultation on the future of Asru, a woman who lived in Thebes, southern Egypt around 2,700 years ago. It is unclear when the consultation ends and how the museum will respond to the issues raised. Should we continue to display the body of Asru?”

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Influential New York gallery Venus Over Manhattan will close after 13 years

The Art Newspaper

© Patrick McMullan The notorious collector and dealer Adam Lindemann will shut the doors of Venus Over Manhattan, the gallery he founded in 2012, to return to building his personal art collection. I’ve seen it from both sides, and now it’s time to wave the white flag,” Lindemann wrote in an open letter published on Artnet.

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