Volume I · The complete issue
Long-form perspectives on advisory practice, stewardship and a thoughtful life with art.
Advisory practice · 7 min read
The transaction may be complete, but stewardship has just begun: documentation, logistics, installation and long-term care turn a purchase into a collection record.
Read the analysisCollection strategy · 6 min read
The strongest strategies create a lens for decisions while leaving room for discovery, surprise and change.
Read the analysisAdvisory practice · 8 min read
The right advisor helps you define what you are building, explains how the market works, discloses how they are paid and remains accountable through research, negotiation, logistics and long-term stewardship.
Read the analysisArt & real estate · 7 min read
A beautiful home does not automatically produce a meaningful collection. The central question is not what matches a room, but what work deserves to enter the family's life.
Read the analysisAdvisory practice · 8 min read
A working description of the role: which tasks an advisor takes on, which they delegate, and where the line sits between advisor, dealer and consultant.
Read the analysisIndustry practice · 9 min read
How developers, sales teams and art advisors collaborate on art programmes for new-construction luxury residences, from the first design meeting to the final closing.
Read the analysisAdvisory practice · 9 min read
How a family office builds, governs and operates an art programme, and what the right advisor looks like for an institutional-grade engagement.
Read the analysisAdvisory practice · 8 min read
How corporations approach art as part of their brand, their workplace and their stakeholder engagement, and what an advisor brings to a corporate engagement.
Read the analysisAdvisory practice · 7 min read
How a credible advisor-collector relationship develops over the first engagement, the first year, the first decade, and the long arc of a collection.
Read the analysisAdvisory practice · 7 min read
What an advisor reviews at year-end, what the review covers for the collector, and how the review becomes the foundation of the next year's programme.
Read the analysisIndustry practice · 9 min read
A sales gallery is a persuasion instrument with a fixed lifespan. What separates the ones that move units from the ones that are merely expensive.
Read the analysisAdvisory practice · 8 min read
The advice advisors give privately is less exciting than the advice buyers expect: slow down, cost the whole purchase, and stop asking whether it will appreciate.
Read the analysisAdvisory practice · 8 min read
Most first acquisitions fail on one of three counts: the collector had no thesis, no evidence, or no plan for living with the work. A framework for testing all three.
Read the analysisAdvisory practice · 8 min read
The art advisory field is largely unregulated, so the structures that create conflict are legal, common and rarely volunteered. The questions that surface them.
Read the analysisAdvisory practice · 8 min read
Much of this field still runs on handshakes. A short written agreement covering scope, fees, authority and confidentiality prevents nearly every dispute that occurs.
Read the analysisAdvisory practice · 6 min read
Free advice from galleries, auction houses and platforms is funded by the seller. What that means, and what independent paid advice buys.
Read the analysisAdvisory practice · 6 min read
What an art advisor adds to estate planning, where a qualified appraiser must take over, and how the advisor works with lawyers.
Read the analysisAdvisory practice · 6 min read
The routes into art advisory through galleries, auction houses, museums and finance, and the skills and ethics the work demands.
Read the analysisCollection strategy · 5 min read
Art succession is settled years before an estate is. How advisors involve heirs, set governance and decide what should stay together.
Read the analysisAdvisory practice · 6 min read
Portrait commissions go wrong over likeness, sittings and rights. What to agree before the first sitting, and who owns the copyright.
Read the analysisArt & real estate · 6 min read
How home art advisors, interior designers and architects divide the work on a residence: timing, sourcing, budgets and conflicts.
Read the analysisCollection strategy · 6 min read
Moving a collection abroad means export rules, restricted materials, customs, insurance and climate. What to check, and in what order.
Read the analysisAdvisory practice · 6 min read
Before a client commits to a purchase, the advisor should put the case in writing. The sections a sound acquisition report includes.
Read the analysisAdvisory practice · 6 min read
What a well-run first year with an art advisor looks like: onboarding, a collection review, a strategy, first purchases and reporting.
Read the analysisAdvisory practice · 6 min read
The signs an advisory relationship has stopped working, how to end it cleanly, and how to make sure the collection's records come back.
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