How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery
Aspiring and new art gallery owners can now find everything they need to plan and operate a successful art gallery in this comprehensive volume. Edward Winkleman draws on his years of experience to explain step by step how to start your new venture. Chapters detail how to: — write a business plan — find start-up capital — find your ideal locale — renovate the space — manage cash flow — promote and grow your new business — attract and retain artists and clients — hire and manage staff — represent your artists. How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery also includes sample forms, helpful tips from veteran collectors, a large section on art fairs, and a directory of art dealers associations.

Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
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How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery
Aspiring and new art gallery owners can now find everything they need to plan and operate a successful art gallery in this comprehensive volume. Edward Winkleman draws on his years of experience to explain step by step how to start your new venture. Chapters detail how to: — write a business plan — find start-up capital — find your ideal locale — renovate the space — manage cash flow — promote and grow your new business — attract and retain artists and clients — hire and manage staff — represent your artists. How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery also includes sample forms, helpful tips from veteran collectors, a large section on art fairs, and a directory of art dealers associations.

Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
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How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery

How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery

by Edward Winkleman
How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery

How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery

by Edward Winkleman

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Overview

Aspiring and new art gallery owners can now find everything they need to plan and operate a successful art gallery in this comprehensive volume. Edward Winkleman draws on his years of experience to explain step by step how to start your new venture. Chapters detail how to: — write a business plan — find start-up capital — find your ideal locale — renovate the space — manage cash flow — promote and grow your new business — attract and retain artists and clients — hire and manage staff — represent your artists. How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery also includes sample forms, helpful tips from veteran collectors, a large section on art fairs, and a directory of art dealers associations.

Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781581157277
Publisher: Allworth
Publication date: 02/23/2010
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 477 KB

About the Author

Edward Winkleman began his career in the art world with a series of guerilla-style exhibitions organized in New York and London under the name 'hit&run'. In 2001 he co-founded Plus Ultra Gallery in the Williamsburg district of Brooklyn, New York. He was a founding member and the first president of the Williamsburg Gallery Association and an early member of the New Art Dealers Alliance. Moving into Manhattan's gallery district in Chelsea in 2006, he changed the name of the gallery to Winkleman Gallery. The gallery's exhibitions have been reviewed in the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, the New Yorker, TimeOut New York, and Art on Paper, among others. Winkleman has participated in art fairs such as ARCO, Art Chicago, Pulse, Year 06, Aqua, and NADA. He is the author of an eponymous blog about the art world and politics and a contributing editor to the international blog Art World Salon. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Acknowledgments xi

Chapter 1 Education: How to Learn What You Don't Know Before Opening a Commercial Art Gallery 1

Chapter 2 Identity: Defining Your Program and Other Branding Issues 15

Chapter 3 Business Models and Customary Practices: The Primary Market 25

Chapter 4 The Secondary Market 45

Chapter 5 Start-up Capital: How Much You Need and How to Get It 55

Chapter 6 Writing a Business Plan 67

Chapter 7 Location and Build-Out Issues 85

Chapter 8 Managing Cash Flow 99

Chapter 9 Logistics: Crating, Shipping, Framing, Photographing, Managing, and Insuring Artwork 111

Chapter 10 Staffing and Management Practices 129

Chapter 11 Promotional Efforts: Publicity and Advertising 137

Chapter 12 Getting Expert Advice and Professional Assistance 153

Chapter 13 Art Fairs 165

Chapter 14 Artists: Where to Find Them; How to Keep Them 183

Chapter 15 Collectors: Where to Find Them; How to Keep Them 207

Chapter 16 Peerage: The Art Gallery Community 219

Appendix A The Standard Art Consignment Agreement 228

Appendix B Regional Art Dealers Associations 232

Bibliography 236

Index 237

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