Overview
Since the birth of modern art in the late 1800s, artists have developed new strategies to display and sell their works. By the First World War, art dealing and art collecting were transnational affairs. This course will familiarize students with the institutions that have historically played an essential role in shaping the art market including private dealers, galleries, collectors, auction houses, critics, and museums. Through a thematic approach, this series of nine lectures will provide a better understanding of how the role of these players have shifted overtime but still continue to shape our global art world.
The goal of the course is to familiarize the students with the institutions that have historically played an essential role in shaping the art market (private dealers, galleries, collectors, auction houses, museums, official exhibitions). Through lectures, students will focus on the various players who are central to the global art world.
Topics covered:
Introduction to the Ecosystem
The Artist: From Bohemian to Celebrity
The Dealer: Nurturing the Artist
Collectors: from Passion to Investment
From Auction House to Global Art Business
The Future of Museums: Libraries or Theme Parks
Art and Globalization: Fairs and Biennales
Mapping the Future of the Art World
Academic Profile
Veronique Chagnon-Burke, PhD
Independent Scholar, Co-Founder of WADDA [Women Art Dealers Digital Archives]
Throughout her career, Véronique Chagnon-Burke has taught a wide range of subjects in art market studies and art history at Queens College, Parsons School of Design, and Hunter College, among other institutions. Her museum and research positions have included work at the Museum of Modern Art and the College Art Association, and she has also worked at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris. From 2002 to 2021, she was the Director of Christie’s Education in New York, where she also taught the history of the art market.
A specialist in the history of nineteenth century French landscape painting, her fields of expertise also include nineteenth century art criticism and the art market and the role of women in the art world. She received her Ph.D. from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, her M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, and her Licence from the Université Paris-Sorbonne. She is also a graduate of the Ecole du Louvre in museum studies.
Most recently she has been focusing on organizing academic conferences which bring together art history and art market studies, such as Celebrating Female Agency in the Art in June 2018, and Women Art Dealers 1940-1990 in May 2019. Her current collaborative project is the Women Art Dealers Digital Archive (WADDA), a digital platform that maps the role women art dealers played in the institutionalization of modern and contemporary art. She is one of the editors of an upcoming book Women Art Dealers, Makers of the Modern Art Market, 1940-1990, to be published by Bloomsbury in 2023. She is founding member of the New York chapter of The International Art Market Studies Association [TIAMSA] and a section editor for the upcoming Art Market Dictionary to be published by De Gruyter, in Berlin in 2021.
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