Normally in March, we enjoy a bloom of arts activity across all media—performances, visual art, movies, you name it. As the arts ramp up in springtime, busy cultural summers begin to unfold. The cultural season kicks off with the start of summer art fairs, graduation exhibits for MFA and BFA students, an influx of new theater on Broadway, film festivals and concert venue programming for summer events.

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It’s the most vulnerable that are set to suffer the most and, in the topsy-turvy value system of contemporary art, that means artists and other freelancers.
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Is art a good investment? According to experts, art often outperforms other asset classes like real estate, while the Wall Street Journal declared that art achieved a 10.6 percent return in 2018 based on Art Market Research’s Art 100 Index, outpacing all other categories. Martin Gammon looks into the question whether art is an attractive asset class for a middle market investor with a typical 5–10 year horizon analogous to other alternative investments.
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For collectors at any level, there exists a set of criteria to consider before collecting an artist’s work. Every art collector has their own aesthetic and set of values. With this in mind, Audra Lambert takes a look at the different aspects of art collecting that should be first in the minds of collectors as they begin venturing into collecting emerging artists’ work.
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Private collections are often the backbone of major institutions

It’s no mystery that many of our museum experiences are led by visionary collectors who have either made significant donations or opened new museums to exhibit their extensive art collections.
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How Tech has Transformed the World of Art Collecting

What does it mean to be introduced to the art world through Instagram? How will you display an artist’s 50-year retrospective when their 2016 exhibition is a series of GIFs, contained on a thumb drive?
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Groucho Marx once said that he never wanted to belong to any club that would accept him as a member. I feel a similar skepticism about being part of a club I never asked to join. But my 1983 birth grants me membership in what demographers and marketers now call “millennials.” Like every generation, our predecessors say we’re spoiled and self-absorbed—Timemagazine dubbed us the “Me Me Me Generation.” A generous history may one day overlook our need for constant validation and safe spaces, but for now, the cliché of being over-parented, over-schooled, and over-protected isn’t completely off base.
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