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What Are The Challenges Of Establishing The Fair Market Value (Fmv) Of Guggenheim Founding Collection? If The Transparency Of An Asset Value Is Possible On Non-Profit Financial Year Report, How Can The Fmv Preserve The Continuity Of Public Art Patronage, In Spite Of, Deaccession Artwork From The Guggenheim’S Collection Being Sold On The Auction Market?, Leng Ho 2019 Sotheby's Institute of Art

What Are The Challenges Of Establishing The Fair Market Value (Fmv) Of Guggenheim Founding Collection? If The Transparency Of An Asset Value Is Possible On Non-Profit Financial Year Report, How Can The Fmv Preserve The Continuity Of Public Art Patronage, In Spite Of, Deaccession Artwork From The Guggenheim’S Collection Being Sold On The Auction Market?, Leng Ho

MA Theses

A collector’s financial interest in purchasing works of art is often motivated by potential return on investment. These collectors have heard countless stories of others gaining huge financial returns after consigning rare works of art from a museum collection. In recent decades, rising debates on the capitalizing of museum collections to gain financial assets allude to long-term negative repercussions. Those opposed postulate that art patron will lose trust in a museum’s ability to care for its publicly-owned collections. Deaccession is a difficult research topic, attempts to resolve any conflicts of interest in the matter of selling cultural work of art …


Double-Edged Experiences And Their Impact On The Twenty-First-Century Audience: The Ever-Evolving Museum, Ana Sanz Menchero 2019 Sotheby's Institute of Art

Double-Edged Experiences And Their Impact On The Twenty-First-Century Audience: The Ever-Evolving Museum, Ana Sanz Menchero

MA Theses

The twenty-first-century museum is an ever-changing art institution adapting itself to engage a broader audience. The democratization of the museum becomes the priority to make art accessible to everyone. In the quest to find the perfect strategy, museums commit themselves to a constant transformation that seeks to create a unique “business model.” Along this process, institutions provide two-folded experiences to the public; first, the exhibition of art as a spectacular experience, and second, the staging of the museum as an entertaining entity. Today, museum attendance is not necessarily related to the quality of the show anymore. Welcome to the era …


Private Art Museum Backed By Hong Kong Invetment - Wan Fung Art Musem As An Example, Yiye Chen 2019 Sotheby's Institute of Art

Private Art Museum Backed By Hong Kong Invetment - Wan Fung Art Musem As An Example, Yiye Chen

MA Theses

The rapid development of private art museums in the world can be regarded as the epitome of global economic development. The Chinese government has given unprecedented support to the development of culture and art. As the world's second largest economy, China's middle class has been increasing year by year. The hot art market has attracted European and American auction giants, and famous galleries have entered the Chinese market. Since the birth of the first private art museum in China at the end of the 20th century, Chinese scholars have been constantly exploring the direction of development. From copying the European …


Ua51/1/1 University Libraries Dean Committees, WKU Archives 2019 Western Kentucky University

Ua51/1/1 University Libraries Dean Committees, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Unprocessed Dean of Libraries committee files. Includes meeting minutes for Council of Library Department Heads, Virtual Committee, and the Library Website Committee.


Ua1c2/47 Kentucky Building Photos, WKU Archives 2019 Western Kentucky University

Ua1c2/47 Kentucky Building Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of Kentucky Building.


Ua1c2/61 Pioneer Log Cabin Photos, WKU Archives 2019 Western Kentucky University

Ua1c2/61 Pioneer Log Cabin Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of the Pioneer Log Cabin.


Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist, Kathryn McFadden 2019 Virginia Commonwealth University

Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist, Kathryn Mcfadden

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Delacroix, Joyce Carol Polistena 2019 Pratt Institute

Delacroix, Joyce Carol Polistena

Art Inquiries

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Second Sight: Women Artists Of The South, Melissa Yes 2019 University of Alabama at Birmingham

Second Sight: Women Artists Of The South, Melissa Yes

Art Inquiries

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Action Forms: Retrospective: Exhibition Of Ilija Šoškić, Rachel Klipa 2019 Office of Public Art

Action Forms: Retrospective: Exhibition Of Ilija Šoškić, Rachel Klipa

Art Inquiries

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Going (Neo-) Dutch: Establishing Marguerite Gérard’S Artistic Agency, Amanda Strasik 2019 Eastern Kentucky University

Going (Neo-) Dutch: Establishing Marguerite Gérard’S Artistic Agency, Amanda Strasik

Art Inquiries

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Front Matter, 2019 Virginia Commonwealth University

Front Matter

Art Inquiries

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In Memoriam, 2019 Virginia Commonwealth University

In Memoriam

Art Inquiries

In Memoriam: Charles (Randy) Mack, long-time SECAC member and past president of the organization, died in Columbia, SC on October 31, 2018. He was 78. Here, four SECAC members offer memories of Randy, to whom this issue of Art Inquiries is fondly dedicated.


Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas In Japanese Buddhist Art, Kerry Lucinda Brown 2019 Savannah College of Art and Design

Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas In Japanese Buddhist Art, Kerry Lucinda Brown

Art Inquiries

Book review of Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art, by Halle O’Neal.


David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake At Night, Mysoon Rizk 2019 University of Toledo

David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake At Night, Mysoon Rizk

Art Inquiries

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Art Inquiries, Xvii:4, Full Issue, 2019 Virginia Commonwealth University

Art Inquiries, Xvii:4, Full Issue

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Back Matter, 2019 Virginia Commonwealth University

Back Matter

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration, Julia A. Sienkewicz 2019 Roanoke College

How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration, Julia A. Sienkewicz

Art Inquiries

Book review of How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration, by Ellen Winner.


The Noisemakers: Estridentismo, Vanguardism, And Social Action In Postrevolutionary Mexico, Andrea Lepage 2019 Washington and Lee University

The Noisemakers: Estridentismo, Vanguardism, And Social Action In Postrevolutionary Mexico, Andrea Lepage

Art Inquiries

Book review of The Noisemakers: Estridentismo, Vanguardism, and Social Action in Postrevolutionary Mexico, by Lynda Klich.


Leonardo: Discoveries From Verrocchio’S Studio, Lindsay Alberts 2019 Savannah College of Art and Design

Leonardo: Discoveries From Verrocchio’S Studio, Lindsay Alberts

Art Inquiries

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