Dear Members,
On Thursday evening, February 9th at 6:00 pm, ADAA will host a members only panel discussion entitled, "Representing Artist-Endowed Foundations in the Art Market." In organizing the event, we have collaborated with the Aspen Institute, which has just completed an extensive national study on the subject.
We have decided to keep this event private in order to ensure an open discussion of the subject and to allow our members the freedom to ask the panelists questions that might pertain to their individual gallery or roster of artists. I have included a general description and the list of panelists. I do hope you will join us. The event begins at 6:00pm and will be held at Mitchell-Innes and Nash at 534 West 26th street. Click here to RSVP for this event.
With best regards,
Linda
Representing Artist-Endowed Foundations
in the Art Market
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 6:00–8:00 pm
Mitchell-Innes and Nash, 534 West 26th Street
This panel will draw on the research findings of the Aspen Institute's National Study of Artist-Endowed Foundations to discuss trends, policy, and practice shaping the fast-emerging field of private foundations endowed by visual artists in the US. The first research initiative on the topic, the Study identified 300 foundations and nearly $3 billion in assets held in foundations bearing such names as Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Mapplethorpe, Joan Mitchell, and Andy Warhol. The viability of these distinctively endowed charitable organizations and their philanthropic programs rests squarely on the multiple roles played by their art assets, whose aesthetic and cultural significance informs scholarly, educational, and economic value.
Panelists:
JAMES T. DEMETRION, Director Emeritus, Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, editor, Clyfford Still, Paintings: 1944-1960 (Yale, 2001).
MARION R. FREMONT-SMITH, Senior Research Fellow, the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, author, Governing Nonprofit Organizations: Federal and State Law and Regulation (Belknap Harvard, 2004).
STEPHEN K. URICE, Associate Professor, University of Miami School of Law, co-editor, Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts, 5th Ed. (Kluwer, 2006).
CHRISTINE J. VINCENT, Study Director, The Aspen Institute's National Study of Artist-Endowed Foundations.
