When museums meet markets

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Notes on contributor

Kathryn Brown is a lecturer in art history and visual culture at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. Her books include Women Readers in French Painting 1870–1890 (Routledge, 2012), Matisse’s Poets: Critical Performance in the Artist’s Book (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), Henri Matisse (forthcoming Reaktion) and as editor and contributor The Art Book Tradition in Twentieth-Century Europe (Routledge 2013), Interactive Contemporary Art: Participation in Practice (I.B.Tauris, 2014), Perspectives on Degas (Routledge, 2017) and Digital Humanities and Art History (Routledge, 2020). Brown has held visiting fellowships at Tulane University, the Australian National University, and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts in Washington DC. Her research has been supported by numerous awards, including most recently from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Brown is the series editor of Contextualizing Art Markets for Bloomsbury Academic.

Notes

1 Quoted in Whitechapel Gallery Press Release, Guerrilla Girls, Is it even worse in Europe? 1 October 2016 – 5 March 2017. https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/about/press/press-release-guerrilla-girls-is-it-even-worse-in-europe/ (Accessed 21 July 2020).

2 A recent example of this that sparked controversy was the decision taken by the Baltimore Museum of Art to undertake a deaccessioning program the purpose of acquiring works by artists who were underrepresented in its collection. For discussion see Halperin (2018).

3 ‘Au coeur de Paris, il y a les Halles avec des établissements culturels, Beaubourg à proximité, le Louvre, un ensemble de musées et de lieux avec des programmations culturelles, des amateurs. Le coeur de Paris évolue et continue à attirer avec une marque qui est la marque de l’art’. English translations by the author. https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/arts-expos/francois-pinault-installe-sa-collection-a-paris-a-la-bourse-du-commerce_3279163.html. (Accessed 21 July 2020).