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JAN16-cover-Blue2-SS_Layout 1 1/15/16 12:15 PM Page 1 Art World News J A NUA RY 2016 THE INDEPENDENT NEWS SOURCE VERUS ART LAUNCHED LEGAL ISSUES: ART BY LARSON-JUHL APPROPRIATION REDUX Larson-Juhl announces the Joshua Kaufman, a leading launch of Verus Art, provider attorney in art, copyright, of re-creations of Master and licensing law, discusses artworks, and is establishing issues that anyone who a gallery program. With creates or sells art that in- Sorelle Gallery, located in New Canaan, CT. detail that ensures accuracy corporates third party intel- within 10 microns, Verus lectual property must deal Art’s re-creations enable art with: copyright, right of COLOR & DESIGN TRENDS aficionados to experience publicity, and trademark the visual and tactile sensa- claims. His article, written in tion of an artist’s original collaboration with Thai X. FOR 2016 IN ART & FRAMING brushwork. See page 16. Nguyen, begins page 28. With the art and framing industry so closely allied to the home furnishings and fashion industries, trends in color and design can have a considerable effect on retailers’ choices of mould- ERTE EXHIBITION AT PRINTING CAN GROW ´ ings and open edition prints. Hence, for the New Year, we ex- THE HERMITAGE FRAMING SALES plore the trends that finished the year strong, and those that are ascending in 2016. We also asked members of the art and A major Erté exhibition is Adding professional digital framing industry if there is an emerging or even continuing style to take place at the presti- printing to a frameshop’s that allows retailers to make Shades of grey in prints and gious Hermitage Museum in menu of services can open more revenue through better photographs play well with St. Petersburg in June, the door to expansion of mark ups. “If grey is a color, post-modern interiors as of which Martin Lawrence the retailer’s customer that is the one I hear most of people are keen to have alter- Galleries with 10 locations base, as well as more from my customers,” says natives to Ford Model T black. across the U.S. is a custom framing jobs. Dale Holmgren, sales & mar- It also affords an opportunity sponsor. Article, page 14. Turn to article on page 22. keting, Northern California, for for creative design ideas. Valley/International Moulding. continued on page 10 QUOTE OF THE MONTH: “Sometimes frameshops don’t give customers credit that they want to pay for high-end mat- board. They should not assume. There is a good, better, best story framers can tell customers.” Jack Dempsey, page 38. *Ad Template-revised_Layout 1 12/30/15 1:47 PM Page 1 *Ad Template-revised_Layout 1 12/30/15 1:48 PM Page 1 *Ad Template-revised_Layout 1 1/14/16 10:11 AM Page 1 JAN16-toc-KSK_Layout 1 1/15/16 11:13 AM Page 1 VOLUME XXI INSIDE THIS ISSUE ISSUE 1 DEPARTMENTS Verus Art Launched ACC Takes on Art and Framing By Larson-Juhl China Again On the Runway ARTISTS & PUBLISHERS Page 8 Larson-Juhl has announced The four open edition print Fashion house Viktor&Rolf the launch of Verus Art, publishers who visited fairs in has unveiled its Haute Cou- FRAMING provider of re-creations of China in the fall found fewer ture line of women’s clothing Page 16 Master artworks with detail infringements. Those applied featuring wearable framed that ensures accuracy within mainly to their own images, art created by the two design- LEGAL ISSUES 10 microns, and is establish- and the ACC encourages ers and co-founders Viktor Page 28 ing a gallery program. more publishers to participate. Horsting and Rolf Snoeren. ARTCLAIM DATABASE Page 16 Page 18 Page 20 Page 32 Abbey Road Global Fine Art Signs What’s Hot in CALENDAR Fine Art Established Frederick Phillips Open Editions Page 36 Abbey Road Fine Art & Licens- Global Fine Art is now the What’s Hot in Open Editions NEW ART ing, a new division of Penny publisher and distributor in features a variety of the lat- Page 40 Lane Fine Art & Licensing, has North America of the work of est best selling open edition been established, featuring the Frederick Phillips, reintroduc- prints, some available as GALLERY LIGHTS open edition work of 20 artists ing the artist known for his print-on-demand images from Page 41 aimed at the hospitality and post-Surrealist paintings and publishers, and includes con- fine home furnishings industry. limited edition prints. tact information. WHAT’S HOT IN OPEN EDITION Page 12 Page 16 Page 42 Page 42 OPEN EDITION PRINTS Page 44 CLASSIFIEDS Page 45 AD INDEX Page 46 Artwork featured is “ A New Day” by Myan Soffia, available as a print on paper, canvas, wood, acrylic, and metal. Call Image Conscious, San Francisco, at (800) 532-2333 or: www. imageconscious.com. ART WORLD NEWS PAGE 5 JAN16-Opinion-K_Layout 1 1/14/16 2:21 PM Page 1 IN OUR OPINION new art, products, services, THE NUMBERS and technology has become less subjective and instinc- ART WORLD NEWS tive while becoming more MATTER Editor in Chief Sarah Seamark analytical. [email protected] he new year has Successful purchase deci- Managing Editor Koleen Kaffan started with a wave of sions are rooted in the detail [email protected] Tnew styles and trends of the numbers. Over the Production Manager Sue Bonaventura in art and framing that will no last several years, industry doubt delight consumers on vendors have advanced their Editor at Large Jo Yanow-Schwartz all levels. The speed and ability and sophistication to depth of new looks coming share their value proposi- Columnists Todd Bingham to market is nothing less tions with retailers, helping [email protected] than amazing in their ability them understand and re- Barney Davey to capture the mind and frame their thoughts to [email protected] wallet of buyers on all levels. evaluate purchases. Some Joshua Kaufman However, for the retailer companies have gone be- [email protected] forced to decide which op- yond their immediate self- portunities to invest in, all interest and have invested in Contributing Writers Greg Perkins that glitters may not be gold. the education of the industry Cristi Smith at a grass roots level. They Zella Hannum Most suppliers expect are to be applauded. The Publisher John Haffey 2016 to be a good year for biggest challenge resides [email protected] the art and frame industry, as within the individual retailer we continue the long march to elevate their skill-sets to Associate Publisher Brooks Male from the depths of the re- the point of maximizing cession. But one nagging the return on their decisions. Information Technologist Joe Gardella characteristic of the market will continue—the intense Editorial Advisory Board price competition on all lev- Phillip Gevik, Gallery Phillip, Toronto, Canada els of the distribution chain. John Haffey Steven Hartman, The Contessa Gallery, Cleveland, OH As a consequence, for the Publisher frameshop and gallery, the Jeff Jaffe, POP International Galleries, New York buying decision to source Heidi Leigh, AFA, SoHo, NY Ruth-Ann Thorn, Exclusive Collections Gallery, San Diego, CA ADVERTISING SALES INFORMATION Eastern U.S. & International Midwest & West Coast John Haffey, Publisher Brooks Male, Associate Publisher Phone (203) 854-8566 Phone (203) 854-8566 Fax (203) 900-0225 Fax (203) 900-0225 [email protected] Art World News (Volume XXI, Number 1) ISSN 1525 1772 is published 10 times a year by Wellspring Communications, Inc.: P.O. Box 129, Rowayton, CT 06853. Phone (203) 854-8566 • Fax (203) 900-0225; To order additional copies or back issues e-mail: [email protected] or fax to (203) 900-0225. Please indicate which month and year you are requesting. Single copy price is $10.00. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photography, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission, in writing, from the publisher. PAGE 6 ART WORLD NEWS *Ad Template-revised_Layout 1 1/13/16 3:49 PM Page 1 JAN16-A&P-pg1_Layout 1 1/14/16 2:45 PM Page 1 ARTISTS & PUBLISHERS Bidens Display Alpert Military Work Morris Marks Coke Bottle Centennial Vice President Burton Morris Joe Biden and presented his his wife Dr. Jill “100 Coca-Cola Biden chose Bottles” installa- to display a tion to celebrate triptych by 100 years of the military artist iconic Coke bot- Steve Alpert tle at Soho Con- at their Wash- temporary Art, ington resi- New York, in De- dence during cember. Among the Holidays. Vice President Joe Biden, left, and his wife the attendees Burton Morris with his wife Sara, left, The oil paint- Jill, far right, with military artist Steve were Real House- and race horse syndicate owner Sheila ing, “Portrait Alpert and his wife Dorothy. wives of NYC Rosenblum holding a painting by Morris of a Woman,” stars Ramona of one of her star horses, La Verdad. each panel of which is 30 by 40 inches, shows three views Singer and Dor- of a woman dressed in the uniform of a marine lieutenant inda Medley, and well known figures from the horse racing saluting the American flag. The model for the portrait is world. Earlier in the day, Morris appeared on Good Day New Cloteal Horne who played the part of a marine lieutenant in York to promote the show featuring his series of 100 paint- the war drama The Steadfast, produced by Alpert. “It was ings inspired by the Coca-Cola bottle. For information on one of the highlights of my life,” says Alpert of his experi- these paintings, contact Soho Contemporary Art: www.