Art Exhange? How the International Art Market Lacks a Clear Regulatory Framework Jasonlouise Graham

To illustrate the globalisation aspect – we had a fiscal crisis in the early nineties in the fine art marketplace, and this was mainly driven by the Japanese crisis. When the market went down, it took nearly 14 years for it to come back to it'southward previous level. In 2008 we had some other crisis, if you remember, and at that fourth dimension information technology took less than 18 months for the art market to recover. This ways that the art market can absorb shocks faster than previously mainly because of globalisation. Just await at China's fine art market place share: in 2005 it was 3.7%, but in 2016 information technology was already upwards to 19%. And if we look at different categories, for contemporary art information technology is mayhap the biggest marketplace in the world. And then, it is a completely new dynamic! […] We have estimated that ultra loftier-net-worth individuals accept at present invested effectually one.six trillion dollars in collectible assets, and by 2026 we estimate that this amount will be ii.seven trillion. More and more than wealthy people are buying art objects, thereby creating a need for fine art and wealth management services.' This is how Adriano Picinati di Torcello, a director within the advisory and consulting department at Deloitte Luxembourg, described the electric current situation of the global art market place in his presentation 'Investment in art – what is driving the record-large interest in art investment?' at the Swedbank Private Cyberbanking Seminar in Riga.

Adriano Picinati di Torcello | Managing director | Global Art & Finance Coordinator

Having worked for many years every bit a business organisation adviser in the financial industry, Adriano Picinati di Torcello is in charge of coordinating art and finance activities at Deloitte Luxembourg and in the Deloitte global network of Member Firms.  He co-writes Deloitte and ArtTactic's Art & Finance report, published every xviii months, which compiles information from finance consultants, art professionals, and art collectors regarding the main trends and developments in the global art market. Adriano also organises the annual Deloitte Fine art & Finance conferences, which since 2004 have been held in various cities effectually the globe.

What are the main reasons why people buy art? What makes up the value of a work of art? Was the controversial sale of Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi a wise investment? How could investing in art benefit order, cities, regions or countries? These are only a few of the questions that were covered in Arterritory.com's interview with Adriano Picinati di Torcello.

According to final year's Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report, on the list of motivations for why people buy fine art, fiscal investment was just number v – coming in later on aesthetic, emotional and cultural motivations and such. At that place are still many people in the manufacture who are convinced that fine art should be bought and sold because it is enjoyed and generates a special response in the viewer. However, the Deloitte report states that 'art collectors appear to be increasingly focused on investment returns'. How would you lot comment on this?

I tried to explicate today that this pure investment part is extremely limited. It's a bit misleading when we say that art is an investment. The majority of collectors buy (I don't similar the term 'invest') art for purely emotional reasons; that is the master commuter. However, for the majority of them, the financial component is there as well. What does that mean? For them, it'south not that it's like an investment on which they're looking for a return, simply they do want to be informed. They don't want to crazily throw money around – they want to know the value of the art, is the toll off-white for that specific piece of work, and then on. The fiscal aspect is part of the equation. It is not a transaction that is washed without fiscal consideration. Large sums are involved. So unless it'south a case of two people with dueling egos simply outpricing i another and flashing millions, the money gene must be taken into account. Art is something people purchase in one case their other needs have been met, but still, it is not to be taken lightly, and people do not want to act foolishly.

The art marketplace is increasing in transparency, data is available, and people are beginning to criterion. When you become to an fine art fair, you may see similar paintings by the same artist, but with major differences in their prices; if you lot're a new collector, you may wonder why that is. One needs qualitative analysis, but also quantitative analysis. Anyone who goes into a gallery or wishes to make a transaction needs both types of information: why this is a good creative person, why this is a proficient artwork by this artist, and also some rationale about the price. That's the financial component...over time, art tin can become a part of one'southward financial avails. We all effort to protect our total wealth, and this is part of that, so it should not exist disregarded. It is merely good financial management, if I may say so. Depending on the state yous live in, information technology is likely that you volition accept to pay taxes on your art. So you lot should know the value, y'all should accept documentation, and you have to take care of this asset. And if it's an emotional asset, you will want to protect it fifty-fifty more.

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To regard fine art as an asset is nada new; I call up information technology goes dorsum to at least the 17^thursday century. In your presentation, y'all mentioned the year 2004 as some kind of a turning signal. Why was that year and then crucial?

Art is an investment, but how do nosotros define investment? Fine art acquisition has existed for hundreds of years. If we become back to the Medicis, I don't call up it was an investment for them. They wanted to be patrons – it was to back up the city, for glory, for their egos, the social bear upon and and so on. In that location was no idea or plan for reselling art at the time of the Medicis. The Fine Art Group was founded in 2001, simply when the market began to pick up: we saw prices increasingly interruption records – 500, g, one million, one hundred million. The financial interest in fine art objects was increasing – the financial component of information technology – and on top of that, at that time an commodity titled "Beautiful Asset: Art equally Investment" was published in The American Economical Review past two professors, [Jianping] Mei and [Michael] Moses, on the underperformance of masterpieces. This university paper was also covered by the Economist and other newspapers, and it shed some light on the financial component of art objects. In that location were different elements; on the one mitt, the market was booming, there was more publicity on this fact, and more transparency in terms of data...Sotheby'south had seen this happen in the 1960s, and so it wasn't a completely new thing, and it was coming again. So now there were these bookish papers talking about this functioning, and it created an appeal. From 2000 to 2008, the market was just booming in terms of pure investment.  I must make it clear that every bit Deloitte, we do not make any investment recommendations; we do not say that art is or is non a good investment. Nosotros just say that if you want to wait at it as a pure investment, you lot accept to do that very carefully. Y'all have to do your homework earlier you rush into it.

I believe that nigh 80% of all art bought in local markets and at local art fairs would be hard to sell for more than its purchase cost. And it'due south not easy to resell considering y'all have to discover an appropriate gallery or auction house, and galleries are non always happy to take something back for reselling. Fashions and tastes change, and virtually academic fine art professionals are non willing to talk about fine art in terms of investing. To buy art as an investment is quite tricky.

It is super tricky. That's why when we talk about art and wealth management at Deloitte, nosotros tend to focus on protecting wealth and transferring wealth, but less on investment. Some people are very successful in pure investment – they take inside information, they watch the markets, they know the trendsetters, etc. Now for someone without all the right connections, it is really challenging […] We are extremely cautious about art every bit an investment. Yes, there is a 'shadow' art investment market, but when we expect purely at the official art investment market, it is extremely small-scale.

Despite all of the attempts to regulate it, the fine art marketplace is still very opaque and unregulated; but now that there is a growing interest in art investment, and the fact that fine art is at present considered an asset class, do you run across ways in which the market could change?

Yeah I practice, because the increasing interest in fine art equally an asset is definitely one of the principal drivers. If you compare information technology with whatsoever other industries or business organisation sectors, the art market was very small 20 years ago – a few billions, and in the easily of a happy few. In whatever industry, as you begin to develop and go more than international, more than global, more transactional, y'all demand to become much more sophisticated, more transparent.  Whatsoever sector that goes into different development phases has to adapt to size; the market itself has to adapt. Of form, more experienced collectors know what they are dealing with...they are used to the market, they know how to be brash, but there is a whole group of new collectors who are interested in the art market – it's appealing, it's cool, it's trendy…

It's a part of the lifestyle.

They take money, they can buy things. But no one wants to be a fool. If they have a bad experience, they will non come dorsum. Only if you tin help these new buyers, build their trust, help them get into the market place, and to spend more than, in the finish they volition be supporting the market place, the different stakeholders, and the artists. Which is why trust is important in order to become all of these new collectors on board – the new collectors coming from emerging countries and everywhere else. We live in a earth that is pushing for more transparency in everything. And the fine art market was a scrap opaque. This may accept been OK a few years agone, but not at present.

Nigh all objects on this planet that are bought or sold can be identified with a serial number. Fine art objects practice non have this.

Quoting the Israeli art collector whom I interviewed terminal year: 'Art becomes the ultimate offshore – the work of fine art could be in one country, and the money could be in a dissimilar country; and in the meantime, the seller also lives in some other country, and the buyer lives in nevertheless another state, and lastly, the work of fine art is to be stored in yet some other land. So, above this offshore is only the moon.'

That is another interesting element – it is a transferable nugget, a movable asset; you don't have a currency attached to it. People like this aspect, peculiarly when ane feels unsecure in a certain place. It's much easier to movement a painting than a house. If you look at the market process today, someday you consummate a transaction, you lot have to do due diligence. Is this a rational approach? Wouldn't it be easier if a new heir-apparent could go all of the information automatically, such as the fact that the condition report was washed 5 years ago, etc. … all of the documents, the provenance and so on, would be there. My view is that this will increment trust, and increase liquidity considering information technology is currently assumed that we ain fine art objects for 'forever'.

What do y'all mean by 'forever'?

Exactly – why forever? If you create a market that is much more liquid, people will also exist much more comfortable buying. You lot buy real estate because yous can resell information technology; you are non stuck with it forever. We live on a small planet where 'stability' is not exactly the primal word of our times. Nosotros live in a land of perpetual motility. Look at how the new generation behaves. When we analyse their behaviours, we cannot say that they will buy fine art for 'forever'. They want to rotate their collections based on their tastes, where they live...and if they can easily do this, why not? Everything that will assist this market go more than transparent, increase trust, become more than professional, increment liquidity, etc., volition be an overall benefit for the marketplace.

Today, everyone is dealing with images; everyone is on Instagram, on social media. Nosotros are bombarded with images. Contemporary art is considered to exist 'mega-absurd', you take these collaborations in which brands combine art with objects...civilisation is everywhere...nosotros simply saw Jay-Z and Beyoncé at the Louvre, standing next to these masterpieces. This made me say 'Wow' – it showed the museum from a completely different bending and to a new crowd... musicians and masterpieces are a very interesting combination. You can experience things differently. When nosotros talk nearly art, it's nigh emotion, about experience – with 3D, with virtual reality, we'll exist able to offer to everyone a way to experience art completely differently than before. People are really interested in that. Nosotros should non forget that fine art is also our world heritage. If people can have a piece of information technology past having it on their walls, or past having a partial investment because they cannot buy a Banksy or whatever, but if they purchase a share in company XYZ, information technology is something fun to talk almost and they can besides say that they are involved in the management of it. I think that people will similar it. On top of that, it's a social investment, then this may exist an avenue that philanthropists will accept.

This world is changing...I may be an idealist, but we can become in both directions and better transparency with regulations. When I say regulations, I don't mean only government regulations, but too marketplace regulations. When nosotros talk about valuation, for instance, in the Us there is an appraisers' association, while in another countries nothing close to that even exists. Some countries have associations of auction houses; some don't. Some countries accept gallery associations with guidelines, with a code of conduct; others don't. I'm not proverb that we need something on the same level as medical doctors do, in which in that location are very strict rules and regulations. Just the more than money involved, the more information technology will concenter another kind of crowd. You can practise your business as properly and correctly every bit you want. Just if someone in your field is doing something incorrect, this volition bear on you as well – similar the maxim well-nigh one bad apple tree spoiling the barrel. This market attracts a lot of visibility; every time a scandal occurs, news of information technology travels around the world and people become scared.

If a market bubble develops, at that place's the adventure that quantity will increase but quality will decrease.  There are many examples of this, such as the infamous Zombie Formalism; art is everywhere  – it's on social media, it'southward fashionable, the prices are going upwards, but the marketplace still lacks dignity…

That's a wide question. Art is everywhere more e'er, and now the act of 'creating' tin be washed very quickly. We are far from being perfect, just there is more stability in the world, there is more wealth, which supports inventiveness to a sure extent...there are more than people on this planet than ever before, and there are more wealthy people than e'er earlier. Art is not only for the super rich; we have very affordable fine art fairs now, and we should exist thankful for that, even for reproduction prints and such.

There are a growing number of people who take an interest in a cultural object. The need is at that place, the offer is at that place, and with the help of technology, artists tin can increase their visibility and information technology is easier for potential buyers to search according to their tastes. Similar in whatsoever sector, not anybody will be a 'winner', just if we support the sector correctly, there will exist more 'winners' – people who are amend off afterward. I'm talking about all stakeholders: museums, the government, artists, collectors, secondary markets, the primary market. Culture is a very of import element of our social club. We take to give it its rightful place. Quite frequently I have the feeling that civilisation is not always being considered at the correct level. Civilisation tin can fight against farthermost thinking, information technology can aid certain groups integrate into society, it opens our minds, it educates, information technology brings united states of america joy, it helps 1 find a sense in life. These are the social factors, just there's likewise an economical factor in terms of visitors, tourism and then on. But too, if you increase the quality of life and invest in your location, people will be better off. In case you lot haven't noticed, where you have a good museum, the price of real estate is high.

I visited the Louvre branch in Abu Dhabi a few weeks after it opened, and in that location were long lines of people waiting to get in. But once I was within, I noticed that almost people were spending only a few seconds looking at each artwork. They are paying for museum tickets merely once they're in, they're mostly interested in taking pictures and selfies and posting them on social media. When fine art has blown upwardly into such a trend-chimera, is gild, in general, gaining any intellectual value from it?

Yes, I take observed the same thing, but I must contradict you lot a little flake in that the reality is that the Louvre Abu Dhabi is then huge that if you lot spent several minutes on each artwork and read all of the accompanying texts, you would accept to spend several days there. It is most impossible. What is interesting is that even if you spend simply a few seconds on each work, yous educate your eyes; your brain is skilful at collecting and managing a lot of information. Art is also nigh emotion; you lot may wait at ten m things and not react, then at one point, there's one where you say: Oh...my...God. I am sure yous have experienced this kind of moment in front of an art object. So, these people are getting something out of it – they get at least some familiarity with the collections, they see the splendid architecture of the institution itself.With the Louvre Abu Dhabi collection, you have this mega cultural infrastructure that spans centuries and that mixes three civilisations: Asia, the Heart East and the Western world. It is enlightening, specially in a region where in that location are known tensions.  Information technology shows the importance of culture to a country considering it is not just a purely cultural initiative but also a sort of soft-ability tool. It affects the brand of the UAE positively by putting several plus signs next to information technology; people want to go there for more than just the beaches at present, and if they continue with the Guggenheim and then on, this modest slice of state could potentially become a true cultural destination.

Practise you think it was wise for them to pay 450 million for da Vinci'south Salvator Mundi?

450 million is a lot, but if y'all expect at the numbers, how many people are going to come up to the UAE only to see this painting? If yous look at any museum, they all have some iconic works – they normally provide visitors with a small catalogue of x must-see objects. In terms of people spending but a few seconds on each work, they volition at to the lowest degree become see the works listed in the catalogue, and these will become the brand of an institution. I remember that for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, this kind of a painting volition definitely attract a lot of people.

If y'all await at purely the fiscal aspects, i.e. without taking into business relationship the ripple effects, how much is a painting like that worth – peradventure 100 million? I don't know. Just if you expect at the commercial touch on, the marketing impact of a global campaign – this could help attract an additional one or ii million visitors a year, and then add together to that the additional revenues for planes, restaurants, hotels and so on. How much does it cost to elevate your level of soft-power? If yous combine all of these elements, is it cheap? Is information technology expensive?

What I find interesting is the way it opens upwards a new dimension of how we look at civilization. An iconic fine art object can create many other benefits. How do you value them? That is the amount that y'all are willing to pay for it. Could this inflate the prices of other iconic works? Maybe. The price has to include all of these dissimilar elements and the total impact that it is going to create. How much would it toll to achieve the aforementioned without this iconic work? Look at whatsoever marketing campaign – they all evaluate the returns in terms of images, printing coverage, whatever. And I call up that culture is too a part of that. Look at the dimension that the country or region or urban center level that we accept to consider.   It is important to sympathise that culture is non simply nigh educating the masses. It should impact society locally but too internationally. This is why information technology needs to be created well and managed well. [...] Sometimes I wonder why certain countries who take this kind of a earth heritage don't try to manage it in a more than active and dynamic fashion to leverage it in the best possible way. They only surf on the wave of having it and presume that people will come. We need to move away from the role of pure conservator to that of a more active manager of cultural assets. You can get much more benefit for your country and for your people. The more people you take coming in, spending more time in that location, the more jobs you can create. A difficulty is that we often tend to be very short-term oriented, only culture has long-term benefits that have time to be generated. A museum is not but about restaurants, ticketing and shops. It is much more that; it needs to be properly managed and people need to sympathise that. My recommendation to museum directors is to speak that language, to become across the value that they are creating – not just economic value, but likewise social value. We take tools to do that. And that volition also help them attract fiscal investors because if yous're an investor, yous may want to give a gift, but y'all desire to be certain that the money you requite is going to be well spent. An investor may have x options in front of them, and that is why cultural institutions must develop these types of elements that explain how the coin is going to be spent, what is the touch on that is going to be created, and how this is going to be measured. This will make it easier for investors to select what to invest in among the many choices out there.

Cultural investment is at a crossroads where there is a kind of 'competition' going on between private and public museums [...] but there is also a heart footing – a public and private partnership. There is also competition among countries and cities, for instance, in Espana there'south Barcelona, Bilbao, Malaga...look how many new museums have been built in Malaga in recent years – five or vi at least, and they're good cultural offerings. Nosotros talk well-nigh the 'Guggenheim effect' in Bilbao, but when you expect at the visitor numbers in Bilbao compared to Malaga, they are approximately the same, and this is thanks to civilization. Cities, countries and regions have to pay attention to this because there is 'contest' (not an aggressive kind) going on betwixt them involving real estate, airlines, hotels, shops, etc. – nosotros have to look at the big picture.

The responsibility of the collector likewise has quite an impact, peculiarly on the marketplace; in some countries, collectors are more powerful than museum directors in this sense.

This is a very adept bespeak. If a collector wants to burn their entire drove, they are free to do that. There is nothing forcing a collector to be socially responsible.

What is surprising is that many collectors don't have a programme regarding what is going to happen to their collection when they die. Statistically, they tend to pass it on to the family unit; some have their own foundations. In the past, many private collections were eventually given to institutions, but not anymore. Museums may not have plenty walls to ensure that the works will exist permanently on view…

It costs a lot to go on and show works…

And for many other reasons. If a collector wishes to be socially responsible, it'southward up to them.

This recent growth in involvement in art has also led to other tangential businesses, such as storage facilities – studies bear witness that eighty% of all fine art that has been bought is in storage; which ways it is not being seen past anyone. There are also cases when fine art is bought without being seen in person, just through JPG images, and one time bought, it goes directly into storage.

Yes, today we absolutely demand storage. There aren't enough walls, and the quantity of art is constantly increasing. It is simply the fact of the matter. And it needs to be stored in good conditions; nosotros need quality storage facilities. Information technology is non always the case that the fact that something is in storage is the reason that information technology tin can't be exhibited. Most collectors, public or individual, look at their collections. It is a misconception that they don't. The number of people who buy fine art purely for investment purposes and go along it in storage continually is very limited. Storage is needed, and only because something is in storage does not mean that it is not going to be exhibited.

Thanks to engineering science, all of these artworks that are in storage can now be made accessible. Everything can be digitalised and offered online. This is fantastic – we have this mega library of objects. Today's applied science allows for such loftier-resolution images and screens that through digital methods, nosotros can run across the fine art even better than with the naked eye. And with a click of a push, you tin can sit down in your dwelling house and go from antiquity to modern...it's a completely new style in which you tin enjoy your fine art.

Six to eight pct of all art market transactions have place online now, and that number will increase. Information technology used to be that if yous were in the USA, and wished to buy a piece of art that is in Europe, y'all had to deal with sending photos and letters through the mail. Now you lot tin do everything from your dwelling: share images, look at the piece from all angles, zoom in and zoom out, even come across what it will expect similar on your wall. Of course, if information technology is a very expensive object, yous will either become see information technology yourself or send someone to practice that for you. With any transaction that takes place online, you have ii weeks in which you lot can reverse information technology. It's like with shoes – why would someone purchase shoes online if they didn't take the possibility to send them back if they don't fit? If you lot put the artwork up on your wall and you don't like it, transport it back. It'south a new way in which we interact with the fine art marketplace. It is likewise at present possible to lease art objects. You can have them on your walls for one or ii months, and if in that location's one you like in particular, you can purchase it.

It well-nigh sounds as if art has get just another commodity, like shoes.

Non really. What they now have in common is the flexibility in acquiring them. […] It's another mode in which one can engage in the art market. If we can make it easier for people to approach art, then that is a good thing. If you want to put up a poster of an artist's work on your wall, technology will also brand things like copyright issues easier to handle, and the creative person volition receive proper compensation; parallels tin be fatigued to the online music industry.

It is not always piece of cake for an creative person to make a living – we should not forget that that is their task. Being an artist is a professional person task, and it should be managed in that way. I am not proverb that being an artist is the same thing as being a plumber, simply they however do need the same things – a place to live, a style to support themselves and a family unit. In the end, an artist must sell their art objects – it is important to the artist and to the galleries; they are traders who must sell. Artist should accept managers just like musicians do – an intermediary for the artist who can do all the administrative work and ensure that the artist gets the highest returns possible.

When speaking with art historians, critics or art theorists, the discipline of money is always a tricky one to approach. It is not considered good gustation to bring information technology up.

Admittedly, I empathise. 'We should not mix art with money' is something that we hear a lot. Although at that place are some regions that accept no issue at all to discuss the two together. When we talk about investment, that'due south something different. For an artist, for a gallery, it's of import to talk about the chief market and the secondary market. Practice people think that auction houses don't talk about money? Money is involved. Information technology will always exist like that. It is normal that a painting that has importance in fine art history will increase in value over fourth dimension. This benefits the entire value chain equally well. Artists hope that their piece of work will increase in value over time, as exercise galleries and sale houses. Are they then automatically investors, speculators? Let's be realistic and honest – money is involved, and it is in the interest of every i of those players to have prices increase.

Do you retrieve at that place is a scarlet line in terms of the price of a single piece of art, ane that will not be crossed?

I don't have a crystal ball; I cannot say. Await at other sectors, such equally real estate. I live in Luxembourg, where prices are really high. People continue proverb they tin can't get upwardly much more than, they just tin't. But they do. Information technology'southward a question of rarity. When you have something that is very rare, and the number of people interested in information technology continues to rise, information technology becomes iconic. Its value becomes the toll that y'all are willing to pay for it. If someone wants to pay ane billion for this Leonardo tomorrow, no one can prevent that from happening. No one thought that it would go every bit high as 450 million [which includes a 50 1000000 buyer's premium – ed.]. Practise y'all know how the last seconds of the sale played out? The terminal jump was very large [from 370 to 400 meg – ed.]; the buyer was very sure that they wanted it and they were willing to brand a huge jump to make sure that they got it. This was a very exceptional case, of course. I doubt that another painting volition fetch this much in the nigh future; indeed, very far from it. Ane must exist very very rich – it'due south non just individual people here, it's institutions, countries – and there's much more at play here than but decorating the walls. The dimensions hither vastly increase in number with all of the elements involved – with the cultural value, the number of visitors coming, the soft-power attribute – the ultimate value can all be explained.

In your presentation, you mentioned the case of the Picasso painting Buste de mousquetaire (1968), which in April 2018 was bought at auction by 25,000 people as a group from the Swiss online crowd-funding site QoQa. You said that art transactions of this nature will increase. Why is that?

In crowd funding, traditionally the community pools and gives their money for a cultural gain, merely they don't own anything. In this case, everyone who put up money now owns something. What is interesting is that it really works – they did it. And it was not a company that was in the art business. Would you invest 51 dollars to be able to say that you lot own a share of a Picasso painting?

It seems like a thing to do for the sake of a funny experience (chuckles).

Aye, it is funny. Information technology's engaging, you're part of a oversupply, it'due south fun. When you go to whatsoever museum, y'all pay for a ticket and in that way you are subsidising the art. One of the big issues in investing in art is how to evaluate the risk involved. This is a new phenomenon. Investment in art is not a new topic; it may accept been limited, but it has existed for a very long time. But now, thanks to technology, it is something that a large number of people tin can participate in. Based on my intuition, but also on certain numbers from finance, I believe there is an interest to accept financial exposure of art objects. At that place is a demand for that. No ane has been able to brand this happen, however. But now with blockchain, and the ability to trace financial transactions with blockchain, it is possible to match information with a physical object.

In that location are a certain number of initiatives that are moving in this direction. Let's commencement with digital art objects. One of the big bug is that information technology can be easily disseminated to everybody; in that location is no scarcity with a digital art object. Just with blockchain, we can now say that the original code is this i, and this is the entity that owns it. Now we tin can easily organise a market around digital art objects. The question is how do yous create liquidity effectually information technology; that is i of the issues that remains to be solved.

What is interesting is that what is happening at present is not something that I've seen before. I'chiliad not proverb that I've seen everything, far from information technology. But these initiatives around blockchain and fractional investment offer the possibility for larger numbers of people to access the art market. Seeing the number of people who are working on this, it is going to happen. I don't know when it's going to really accept off – in two years or 3 years – but it will happen. I don't see how it cannot happen. The engineering is there, the demand is there. There are other issues to solve, even regulation – and thanks to blockchain, that'southward cumbersome.

People tin can have diverse motivations to practise this. It can be well-nigh investment, to be part of a partnership in which you are a co-owner, just you can also do it without a thought of e'er selling or monetising it – you are doing it to be function of a social investment. That is an interesting dynamic. Will there be cases in which the government owns 51% of the shares [of an art establishment] and then that nothing drastic takes identify, but the remaining shares are owned by the public, just so that the regime tin can use its money for other social needs such as doctors, schools and so on? Is something like this believable? It is an open up question, and an interesting fence. Some people may be against information technology, simply will the bulk be against it? It is a way that the public can be involved in cultural management.

Financial resources are necessary for cultural direction. Take the case of the Rio museum – xc% of it is gone. Artifacts that were thousands of years quondam – impossible to find again, and now gone forever. It was a case of lack of funds for proper management, apparently. So the offset task is to maintain, and then to develop.

Could we take a model in which the ownership of a collection/museum is shared and there is a marketplace where shares can be sold and bought, and shareholders have access to the museum? This would then cover the funds necessary to maintain and secure the museum. Is this a silly idea? Could citizens, could the Minister of Civilization, take such a model? These are new territories. I'grand not saying information technology should be similar that, but I am opening dialogue to the possibility. I think this could be some other fashion to manage civilization and to protect cultural heritage.

Time will tell.

Nosotros accept to open our minds to alternatives and be creative. […] Retrieve when the Louvre rented/franchised its proper name to the museum in Abu Dhabi? In that location were heated discussions in France about what we should do with these funds: they sold the proper name, merely they are at present sitting on a 500-meg-dollar endowment fund, and with this they can back up the running of the museum. Another example is the Van Gogh Museum and the professional services that they offer. They have noesis and experience on how to restore, how to transport, how to put on an exhibition. Running the museum itself is, of course, every museum's first objective, simply would other museums consider monetising this noesis, like the Van Gogh Museum has? They could offer their services to wealthy collectors who don't know how to organise an exhibition, how to execute it, etc. This fashion, the collector gets high-quality professionals to practise information technology for them; the services are paid for, of course, and the collector will get to collaborate with the institution and, later, may even become a patron of this institution. Why should other public institutions not consider such a model as well? Possibly public institutions could open upward their services to private corporate institutions that have big collections. The public cultural sector is suffering from a lack of funding, and nosotros demand to find alternatives. Nosotros need to come up up with new solutions.

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