Just when galleries are thinking about shutting down, NY dealer Ed Winkleman has announced [via] his forthcoming book, How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery.
It is scheduled to be offered in July by Allworth Press, a publisher of many nuts-and-bolts artworld books that was founded by art-law veteran and artists’ rights advocate Tad Crawford. The original 1977 version of Crawford’s Legal Guide for the Visual Artist (then published by Hawthorn Books but now offered, in revised form, by Allworth) has long resided on my bookshelf and informed my writing.
Winkleman is hoping that Crawford is right in his contrarian view that “now is actually a very good time to get such a book into the market, as now is when people who may want to open a gallery when the market turns up again should begin planning for it.”
But an Allworth-published book more in tune with today’s recessionary market could be Daniel Grant‘s Selling Art Without Galleries.