MutualArt.com
Founded2008
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Moti Shniberg
Websitewww.mutualart.com

MutualArt.com is an art information website that provides auction prices, personalized updates and data on a number of artists.[1] MutualArt.com also includes an online art appraisals service.[2] Premium Members have access to the site's Art Market Analysis.[3]

History

MutualArt was founded in 2004 by Moti Shniberg, an Israeli-born technology entrepreneur; David A. Ross, a former director of the Whitney Museum; and Dan Galai, a professor of business at Hebrew University.[1][4][5]

MutualArt acted initially as a holding company for the Artist Pension Trust.[6][7][8] The company's CEO is Zohar  Elhanani.[9]

In 2008 MutualArt launched its online portal, mutualart.com.[10][11] At the time, its web site was reportedly one of the first examples of the Web 2.0 Semantic Web applied to a customer service.[12] The site attempted to link art collectors with artists, museums, galleries and information sources including the art publications, auction house information and prices.[12]

In 2016 the company merged with the Artist Pension Trust[13][14] to form the MutualArt Group.[15][16]

References

  1. 1 2 "The Problem With Selling the Largest Private Art Collection in the World". Bloomberg.com. 15 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Online Art Appraisal in 72 hours on MutualArt". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  3. ↑ "Art Market Analysis on MutualArt". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  4. ↑ Pender, Kathleen (28 May 2004). "Pension fund for artists". SFGATE.
  5. ↑ "A Pension Scheme For Artists". Forbes.
  6. ↑ "Art for money's sake". The Economist. 27 May 2004.
  7. ↑ "Paint by Numbers". Wired.
  8. ↑ "Alex Mar on the Artist Pension Trust". www.artforum.com.
  9. ↑ "An interview with MutualArt CEO Zohar Elhanani". The Art Collector. 2018-03-31. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  10. ↑ Feitelberg, Rosemary (28 December 2007). "A World of Art on the Web". WWD.
  11. ↑ Sittenfeld, Linda R. (29 April 2008). "Web Site Offers Artistic Approach to Investing". CNBC.
  12. 1 2 "Return of the portal". 10 March 2008. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  13. ↑ "Artforum.com". www.artforum.com.
  14. ↑ "The Art Market: Miami sales and a 'shopping channel' for art". www.ft.com.
  15. ↑ Kinsella, Eileen (19 April 2017). "Nervous Artists Yank Work From Sotheby's Sale". artnet News.
  16. ↑ Gleadell, Colin (18 April 2017). "The problem with selling contemporary art at auction: The Artist Pension Trust withdraws 18 lots from Sotheby's". The Telegraph.
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