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LISTE Art Fair Basel, 2013

The Business of Art

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Aside from the illegal drug market, art is considered the biggest unregulated market in the world. What does it mean that a piece of canvas with paint on it can be sold for the equivalent of a small country’s GDP or that art dealers bid in auctions to drive up the value of the artists whose work they represent?

This is second course in the Why Do We Art?: Exploring the Role Art Plays in Our Lives three session course.

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Congdon Boardroom—Hamilton Building, Lower Level
Ticket required, discount for members and Museum Friends, free for students
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Headshot of Giulia Bernardini, a brown-haired white woman in her thirties

About the Speaker

Giulia Bernardini holds master’s degrees in art history and in museum studies and is a regular guest lecturer on Italian Renaissance and Baroque art as well as the Parisian Belle Époque. She is the founder of Wonderfeast, a boutique art travel company that specializes in unforgettable on-site seminars in her native Europe for small groups of inquisitive art-, food-, and culture-lovers.

Lifelong Learning and Accessibility programs are supported by the William Randolph Hearst Endowment for Education Programs, Nancy Benson Education Endowment Fund, CenturyLink Endowment, Jim Kelley and Amie Knox Education Endowment Fund, and the Cooke-Daniels Fund. Support is also provided by the Michael and Karen Fried Community Education Fund and the residents who support the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD).