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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

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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

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  1. ^ a b Tarmy, James (15 July 2014). "The Problem With Selling the Largest Private Art Collection in the World". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on Apr 30, 2017.
  2. ^ "Online Art Appraisal in 72 hours". MutualArt. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  3. ^ "Art Market Analysis". MutualArt. Archived from the original on 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  4. ^ Pender, Kathleen (28 May 2004). "Pension fund for artists". SFGATE. Archived from the original on Oct 11, 2016.
  5. ^ Kaufman, Jason Edward (Aug 17, 2004). "A Pension Scheme For Artists". Forbes. The Art Newspaper. Archived from the original on Oct 10, 2017.
  6. ^ "Art for money's sake". The Economist. 27 May 2004. Archived from the original on Oct 1, 2020.
  7. ^ Howe, Jeff (Apr 1, 2005). "Paint by Numbers". Wired. Archived from the original on Jan 27, 2024.
  8. ^ Mar, Alex (November 2004). "Alex Mar on the Artist Pension Trust". Artforum. Vol. 43, no. 3. Archived from the original on Jan 10, 2024.
  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. Archived from the original on 24 Mar 2024.
  11. ^ Sittenfeld, Linda R. (29 April 2008). "Web Site Offers Artistic Approach to Investing". CNBC. Archived from the original on Oct 28, 2020.
  12. ^ a b Shaughnessy, Haydn (10 March 2008). "Return of the portal". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on Mar 3, 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  13. ^ "The Artist Pension Trust Merges with MutualArt.com". Artforum. December 5, 2016. Archived from the original on Nov 23, 2020.
  14. ^ Gerlis, Melanie (December 2, 2016). "The Art Market: Miami sales and a 'shopping channel' for art". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 2 Apr 2022.
  15. ^ Kinsella, Eileen (19 April 2017). "Nervous Artists Yank Work From Sotheby's Sale". artnet News. Archived from the original on Apr 19, 2017.
  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. Archived from the original on Feb 20, 2024.
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