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"  For the neophyte collector, the art world can be intimidating. How would you suggest getting started? Go to art fairs. They can be overwhelming, but it&amp;#039;s the easiest way to see a lot of work from different galleries around the world. Even if you&amp;#039;re not ready to buy, see what works appeal to you and what galleries have works that you&amp;#039;re drawn to. You can check out the gallery&amp;#039;s website when you&amp;#039;re back home, look at other artists they show, sign up for their newsletter. A lot of people are scared of galleries, but if you make the first step, they might take you to the back room to show you other artists they&amp;#039;re working with or other artists you might like. If the artist is local, you can go to their space and see their works in person. Studio visits are an amazing way to see where the work comes from and the story behind it. Fairs can be a sensory overload. What are your tactics for navigating that space? If you&amp;#039;re in a city where there are a lot of galleries clustered together in certain neighborhoods, they often have openings all on the same night. Also, I just discovered the Art Forum app, which lists a lot of the openings and shows that are going on in whatever major city you&amp;#039;re in. What is the best way to educate yourself as an art world outsider? Buy magazines. There are a lot of great art-focused magazines like Art Forum, Blouin Artinfo and Modern Painters. Artlog.com, owned by my partner at Grey Area, is another great resource, as well as BlouinArtInfo.com. Once you&amp;#039;ve fallen in love with a piece, there&amp;#039;s the actual sale. Should you plan for a long courting process, or try to avoid buying the first thing you see that you like? Do some research before you buy. See the comparable works and figure out what it is that you&amp;#039;re drawn to. Your taste evolves and it&amp;#039;s good to take your time, because while there&amp;#039;s the instant, guttural, &amp;quot;I love this, I want to live with it,&amp;quot; it never hurts to think about things. There are definitely pieces that I bought early on that I can see my youth in. Okay, but say we know we&amp;#039;re in love and cannot live without this painting. How much should we spend? Set a budget for yourself, and say, &amp;quot;I can afford to spend this amount of money, and anything over this price, I&amp;#039;ll look at and love, but am not walking home with it.&amp;quot; One thing I learned from my mother is to be a good haggler. I&amp;#039;ve had to learn to have an instinct about things and about pricing. You can&amp;#039;t argue too much with a gallery, so you either go for it, or pass. The majority of the works I&amp;#039;m buying are younger artists&amp;#039;, so there aren&amp;#039;t auction numbers to look at, and the prices are better. A favorite thing of mine are silent auctions. I&amp;#039;m a fan of Paddle8.com, an online auction house that often prices pieces much lower than their actual value and the money goes toward a charity. What if you don&amp;#039;t really don&amp;#039;t have that much disposable income at the moment? Places like Invisible-Exports offer an artist of the month club. You can sign up and you get an artwork every month. Another option is to go to sites like artsy.net and artspace.com that offer prints from amazing artists. Our Grey Area site is also a way to buy art at a really affordable price, often because it&amp;#039;s editions or smaller works. Should you purchase your art with an eye to your current interior design scheme? Or is that shortsighted? I think you want to get something because you love it and not because it goes with the wallpaper in your space. It can, and I love it when it does, but you want to make sure this is something that you&amp;#039;ll want beyond the rental. People move, situations change, and everything&amp;#039;s malleable. If it makes you happy, you can afford it, and it&amp;#039;ll bring and beauty to your environment, then do it! Think first, but not too much. For someone who is planning to make an investment in a piece, how do you find something that might appreciate? One way is to talk to the gallerist or the artist and see what&amp;#039;s coming up in their future. Often, a lot of the shows are planned months to years in advance. If there&amp;#039;s about to be a solo show or they&amp;#039;re about to be included in a group show with artists that are more well known artists, that&amp;#039;s a good sign. That being said, it&amp;#039;s really hard to predict who&amp;#039;s going to become a big, bold-faced name and who will get 15 minutes and then be off people&amp;#039;s radar. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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