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How's My Dealing? 2.0

Worldwide Reviews by Artists for Artists of Galleries, Art Fairs, Mail Scams and more.
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Jerry Saltz Scam

I follow and have personally met the Pulitzer Prize winning art critic Jerry Saltz. I have gotten two emails from “him” trying to coerce me into a scam. These emails are not from him. He is not offering a “mentorship program!” Here’s the second email: “ 1. Private Art Exhibition Call for Artists I’m curating an upcoming private art exhibition and inviting 20 talented artists to showcase their work. We’ll be reaching out to 30 candidates, with priority given to the first 20 who respond. If you’re interested, please reply as soon as possible. Check your email within the next…

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Makowski Gallery New York City

They contacted me and offered representation in NY – The agreement they sent is very expensive and I saw that they just got to NY… I understand that this Makowski gallery is a vanity gallery but I might be willing to do this because I really need to have an exhibition in New York City, not to tell that I had it but more to invite many people from New York that are following me… I was going to do this but I now start wondering if it really makes sense and looked again on their Instagram page… they have…

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Vedica Art Gallery, Mumbai, India

Vedica Art Gallery´s business model is unsustainable, at least from the point of view of the artist. They live on the very high annual fees, which they ask artists, who want to be represented by them. They are more interested in acquiring new artist then new business contacts to other galleries. I terminated my collaboration with them after one year and received not all of my artworks back, which the gallery had in their possession. 8 artworks are still in their hands and i suppose, they sold them to a collector and they are not willing to pay my share,…

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NFT Collectors

I get almost daily requests from so called NFT collectors. People who shower you me with praise of my art. They want to buy several of my works. My question; Is there anything as a legit and honest transaction/purchase of art as NFT? I get warnings of money laundry and scam from a lot of people. Has anyone any experience of a succesfull relationship with an NFT collector?

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Art box project

Received an email from Art Box project promoting participation in the Miami art Basel week in the Winwood area. Anyone had any dealings with Art Box Project or Miami art Basel week?

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Context art gallery, Venice. AKA Marco Patrizio

I have recently been scammed by Marco Patrizio, running context art gallery in Venice, Italy. He asked for money (to cover exhibition costs and framing) in return for representing me. I sent two large pieces of art which i sell for around £1000 each. Since sending the funds and works I’ve had no further dealings with him – he’s clearly blocked me, not responding to emails, or message replies. It’s only now i understand he is a regular scammer – this time contacting me through instagram via Context Art Gallery. I accept i lost my money (more fool me) but…

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Lichtundfire in NYC

I was contacted by the director via my website to participate in a themed group show. The curatorial statement aligned with my work so I was excited to get more information, but noticed in the fine print that they did ask for a financial contribution from the artist. The show was also in the very near future, which seemed strange. After I expressed interest, I was told that I would need to give the gallery almost $1,000 to participate, as well as a 60/40 split (artist/gallery). I shared my discomfort with this, at which point the messages became more desperate…

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AC Contemporary – Latin Art

I was in talks with this gallery about exhibiting with them at Art on Paper in NY. They presented an offer of charging me $1400 + shipping for 1 lineal meter of space in their booth. I had never worked with them before so I researched by talking with previous artists who has been in that fair with them. I was told by 2 artists that this gallery didn’t had a real gallery space outside of art fairs; that they went to these fairs by charging the artists, that they had gotten their pieces broken, bad presented and they had…

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NFT scam mintbot.art

I already posted about another nft scam, but this is a similar scam. There are several fake accounts on Instagram that approach artists and ask them to sell their art as nfts. They insist using fake nft sites like mintbot.art. It’s a scam to make artists pay for gas fees. Because they are not real nft sites, you can’t really sell your art there. So you will lose your money. This is just one of many scam sites, so be aware. If you have to register to the site to see any art or buyers, then it’s most likely a…

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