How's My Dealing? 2.0

Van Gogh Art Gallery in Madrid

February 5, 2022

You will not get the exposure you think you will after paying Van Gogh Art Gallery. I signed my contract in October 2020 and paid the 1,000 Euros for the exhibition at the Art3F art show in Brussels in November 2020. Due to COVID, the Brussels show was postponed many times and actually only took place in November 2021. It is important that you know, once you have given Van Gogh the 1,000 euros, they will not refund your money if the show is cancelled or postponed. What they will do is keep stringing you along with promises of getting…

Virtual Artists

By: anonymous

January 2, 2022

I’m trying to learn if anyone has experience with Virtual Artists, a UK virtual gallery. I’m thinking it is a vanity gallery, but looking for confirmation of that. Thanks

Zürcher Gallery

By: anonymous

January 1, 2022

Gwenolee Zürcher calls herself an advocate for women artists but instead of supporting them she is charging them thousands of dollars to be in group shows to support her gallery space. Ladies, don’t do it. BEWARE!

Does anyone have experience with CAF or contemporary art fairs?

By: anonymous

December 23, 2021

Does anyone have any experience of working with Contemporary Art Fairs? Their website is Does anyone have experience with CAF or contemporaryartfairs.co.uk

Is it legal for a Gallery (or artist) to create new versions of older limited edition serigraphs ?

By: anonymous

December 20, 2021

An art Gallery in Quebec I follow is selling new pieces (serigraphs) of artwork with very low numbers, i.e. 10/13. However, my parents have owned one of the exact same pieces for 18 years with a 114 /125 number? Is it legah/ethical to create new version of a pieice of art? That would seem to devalue the pices already owned.

NYC Artwalk

By: anonymous

November 19, 2021

an “art fair” where an organization that claims in it’s own words “is not affiliated with any art collectives nor artist-run organizations” contacts artists via instagram to apply to be displayed at their various exhibition locations. The exhibitions that artists pay for are posters pasted up against scaffolding and the outside border of outdoor dining areas – so in some places, the middle of the street. They target people who are not able to actually see the work in person, i.e international artists from Kenya, etc. Usually these take place nearby where a legitimate art fair is going on. So…

Worldwide publications

By: anonymous

November 8, 2021

I picked up 3 books which were being given away at no charge on a gallery table in a prime spot at ARTExpo NYC. I saw many fairgoers walk by my booth with the books. Layout and printing were great so I spoke with the curator of the books. She was upfront about prices and deadlines. This is a legit pay to publish company which gives out the books at major art fairs.

EMERGING ARTIST PLATFROM

By: anonymous

October 30, 2021

Run away from them. This a big fraud; They charge you the annual fees, and then don’t comply with the promised services, they stop answering your emails. Then, they charge you again the following year even if you have canceled your subscription. Their website is empty : you can’t find cancellation policy, no Terms and Conditions. Phone number is not working. Many very bad experiences are posted by disappointed artists as comments to the pictures in the EAP Instagram. RUN AWAY

Photographers should think twice about entering LensCulture

By: anonymous

October 11, 2021

This Dutch-based organisation, lensculture.com, run by an American guy in Amsterdam, try to claim to some heavyweight affiliations — I was suckered in by their mention of Magnum, FOAM, and The Guardian — which they have little if anything to do with — and dealing with them was not good. After they pocket your initial fee, their so-called “expert” practitioner “1:1 Reviews” feedback seemed like it had been cut and pasted; it directly contradicted information I’d provided in the bio, showing they didn’t read anything I’d written. I’m not alone in that, it seems, from what I’ve read elsewhere on…

Dab Art Company has posted one of my photographs for sale for $600 without my knowledge or permission.

By: anonymous

September 19, 2021

Dab Art Company has posted one of my photographs for sale for $600 without my knowledge or permission. To top that, they have stated on their website with my image that they can provide a Certificate of Authenticity for the work. Ha! This is a highly illegal operation. They obtained the work either by taking it off of Instagram or Facebook. This particular image is not on my website and has never been. Beware

Holy Art Gallery?

can you provide evidence for that? you are the first person in many many posts on this gallery to have said anything about sales, so it would help if you could show us evidence of that please...

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Hi Anonymous, who commented on January 2, 2025 at 11:10 am. We will believe you if you prove your claim. Start by stating your name. Otherwise, what you are telling is a fairy tale and not true....

PAKS Gallery and MAMAG Museum invite to exhibit at Cannes Film Festival, Art Basel Week and Carrousel du Louvre

THanks for these helpful responses. It's disappointing, but I'm glad to know....

Hey! Im an artist who recently sold £1900 worth of art with them and I will be going back!...

Galería Azur Madrid: vanity gallery

They prey on vain people who have no understanding of how the art world works. Renee Phillips writes on her blog: As one art critic said to me, “When I see a vanity gallery listed on an artist’s resume, I know they paid to have their ego stroked.” https://renee-phillips.com/vanity-galleries/...

They've contacted me too. What's worse is that artists such as Zelda_Cavanaugh on Instagram help promote this obvious pay-to-play scam. Preying on young artists....

Divulgarti group

The first red flag is that they contact you very close to the start of the exhibition, for example in October, when the opening is already in November. It might be worth contacting artists who have already shown their art in the gallery. Some of them praise the gallery effusively because they don't understand that they have been scammed, some tell the truth and some don't respond because they are ashamed. It is worth thinking...

Contemporary Art Curator (Magazine)

Oh Marta, it's you who has to provide the names and other details of your success stories. Us skeptics don't have to prove anything. Scammers always project, as you constantly do. Put your money where your mouth is!...

To Anonymous who commented on October 28, 2024 at 9:09 pm: Hey Anonymous! And who are you? You’re slagging me off anonymously like a scared little coward. How much money do you make with your fake gallery, you wimpy grifter?...

Thierry Goldberg Gallery does not pay his MFA artists

Also he’s a terrible person in general! Showed with him years ago and he was awful to work with. I came and picked up my own work as I knew getting it back would be a nightmare....

Arctic Circle Residency

Very weird! Be careful! I was accepted to the program, and was looking for some more details on the Jury and the company behind the Arctic Circle. I turns out, there is NONE. It's all Aaron O'Connor. I researched, and could not find phone number at first, nor business license, really not anything. Somehow I found a number, called and it was a voice mail box of Aaron, the director. I I didn't leave...

PAKS Gallery, Vienna/other locations

I have been getting the same invitations. We students in art schools, years ago were warned about vanity galleries. I will finally unsubscribe from there solicitations....

Dab Art now Cheating Artists in LA

Clearly it is Yessica. That is the tone she uses when she is trying to gaslight others....

Dear Anonymous, Thank you for reaching out. However, upon reviewing your comment, we noticed discrepancies in the timeline you provided—mentioning "lately" and "a couple of weeks" later, which don’t align. This inconsistency, along with the nature of the claims, strongly suggests that the comment may be fabricated. Also information provided do not align with our practices. As an online magazine, we specialize in digital content and do not offer any form of physical exposure or representation. We take...

ITSLIQUID GROUP

ITSLIQUID Group has reached out to me to place 2 of my artworks in their 2025 show with a deadline for acceptance of 8 days. Sounds like a vanity gallery scam. I looked at some of the artwork they displayed over the past 5 years……..some are skilful but some are truly terrible amateur rubbish. It’s a scam....

Saphira & Ventura

Horrible! They don’t do anything good to artist! Wasting money...

I have bad experience with SV !...

Derivative artworks, poor events. They only care about money, milking aspiring artists hoping to be featured and make a sale. The company should not be called Holy Art at all as they dont care about Art. Should be renamed as Holy Sh. Founders cannot even be considered as artists. A Photographer who has mediocre skill without an award in his belt. The rest what? There are other businesses like this in Athens with similar style of...

i so appreciate your posts as I've been approached but didn't trust the message...

Roy’s Art Fair – A complete waste of time and money

Bargehouse is a horrible venue. That artfair is very low quality...

Lichtundfire in NYC

Yesterday I was contacted by Claudio Giulianelli via Linkedin to participate at the Vernice art fair in Forli. Since I was reading this comment I would like to know more details about the experience exhibiting here? Please be so kind to contact me pattwolf@me.com...

As an artist with a 40+ year practice, these phishermen, like Playner disgust me, as do those scammers who try to "buy" artworks that they urge you to convert to NFT's. If they BELIEVE in your work, and have the foundation of real transparent support for the creative makers, NOT the short term profit,NOT the superficial photos proving his being a slave to the ego-driven cult of celebrity, then their entreaties to...

Art box project

My work has been exhibited on the screen of Miami 23 with the Artbox project And then I took part with them in Venice. And Basel. These are the lines in the CV I had no sales...

Thanks for the warning! It save many artists from frauds...

Studio Visit Magazine

1. Company says” they’re too busy to answer questions , so let the buyer beware” 2. Their email is spelled incorrectly- (stuidiomagazine) so don’t expect a response 3. Call the gallery at the same address and complain. You’ll get a better response 4. It’s a scam...

Greenhouse Gallery – Walter aka“Dub” Wagnon aka WC Wagnon

That's just the tip of the iceberg with him....

Venice International Art Fair?

I was almost caught by this. I don’t think this is a real fair and I’m not sending money or art. It’s pretty tricky but there are half dozen signs that indicate it not real....

Artifact Gallery

Hahaha hello Mr. Martin Bernstein....

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How's My Dealing? 2.0

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Van Gogh Art Gallery in Madrid

Virtual Artists

Zürcher Gallery

Does anyone have experience with CAF or contemporary art fairs?

Is it legal for a Gallery (or artist) to create new versions of older limited edition serigraphs ?

NYC Artwalk

Worldwide publications

EMERGING ARTIST PLATFROM

Photographers should think twice about entering LensCulture

Dab Art Company has posted one of my photographs for sale for $600 without my knowledge or permission.