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Galleries & the Art Market

How work reaches buyers — galleries and dealers, art fairs and auctions, the secondary market, and the people who make it move.

Art gallery

Art gallery

Art dealer

Art market

Vernissage

Art exhibition

Christie's

Christie's

Sotheby's

Artist-run space

Artist-run space

Collecting

Collecting

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