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ArtGallery and the art of buying without a raised eyebrow
A price tag, three photographs and a way to change your mind. Inside the online gallery that turns buying original art into a more ordinary transaction - and charges artists 35% to make it happen.
Fair Warning
Fair Warning is a New York-based, members-only art auction platform founded in 2020 by Loic Gouzer, the former Chairman of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie's. Rather than staging sprawling sales, Fair Warning sells one carefully chosen lot at a time to a screened community of collectors through its mobile app, where bidding happens with a swipe. The company positions itself as a leaner, more transparent alternative to legacy auction houses, charging a flat 15% buyer's premium and building a catalogue around artists it has conviction about.
TRLab
TRLab is an art-and-technology company that fuses Web3 tools with fine-art expertise to reinvent how people learn about, experience, and collect art. Co-founded in 2021 by Christie's non-executive Deputy Chairman Xin Li-Cohen and CEO Audrey Ou, the platform builds education-driven, interactive collecting journeys with major artists, estates and institutions - including the Calder Foundation, the Chris Burden Estate, Cai Guo-Qiang, Vogue and digital-art organization Rhizome. It has raised roughly $9.2M total, and more recently has begun extending its creative IP into lifestyle goods and immersive experiences.
20x200 | Jen Bekman Projects
20x200 is a New York-based e-commerce company founded in 2007 by gallerist Jen Bekman to make art collecting accessible to everyone. It sells curated, limited-edition, museum-quality prints and photography by emerging, established and legendary artists, with prices historically starting at $20 (now from $35). The name comes from its original formula: the smallest size of each work printed in an edition of 200 and sold for $20. Part of Jen Bekman Projects, which also ran the Jen Bekman Gallery and the Hey, Hot Shot! photography competition.