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Another Artist’s Agent Tries to Put Together a Client List

January 14, 2016 by Marion Maneker

Andrea Crane
Andrea Crane

W Magazine has a profile of UTA’s Josh Roth, the poster child for new category of agent to artists, but within the story, there’s a quote from Andrea Crane who is trying to build her own roster of artists from within the art world:

“The contemporary model of an artist’s agent is revealing itself,” Andrea Crane, a former director at Gagosian Gallery, told me recently. In addition to acting as a private art dealer, she is the agent of the painter Cecily Brown. (In September, Crane said she was in negotiations to represent several other artists.) With more than 20 years of experience as a gallery liaison working closely with ­museums—“artists are longing for institutional support,” Crane said—she is a bit skeptical of a Hollywood agency jumping on the bandwagon. In fact, in an art market so complicated that its specifics have sub-specificities, Crane prefers to think of herself as a consigliere,

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