Creative Legacies: Artists' Estates and Foundations, Hardcover

Creative Legacies is an in-depth guide to practical, legal, and financial considerations and best-practice for artists' estates. Beyond simply offering advice for effective legacy management, the book seeks a nuanced investigation of specific topics relevant to artists' legacy.

What is an artist's legacy? Should artists' estates be maintained in perpetuity or permitted to sunset? How do younger artists engage with estate planning today? How do we ensure the legacies of jewelers, architects, and artists working with ephemeral materials or whose work is entirely site-specific? For all artists and their estates, art-market professionals and students of the art market, Creative Legacies offers vital answers to these fascinating and often complex questions of artistic legacy.

About author(s):Dr. Kathy Battista is Director Emirata of MA Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York as well as a practicing curator and writer. Her publications include New York New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice and Renegotiating the Body: Feminist Art in 1970s London. Bryan Faller is a financial adviser specializing in the primary Contemporary markets and secondary Impressionist, Modern, and Contemporary art markets. He is faculty of Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York, teaching on the MA in Art Business.