Art Guides

Art Guides

Are you looking for a local art guide?
Perhaps you are visiting Miami, Bozeman, Berlin etc...  and looking to find the best art exhibition, museums, or studios.  Or, maybe you reside in Ohio, and want to view new 2022 NYC artworks?

Well you are not alone.  Tens of thousands of people looking for local art every month.    

Google Art Guides

In 2017 my partner and I were looking to invest in a statement piece of art.  In Miami on South Beach, and our pool day rained out.   We began to search Google for art galleries.  

Trusting Google, we set out in our UBER.   Unfortunately,  Google sent us to tourist galleries.  Art Galleries selling overpriced and low quality artworks.  Works that were neither consistent with Miami's Diasporic melting pot, influneces or the crisp contemporary aesthetic of Miami based artists.

What we found, tourist nonsense from artists with no connection to Miami, aside from the art gallery franchise selling their works...

On the next page, we are going to discuss "Art Tourism," vs "Tourist Art."  

NEXT Art tourism vs Tourist art. CLICK HERE

Tourism art vs Art Tourism 

Art tourism is a big business!  

Europeans travel to NYC, Miami, etc to view and invest in contemporary art.  
Americans fly to Europe to view Renaissance art.  

Art tourism is big business!  People with disposable income viewing and investing, while traveling.    

In Miami, there is an estimated 5-10,000 monthly art searches.   Many have cash in hand, and ready to buy.  

And if you are not on Google's first page, meeting these prospective collectors, than you are losing out.  

Tourist Trap Art Galleries

In big cities like Miami, Los Angeles, NYC,   (lesser)art galleries are targeting travelers through Google. Usually they have multiple locations.  Their artists have no connection to the city.  The works sold do not represent the aesthetic of the city.  

And tourist trap art galleries ALWAYS dominate Google.  Their gallery is catching all the traffic on Google, andmeeting all the collectors, thus they have the budget to dominate Google.  

And this is a problem.  Top artists and galleries are losing collectors and revenue. 

BUT WORSE.  The cities culture is further being eroded.  Because with every collector who is misinformed about the aesthetic of the city, the culture begins to dwindle, further.  

***  If you are an art gallery, artist, or anyone who taking pride in your cities art programs.  BE AWARE,  the front lines of the culture war are on Google.  

Google is where art tourists are finding the galleries, studios, and museums.  And if you are not first to meet that new collector visiting your city, than its guaranteed the tourist art galleries are winning.  

On the next page, we are discussing emergent versus secondary market art galleries. CLICK HERE

Emergent versus Secondary art  

When it comes to buying art, it is necessary, first and foremost, to understand emergent art versus secondary artworks.   

Emergent art= artworks from a contemporary artist who is usually living and working... dedicating his or her life to creating art.

Secondary art= Art which has been sold before.  Generally artworks sold on "secondary market" means the artist is dead.  Picasso, Miro, Michelangelo, etc.   However, this is not always the case. If a living artist, works are being bought and resold, then the works are re-sold on the secondary market. 

The art gallery guides here at xzib.com are generally focused on helping you find the best EMERGENT art galleries, museums, and exhibitions in major art markets.