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One Art World 
Type Limited Liability Company Industry Art Market Founded 2006 Headquarters New York Key people Jonas Almgren (CEO) Website www.oneartworld.com One Art World is an online service provider for the international art market with headquarters in New York. Prior to July 2009, One Art World was known as chelseaartgalleries.com.
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Business model
One Art World is an information platform for the international fine art market[1][2]. It provides services allowing its users to search and view artist, gallery and exhibition profiles, and to attain auction price data, giving them an effective overview of the art market and enabling them to contact art galleries. The platform caters specifically to art dealers, art professionals, art students and collectors. The services are free to users, while galleries pay a fee to list their exhibitions and inventory.
Services
The primary service of this business is to give users access to up-to-date art market information by providing:
- a calendar of art events such as exhibitions, receptions, and art fairs
- directories of artists, galleries, and art professionals
- listings of artworks for sale by galleries
- information on contemporary art auction results
One Art World maintains its own proprietary databases of the information underlying the above services. The exhibition and inventory databases are maintained by the galleries using self-service interfaces (The Exhibition Manager and The Inventory Manager respectively).
Though this business lists artworks for sale, it does not engage in art dealing, but merely serves as a conduit between the art collector and the art dealer.
History
2006
chelseaartgalleries.com was founded in 2006. The company’s initial service was a gallery database and exhibition calendar for the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City[3]. In November 2006, chelseaartgalleries.com begun to publish auction results from the contemporary art auctions held by the three main auction houses: Sotheby's, Christie's, and Phillips de Pury & Company.
2009
In July 2009, chelseaartgalleries.com changed name to One Art World and expanded to include worldwide coverage of galleries and artists.
Clients
One Art World’s clients include private collectors, galleries, appraisers, museums, auctioneers, art educators, artists, and art students.
Philanthropy
One Art World is supporting not-for-profit (charity) organizations as a media or website sponsor. Organizations included in this program in 2009 include:
- iCI (Independent Curators International) [1]
- ARTWALKNYC (Coalition for the Homeless) [2]
- Aperture Foundation [3]
- Spectrum - Devon & Cornwall Autistic Community Trust [4]
- The Artists Alliance / Alianza de Artistas Inc. [5]
References
External links
- One Art World - Official websites
- Crain's New York Business quotes One Art World
- Press Release: One Art World Subsumes Chelsea Art Galleries
- Crain's New York Business quotes chelseaartgalleries.com
- Le Musee Prive quotes chelseaartgalleries.com
- The Guardian references chelseaartgalleries.com
- USA Today references chelseaartgalleries.com
- CNN Money references chelseaartgalleries.com
- The New York Post references chelseaartgalleries.com
- The Washingtonian references chelseaartgalleries.com
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