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Change Agents

In 2019, the articles published in The Point explore new models for operating in the art market. For this issue, we asked Matthias Arndt to discuss the transition from running a gallery to an art agency.

When I started Arndt & Partner Galleries (later Arndt) in the early 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall, I put all my romanticized ideas of working with art aside. While I still believe that art can change the world—through training our

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