This new volume in the series of Handbooks in International Art Business published in association with Sotheby's Institute of Art offers a timely guide to the history, nature and importance of corporate collecting and the different reasons for starting and maintaining corporate collections, including investment, cultural cachet, and asset diversification. Based on interviews with the curators, consultants and investors who run such collections, and more extended case studies of important collections, the book concludes with an examination of when corporate collecting becomes a liability and the market-impact of deaccessioning, looking ahead to the future of corporate collecting.

The essential reference to art in the workplace and the corporate art world, the International Directory of Corporate Art Collections is still the only comprehensive reference for corporate art collecting around the world. In continuous publication since 1983, the newly revised and updated 2016-2017 edition features nearly 800 companies through a global tour of art in the workplace.Several million works of art are displayed in businesses and corporations around the world -- nearly as many as in city art museums! Corporations spend millions every year purchasing art, and the total value of all of the art that is on display in the workplace is worth several billion dollars. So the most important patron of the arts during the past 70 years has been ....... not private collectors, government art programs, and not even museums, but corporations. The International Directory of Corporate Art Collections describes which companies have art collections, have commissioned art, developed art education programs, and which corporations have organized or sponsored art exhibitions or loaned art works from their collections.In two sections, the International Directory of Corporate Art Collections highlights art in the workplace from 1) Europe and Asia Pacific, and 2) North and South America. The latest edition is an essential reference for artists, art collectors, museum corporate affairs officers, curators and directors, architects, art galleries, art advisors and consultants, art historians, art appraiser, and lawyers. Information provided for each program includes contact information, description, size of collection, art programs and sponsorships, status of program, and bibliography.

The richly-illustrated publication presents 100 of the finest active corporate collections from all over the world, from different industries and with different artistic focal points - hand-selected by a high-profile advisory board. The ambitious project is supported by AXA ART insurance, Art Finance (Gazprombank Group) and Sotheby's. The book is edited by Friedrich Conzen (Managing Director, Werkladen Conzen Kunst Service, Duesseldorf), Max Hollein (Director, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frank- furt/Main) and Olaf Sali� (Managing Director, Deutsche Standards, Cologne). Chief copy-editor is G�rard A. Goodrow (Free-lance author and curator, former Director Art Cologne). "Global Corporate Collections" is the title of a new project announced by German publisher Deutsche Standards. The more than 700-page book was introduced at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2014 and will be presented in print at Art Basel in June 2015: "With the kick-off in Miami we will start working with companies collecting art to prepare an extraordinary compendium without comparison", explains Deutsche Standards publisher Dr. Florian Langenscheidt.

The UBS Art Collection is without doubt one of the most important corporate collections in the world. Dating primarily from the 1960s to today, the works of art in the Collection give an impressive overview of the artistic practice of this period. UBS Art Collection: To Art its Freedom is the first major book on the UBS Art Collection in nearly a decade, presenting a visual essay that captures the essence of the Collection as well as the various impulses that have shaped it across decades and continents.The publication features more than 200 color illustrations offering insights into the history and evolution of the UBS Art Collection. Highlights include: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Roni Horn, Martin Kippenberger, Willem de Kooning, Sol LeWitt, Neo Rauch, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Ruff, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cy Twombly, Erwin Wurm, and many more.

Foreword by Toni Morrison. Text by Dan Cameron, Peter B. Lewis, Toby Devan Lewis, Mark Schwartz.

This volume offers a guide to corporate collecting, examining its history, nature and importance, and the different reasons for starting and maintaining corporate collections.