The 6th annual RAM conference will focus on intermediaries in the art market. This hybrid format conference will provide an opportunity to discover the work of a group of experts in the field, including a series of guidelines in the form of a practical guide. Following their presentation, several intermediaries will implement these guidelines by analysing a practical case study. The conference will also address the sustainability of the art market, exploring possible ways to

In Switzerland, there are numerous artists’ foundations whose purpose is to manage their work, as well as, more generally, foundations involved in the cultural field. Some of them hold copyright which may generate important revenues. However, the holding of such rights by a foundation involves challenges and risks. Indeed, not only do these foundations often act as a gatekeeper to the market of the artist concerned, as abuses can be numerous, but they also carry out multiple

The University of Lausanne is hosting a three day conference on cartoons and digital cultures, focusing on the challenges posed by the digitisation of the creation and communication process of cartoons. The conference will also address the difficulties of communicating graphic satire via the Internet, which is a source of manipulation and misunderstanding. The conference brings together actors of press illustration - artists, publishers, organizers, curators, researchers - to

The main Swiss radio channel in French "RTS" debated on whether artificial intelligence could help in detecting forgeries in the art market. The discussion was initiated by Christiane Hoppe-Oehl, founder of Art Recognition, a company based in Zurich that created an AI system allowing to recognize whether a work of art is genuine compared to other works by the same artist. The AI System purportedly also helps to detect not only fakes but also forgeries, i.e. works that are in