Author is the director of the Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea. The gallery has 7,000+ followers on Facebook. The gallery's exhibitions have been reviewed in the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, and Art on Paper.
An estimated $65 billion in art exchanged hands in 2014; the European Fine Art Foundation estimated that in 2014, 2.8 million people were employed globally by dealers, galleries, auction houses, and ancillary service providers.
The US art dealers and galleries industry includes about 5,000 establishments (single-location companies or units of multi-location companies). Annual revenue for the industry in 2016 was about $13.5 billion, according to the European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF).
There are an estimated 210,000 working fine artists in the United States.
