June 2024: Featured in Spear’s Magazine selection of Outstanding Art Advisers 2024

Spear’s Review

“Art Partners Advisory founder Hailey Widrig works with a mix of family offices and private collectors, and does ‘quite a bit of consulting with finance firms and investment companies wanting to invest in the market in various capacities’, she told Spear’s.

Widrig has a background in private equity but moved into the art world when she started working with a London-based family office. Now based in Paris, she offers art appraisals and valuations, including valuations under the American tax system.”

June 2024: A written contribution for The Association of Professional Art Advisors Top Picks from Art Basel 2024

Edouard Merino, Insight, 1989

"The ‘Insights’ series by Philippe Thomas provides clues about the activity of his agency, ‘readymades belong to everyone®’, launched in 1987 at Cable Gallery in New York and active until his passing in 1995. The agency offered a service which enabled collectors to affix their name to any artwork they purchased from the agency. While operating within framework of the art market, Thomas subverted the commercial system to play with ideas around authorship and reality.

This work, ‘Insight’, signed by his alias Edouard Merino, offers rare proof of Thomas’ presence in this game of art history hide and seek and recalls the philosophy of fellow artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Marcel Broodthaers, who also disrupted the art world from within. A great opportunity to purchase a historically important work from one of the best galleries for Conceptual Art."

January 2024: A written article for Sky Blue Review on the innovative tapestry collaboration between Aubusson studio Robert Four and contemporary artist Laurent Grasso.

The limited edition publication is available via KD Presse and other fine bookshops.

February 2024: A written contribution for Frieze Los Angeles “Association of Professional Art Advisors’ Top 10 Picks from Frieze Los Angeles Viewing Room 2024”

“Louise Lawler is one of the most important conceptual artists of our time but not one to seek the spotlight. Discreet, poetic and often witty, she plays within and against the art world to question our concepts of value, politics of the art market and those of society more broadly. It hurts is a perfect example: Lawler often makes photographs of other artists’ work in various settings and stages of progress through their lifecycle. Here she captures Jenny Holzer’s “Redaction Painting” series which represents declassified documents on the American government’s activity; the title sets the tone for the emotional context. Holzer’s works were ready to be installed for their dual exhibition in Paris at Yvon Lambert Gallery, which was at the forefront of contemporary art in Paris for decades. On a technical note, the silver-dye bleach printing technique used for the print produces beautifully rich and, importantly, very stable images, avoiding the conservation issues of other photographic techniques.” Hailey Widrig