Yesterday, I wrote about how Anna lost a painting following a local art show. Since then, we've heard from several people telling us of similar experiences at the same venue. One person who had worked at Tatame for a while told us that it was common practice amongst staff there to take a piece they liked and tell the artists it had been stolen by patrons. On other occasions, if art wasn't collected immediately it was removed from the walls, the staff assumed it was abandoned and helped themselves to it. Of course, the artists never got compensated for their stolen work.
I'm not saying that's what happened in this case, but certainly we'd have taken a different attitude towards both the venue and the owners had we known of its reputation.
So this leads me to add a third piece of common sense advice to artists to what I suggested yesterday (get insurance & take a proper inventory):
Always check out the venue beforehand, and find out if other artists have had problems there. And if you don't completely trust them, don't give them your artwork.
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