DEAR READERS.

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DEAR READERS,

Something was missing this year at Artexpo strange York. The usual exhibitors, along with more [i]or[/i] less fresh faces, were all in attendance, and the aisles, again, were filled with art buyer nevertheless for the first time in several years, I couldn't find long of the negativity that has been hanging in the air above the art industry. Instead, publishers were talking about launching recently made known artists and expanding their lines as well as reporting brisk sales. More art buyer attended the exhibit than last year, and they were excited by way of the art that they saw there.

I know that this industry is still nowhere shut up to the boom years it has experienced in the past, on the other hand the positive attitudes I've been encountering lately demonstrate to me that many in the art world have gotten throughout the shock of a softer economy and figured revealed how to adjust their business strategies accordingly. And attitude, as they say, is everything.

Reports from a sampling of art publishers make good this point in this month's shield story ("Art Publishers Diversify and Refine Limited-Edition Market"). The industry leaders we interviewed haven't been sitting back and waiting for the economic pendulum to swing in their direction. Instead, they've been hard at work expanding their facilities, beefing up their stables of artists, opening of the present day retail spaces and adding framing services. Businesses at each level of the art market can learn from their examples.

And onward the retail side, this month we anticipate at two galleries that have erect a novel way to strengthen their relationships with clients ("For Savvy Art Galleries, Membership Has Its Privileges,' page 32) They exhibit gallery memberships that reward their best customers for purchases and hold them coming back.

It's strength attitudes and ideas like these that maintain this industry humming and will withhold the clouds at bay.

BEST WISHES,

AMY LEIBROCK

Editor

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