{"id":6663,"date":"2015-08-05T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6663"},"modified":"2015-08-14T21:07:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T04:07:03","slug":"remington-steele-instagrams-the-art-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/05\/remington-steele-instagrams-the-art-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Remington Steele Instagrams The Art Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/in-brief\/pierce-brosnan-instagram-art-sales-party-322683\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from artnet news<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Are Pierce Brosnan and High-Profile Collectors Really Using Instagram to Buy Art?<\/h1>\n<p><time> by Cait Munro<\/time><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/wp-content\/news-upload\/2015\/08\/pierce.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Instagram\/@piercebrosnanofficial.\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>Photo: Instagram\/@piercebrosnanofficial.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/05\/arts\/international\/instagram-takes-on-growing-role-in-the-art-market.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/em> has finally caught on to a little trend\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/market\/chelsea-gallerist-zach-feuer-sees-sales-bolstered-by-instagram-4353\" target=\"_blank\">we discovered<\/a> almost two years ago: collectors\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/in-brief\/dicaprio-buys-art-on-instagram-275078\" target=\"_blank\">many of them high profile<\/a>\u2014using Instagram to purchase art from galleries and auction houses.<\/p>\n<p>What took the Grey Lady so long to catch on to this <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/10-ways-promote-yourself-instagram-283599\" target=\"_blank\">wonderfully democratizing trend<\/a>? We&#8217;re unsure, but we do know that it was one Pierce Brosnan who exposed the\u00a0world of social media sales, which is hidden in plain sight.<\/p>\n<p>In late April, Brosnan visited the showroom of Phillips auction house in London and posed for a quick photo\u00a0in front of designer Marc Newson&#8217;s <em>Lockheed Lounge<\/em>, which he then posted to his Instagram account along with the caption &#8220;let the bidding commence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later that week, the auction house\u00a0broke the world record for a design object, selling the work for an impressive $3.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/in-brief\/pierce-brosnan-instagram-art-sales-party-322683\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at artnet.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artnet news Are Pierce Brosnan and High-Profile Collectors Really Using Instagram to Buy Art? by Cait Munro Photo: Instagram\/@piercebrosnanofficial. The New York Times has finally caught on to a little trend\u00a0we discovered almost two years ago: collectors\u2014many of them high profile\u2014using Instagram to purchase art from galleries and auction houses. What took the Grey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}