The Gray Market

The Gray Market

The A-list education startup prying open the closed art world

Marc Spiegler's paywalled online courses are leveraging venture-capital models to expand the art trade

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Tim Schneider
Jan 09, 2025
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  • Marc Spiegler, cultural strategist and former global director of Art Basel. Photo: JR’s Printing Press.

Education is one of the only spaces that has a more foundational—and more fraught—relationship to money than art. So it’s only right that a new enterprise headlined by the former global director of the world’s premier art fair brand would try to synerg…

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