{"id":140039,"date":"2025-08-12T15:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140039\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:55:11","slug":"matt-bangser-joins-art-intelligence-global-after-blum-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140039\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Bangser Joins Art Intelligence Global After Blum Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMatt Bangser, long a fixture at Blum and a discreet broker of high-stakes deals, will join Art Intelligence Global (AIG) as senior director on September 8, the firm announced Tuesday. <\/p>\n

\n\tBangser\u2019s appointment brings to the advisory firm a mix of gallery savvy, auction-house discipline, and a rolodex built over two decades in the trade. He spent 16 years at Blum (formerly Blum & Poe), where he oversaw global sales, secured major estates such as Robert Colescott, and worked closely with artists including Mark Grotjahn and Henry Taylor. Before that came senior posts at Van de Weghe Fine Art, and worked across departments at Phillips<\/a>, and Christie\u2019s. From 2017 to 2020 sat on board of the Art Dealers Association of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe move follows the closure<\/a> of Blum\u2019s Los Angeles and Tokyo galleries last month, when founder Tim Blum<\/a> announced that he was walking away from the traditional gallery model. The decision, he said, was less about the market than the \u201csystem\u201d \u2014 the art world\u2019s relentless circuit of fairs, openings, and obligations. News of the shutdown prompted a volley of calls to Bangser, one of them from AIG co-founder Amy Cappellazzo<\/a>. Their conversations, Bangser told ARTnews, revealed \u201ca real meeting of the minds\u201d about the market. \u201cJoining AIG is a natural evolution of my time in the art world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tCappellazzo, who launched AIG with Yuki Terase in 2021, told ARTnews that she was not looking to expand her senior ranks but that adding Bangser was \u201cone of those rare opportunities you don\u2019t pass up.\u201d She credited him with \u201cunderstanding the whole ecosystem\u201d\u2014from artist studios to secondary-market trading floors. She added that he sees the current market lull as a moment to advance rather than retreat. \u201cBecause he\u2019s worked in galleries, at auction houses, and directly with artists, he brings a range of experience that\u2019s incredibly valuable\u2014especially now,\u201d Cappellazzo said.<\/p>\n

\n\tAIG, based in New York and Hong Kong, advises private clients, artists, estates, and institutions on acquisitions, sales, and long-term collection planning. Its third founding partner, Adam Chinn, is no longer with the firm and now heads International Art Finance, a boutique art-lending company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Bangser, long a fixture at Blum and a discreet broker of high-stakes deals, will join Art Intelligence…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[83685,83686,648,1032,68158,1033,171,83687,26428,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-140039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-amy-cappellazzo","9":"tag-art-dealers-association-of-america","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-christies","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-phillips","16":"tag-tim-blum","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115016612259520774","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}