architecture
If your favorite masterpiece, a Matisse, is up for auction. You are bidding for it against a dazzling array of eccentric art dealers. Should you keep bidding, as the price gets higher? Is it a bargain or a worthless forgery? You must decide quickly, but you will never know unless you outbid the competition. What is a masterpiece? Who brings them together? How does it become valuable? I got my answers from the ADAA Collector・s Guide, and learned that the artworks exhibited in the San Francisco Modern Museum are priceless masterpieces. The ADAA stands for the Art Dealers Association of America. Founded in 1962, the mission of ADAA is to ：seek to promote the highest standards of connoisseurship, scholarship and ethical practice within the profession.；(pg 5) The ADAA organizes annual art shows, as well as operations of an appraisal service. The ADAA Collector・s Guide provided valuable information for dealers, buyers, as well as would be collectors. Art dealers play important roles in the art world. In the ADAA Collector・s Guide, I learned that dealers・ jobs are not limited to sale and resale artwork, but they also do other work such as to educate artists and collectors about art.