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Louise Blouin Media
Company typePrivate
IndustryPublishing
Founded2003
FounderLouise Blouin (CEO)
Websitelouiseblouinmedia.com

Louise Blouin Media is an art magazine, website, and book publishing company founded by Louise Blouin.[1] It publishes titles including Art+Auction, Gallery Guide, Culture+Travel and Modern Painters magazines. It also owns a French art book publisher named fr [Somogy (publisher); Somogy], and databases named Art Sales Index.[2]

History

Louise Blouin was one of the founding partners and co-CEO of Trader Classified Media.[3] In 2000, Blouin exited Trader Classified Media to help manage the turnaround of the ailing international auction house Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg.[4] She later resigned to start up her own media company, which in 2003 was incorporated as Louise Blouin Media.[5]

A web site, artinfo.com, was launched in 2005,[2][6] and later changed to blouinartinfo.com. It has editions in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Brazil, India, Russia and the UK.[7][8]

Former executives and contributors at Louise Blouin Media include: Ben Crawford;[2] former Conde Nast editorial director James Truman, who was made CEO and resigned in 2006; and James Conley, group chief financial officer, who resigned a week later.[9] Former Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman began writing for blouinartinfo in 2012.[10] Within three years, it acquired and launched several arts-themed publications—Art & Auction, Gallery Guide, Museums, Culture+Travel, and Modern Painters.[11] All of the publications are run from the New York editorial offices of Louise Blouin Media.[11]

In 2014, Blouin acquired the English magazine Lifestyle, renaming it Blouin Lifestyle magazine. Somogy is the Paris-based catalog division of Louise Blouin Media which produces over seventy catalog titles each year for institutions including the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[12][13][14]

Publications

  • Blouin Artinfo
  • Blouin Art+Auction
  • Blouin Modern Painters
  • Blouin Lifestyle
  • Blouin Gallery Guide
  • Blouin Monthly Papers
  • Blouin News
  • Blouin Art Sales Index
  • Somogy


Controversies

In December 2011, Louise Blouin Media was sued for defamation in United States district court for a September 16, 2011 article written by Noah Charney on blouinartinfo.com, in which, Charney stated that a forensic art expert "was part of a family of art forgers, and that he had been planting the forensic evidence into the questionable works himself."[15]

In 2010, an article in the New York Post noted controversy over payments to freelance writers for the arts publications of Blouin's company. One group, WAAANKAA (Writers Angry At Artinfo Not Kidding Around Anymore), demanded back payments of $18,000.[16] In December 2013, Artinfo.com abruptly laid off 25 international employees. The New York Observer posted a 1,000-word internal email from Louise Blouin to staff explaining that the move was part of a new direction in which "One person doing all and not good we need less of one but many more."[17] In February 2014, the New York Post reported that two former executives were suing Blouin for $250,000 in pay and commissions.[18]

Response

In a response to the New York Observer's post, President of Louise Blouin Media, Ben Hartley said that "many of the alleged facts in the story were incorrect."[19][20] Per the response from the President, New York Observer later updated the post to reflect Hartley’s contention.[19]

References

  1. ^ Zena Olijnyk (December 5–25, 2005), Louise Blouin MacBain — The Art-World Aficionado, Canadian Business Magazine {{citation}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help). Archived March 18, 2006.
  2. ^ a b c Anthony Haden-Guest (October 29, 2005), War of Vision on the Web (PDF), FT, retrieved August 2013 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  3. ^ "Culture net cast wider". The China Daily. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  4. ^ "Board of Trustees Elections". www.guggenheim.org. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  5. ^ "AP Alternative Assets LP". Reuters. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  6. ^ Linda Sandler (March 27, 2006), Art Publisher MacBain Revamps Magazines, Focuses on New York, Bloomberg, retrieved August 2013 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  7. ^ Dan Duray (April 13, 2012).Louise Blouin Announces Blouin Artinfo Brazil. Gallerist. Retrieved August 2013.
  8. ^ [s.n.] (November 14, 2012). Global arts and culture conglomerate opens India chapter. The Times of India. Retrieved August 2013.
  9. ^ Keith Kelly (October 18, 2006), Blouin in the Wind: CFO Follows CEO Out Artsy LTB Media's Door, NY Post, retrieved August 2013 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  10. ^ Marc Graser (February 17, 2012). Ex-Voice critic Hoberman lands gig. Variety. Retrieved August 2013.
  11. ^ a b "Louise Blouin Net Worth Canada". Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  12. ^ "Louise Blouin MacBain — The Art-World Aficionado - Canadian Business - Your Source For Business News". Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  13. ^ Corp., absolutearts.com, World Wide Arts Resources,. "Louise Blouin Media Launches BlouinARTINFO.com Daily Edition at The Armory Show". www.absolutearts.com. Retrieved August 17, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "A Profile on Louise T. Blouin and Art & Auction and Artinfo.com - DuJour". Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  15. ^ Adam Klasfeld (December 12, 2011). "Gawker Brought Into New Yorker Fracas". Courthouse News Service. Retrieved August 2013.
  16. ^ Keith J. Kelly (16 July 2010). Didn’t get paid by Louise Blouin? Get in line. New York Post. Accessed December 2013.
  17. ^ Dan Duray (13 December 2013) Blouin Media, Publisher of Art+Auction and Modern Painters, Terminates Most International Freelance Contracts. New York: observer.com. Accessed April 2015.
  18. ^ Keith J. Kelly (14 February 2014) Former execs sue Blouin Media. New York Post.
  19. ^ a b Stoeffel, Kat (May 10, 2011). "Will a Paywall Help Keep the Lights on at Louise Blouin Media?". New York Observer. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
  20. ^ Genocchio, Benjamin (October 5, 2011). "New York Observer's Desperate LBM Smear Misfires And Is Full of Errors". Retrieved August 18, 2015.
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