Written by: Fiona Gruber It is with great pleasure that the Directors of Lowensteins Arts Management Pty Ltd announce that Mr Piyush Thakrar was appointed as a partner from 1 July 2019. Piyush has been working assiduously on all matters of accounting and tax for our larger corporate and SME’s for many years now. He has […]
Are The Banks Our Friends Again? The answer is, probably not, but it appears they have become a lot easier to deal with and seem a little more open to discussions about the rate of interest on your loan as well as deferring repayments. The majority of stories I’m both hearing and reading about […]
In this Fact Sheet we turn our attention to the many and varied ways that artists earn their income and see what is the best way for them to manage their cash flow. Cash flow is an important factor in the running of any business, especially for artists because they need to be able to […]
Unfortunately in Victoria, we find ourselves at the start of another 6 weeks of lockdown. We had just started to feel a little bit of freedom and now we find ourselves back at square one. Despite this, we want to write to you and reassure you that the Melbourne office will still be functioning […]
Melbourne’s world famous Empress of Burlesque Macabre, Moira Finucane, unleashes the second chapter of her globally acclaimed, award winning art immersion The Rapture. This is the Lair of the Ice Queen, dripping with porcelain icicles, silk icebergs, gothic dreams, ghost nets, a glacier choir of jaw-dropping voices (beyond gender diva Mama Alto, operatic star Piera Dennerstein, […]
Written by: Fiona Gruber When Stuart Purves was a child, he’d help carry Arthur Boyd’s paintings and pass the time of day with Sidney Nolan, John Perceval and Albert Tucker. Home was the Australian Galleries, founded by his parents Anne and Tam in 1956. Stuart was ten when it opened and that’s when his real education […]
Written by: Fiona Gruber, arts journalist, broadcaster and radio producer. While celebrating forty years with an exhibition of fine traditional art works, Christopher Day can reflect that the endurance of his gallery in Paddington makes him the longest single owner in Sydney. Things have definitely changed in the past four decades; ‘There used to be a […]
Written by: Fiona Gruber Along with the rest of the world, those in the art market aren’t going to forget 2020 in a hurry. In July, the Australian and New Zealand Art Sales Digest reported that art auction sales were the slowest in 22 years with $25 million of sales, roughly half the gross sales reported […]
Written by: Dr. Eugene Barilo Von Reisberg. Evan Lowenstein with permission from ArtsHub This email seeks to provide a handy guide to financial assistance which is being made available by the Federal, State, and some municipal governments and as well as by individual funding bodies for the general public and for the creative industries in particular. […]
Around this time of year many people are thinking about putting a little more money into superannuation to get an additional tax deduction for the tax year. The limit for making a deductible contribution known as a “concessional contribution” for the 2020 year is $25,000 While there are many rules around making and claiming deductible […]