Scope Art Fair: The X-Games of the Art World

The business of selling art is nothing if not paradoxical: its product is creativity (or at least what is sold as “creativity”), but the business itself is marked by “tried and true” and methods and conventions.  Alexis Hubshman, Founder and President of SCOPE International Contemporary Art Show, is that rare exception to the rule: an original mind who helped turn emerging art into a business. We recently spoke about how to keep a company devoted to emerging art relevant, when emerging art has become established… and why he views SCOPE as a “cultural engineering firm at heart.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/marcbabej/2014/10/23/scope-art-fair-the-x-games-of-the-art-world/