Art Dealers Association of America

Who We Are
The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) is a non-profit membership organization of the nation’s leading galleries in the fine arts. Founded in 1962, ADAA seeks to promote the highest standards of connoisseurship, scholarship and ethical practice within the profession. ADAA members deal primarily in paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings and photographs from the Renaissance to the present day. Each ADAA member is an experienced and knowledgeable dealer in their field. ADAA has 175 member galleries in more than 25 U.S. cities.

ADAA Membership
Membership in ADAA is by invitation of the Board of Directors. In order to qualify for membership, a dealer must have an established reputation for honesty, integrity and professionalism among their peers, and must make a substantial contribution to the cultural life of the community by offering works of high aesthetic quality, presenting worthwhile exhibitions and publishing scholarly catalogues. ADAA is dedicated to promoting the highest standards of connoisseurship, scholarship and ethical practice within the profession, and to increasing public awareness of the role and responsibilities of reputable art dealers.

What Do ADAA Galleries Do?
ADAA’s members function as an important component of the U.S. art community, providing the means by which artists reach their public and collectors gain access to works of art. Exhibitions by ADAA members provide the first view of new works by both young and established artists and present works by previously neglected artists as well as works by acknowledged masters.

General Activities
ADAA participates in numerous national and international activities including:
• Undertake initiatives and lobbying efforts to support the national arts community
• Cooperating with museums, scholars and artists on issues of mutual concern
• Advising members, other organizations and government bodies on matters
concerning the visual arts, including legislation on prints, sculpture and moral
rights
• Assisting the F.B.I. and other law enforcement agencies on issues involving
stolen works of art, questions of authenticity and in identifying fake works and
attempting to remove them from the market
• Speaking out on behalf of ADAA members and the art community on such public
policy issues as pending legislation, legal matters and international trade

M Woods in China

M Woods is located on ingeniously reconstructed 2500 square meters of a former munitions factory space in Beijing’s 798 Art District.

M Woods’ permanent collection comprises major works of contemporary art emanating from artists working throughout the world (Kader Attia, Tracey Emin, Charles Harlan, Motohiko Odani, Sarah Peoples, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Yuki Yamamoto) and works from younger Chinese artists such as Luis Chan, Chen Fei, Duan Jianyu, Gao Ludi, He Xiangyu, Firenze Lai, Ouyang Chun, Xu Zhen, Yang Fudong, and Zeng Fanzhi.

The collection of M Woods thus reflects the museum’s understanding of contemporary art as a cultural phenomenon occurring on a global level. M Woods’ main goal therefore is to create a platform for both Chinese and Western artists and a general public alike to appreciate the relations between different cultural spheres and to come to a global understanding of our world.

M Woods in this perspective understands itself as an experimental art space and it is M Woods’ mission to provide the resources for curators to assess the situation of contemporary art occurring in China more easily. Other aspects of M Woods mission, closely related to its mission as an experimental art space, are planned artist residencies, lectures and panel discussions through which we hope to create a stimulating environment that nourishes our respective understanding of the world.

About M. Woods’ founder Lin Han

Lin Han was born in July 1986 in Beijing. He studied aboard in Singapore at the age of 14, and went on to graduate from Northumbria University. He started collecting contemporary art in 2011. His collection includes the most important contemporary artists as well as young emerging artists from both China and the abroad. In the past, the New York Times and the Guardian both have conducted interviews with him. He is one of the most influential young art collectors in contemporary China.

M Woods- http://www.mwoods.org/

Source from:

http://www.randian-online.com/np_space/m-woods/