Galleria

[ashish2104]

Well established artists usually sell their work through a gallery on an exclusive reprenstation arrangement. Whenver an artist gets a contract for an exhibition in a public museum, his fee is negotiated by whatever gallery represents him. the gallery always demans 50% of the artist's fee, even though the exhibition will not be on their premises, will not require their services and will not result in sales of works by the particular artist. this 50% fee is clearly a tariff that allows the galleries to use their stellar clients to make money for themselves. It is unfair to both the artist and the public.

Which of the following would be most useful in investigating the claim made above?
A)knowledge of the the support and services offered by galleries to struggling and unknown artists.
B)the cost of time spent by the gallery in making arrangements for the museum exhibition.
C)the length of time during which the artist's work are left on display in the museum.
D)the amount of money the museum is willing to spend on advertising the exhibit.
E)the actual dollar amount of the average artist's fee for having works displayed in a museum exhibition

OA later.

[pradeepkaushal9518]

imo D


as it says that the amount of money the museum is willing to spend on advertising the exhibit. if they spend something on ad then it is not unfair for artist and the public.

[sumanr84]

I think its B. We are investigating a reasoning that would justify the 50% share taken by Gallerias. If we could know how much Gallery has invested in terms of time, which translates to operational cost of Gallery, then a 50% share can be justified.

[adi_800]

If we provide two responses to the point mentioned in D... then for one response, the conclusion should be strengthened and for other it should be weakened..

Strengthen : The money spent by gallery is minimal... That means...yes the fee is unfair for the artists...
Weaken: The money spent by gallery is substantial..If yes, then the subjected fee is fair...

So, I think D.
A and E are out because they talk about average and struggling and unknown artists when the argument is abour well established artists..

For B: what if the gallery invests much time but does not spend much money.... That could be the case n in that case, teh conclusion is not weakened or strengthened.....

[apex231]

B looks good.

Option D is irrelevant as it refers to amount that the museum is willing to spend on advertising and not the amount that a gallery is willing to spend.

[paes]

IMO D

[hardik.jadeja]

The fight is between B and E. B looks good but I am also tempted towards E. Here's why..

The point to note here is that the gallery demands 50% of the artist's fee only the exhibition is taking place in a museum. In other places, the gallery might be asking less share of artist's fee. Lets say the gallery charges 10% of artist's fee when the exhibition takes place at an art gallery(or some place other than the museum) and 50% when the exhibition takes place at a museum.

Now lets say, the artist's fee is $20,000 when the exhibition is in art gallery. But when the exhibition is in a museum, the artist's fee is $1000. The gallery earns $2000 in scenario 1 and just $500 in scenario 2.

Now you see, the 50% share of artist's fee doesn't look unfair, since even the gallery is earning less when the exhibition takes place at a museum. So basically the gallery's policy of 50% of artist's fee is unfair only if the artist's fee is high even at an exhibition in a museum, but its not unfair if the artist's fee is really low. That's what option E investigates.

Maybe i am taking it a little too far but this is one way to look at it.

Ashish@: Please post the OA.

Hope that helps..

[gmatmachoman]

I think its B. We are investigating a reasoning that would justify the 50% share taken by Gallerias. If we could know how much Gallery has invested in terms of time, which translates to operational cost of Gallery, then a 50% share can be justified.

IMO B!!

[sumanr84]

Pls post OA and OE ..

[diebeatsthegmat]

Well established artists usually sell their work through a gallery on an exclusive reprenstation arrangement. Whenver an artist gets a contract for an exhibition in a public museum, his fee is negotiated by whatever gallery represents him. the gallery always demans 50% of the artist's fee, even though the exhibition will not be on their premises, will not require their services and will not result in sales of works by the particular artist. this 50% fee is clearly a tariff that allows the galleries to use their stellar clients to make money for themselves. It is unfair to both the artist and the public.

Which of the following would be most useful in investigating the claim made above?
A)knowledge of the the support and services offered by galleries to struggling and unknown artists.
B)the cost of time spent by the gallery in making arrangements for the museum exhibition.
C)the length of time during which the artist's work are left on display in the museum.
D)the amount of money the museum is willing to spend on advertising the exhibit.
E)the actual dollar amount of the average artist's fee for having works displayed in a museum exhibition

OA later.

i am confused between B and D but after reading more carefully i think the answer should be D
since the 50% of the artists's fee is a tarriff that allows the galleries to use their main client to make money for themselves, maybe the museum uses its own clients to ad the exhibit so the museum still have 50% of the amount of money and didnt have to spend any energy or money to do ad jobs
i think that way. dunno if i am right! but my answer is D

[outreach]

one more vote for B

[ashish2104]

OA B.

The reason is that gallery has invested time to make arrangements for the artists. These arragements call for a fee which is then justified.

D is out because the argument is about museum accepting fees from artists, not the amount it spends on advertising.

[pradeepkaushal9518]

ashish oa is B agreed but when 50 % of the people agreed with D then how can be sure that in actual gmat we can answer the questions.

Actually Gmat is making us fool it is giving two such option that it is very difficult for someone to choose the correct one.

if u dont have the oa then what will be the conclusion?

[ashish2104]

pradeepkaushal9518 Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:48 pm

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ashish oa is B agreed but when 50 % of the people agreed with D then how can be sure that in actual gmat we can answer the questions.

Actually Gmat is making us fool it is giving two such option that it is very difficult for someone to choose the correct one.

if u dont have the oa then what will be the conclusion?

Actually, even I had selected D. But the OA said B. After thinking carefully on B & D, the only reason D can be ruled out is because it talks about amount of money spent on advertising and not on exhibit. The argument specifies that artists gets a contract for an exhibition. So, the museum can now either invest money/time for exhibition in their museum or outside museum. In either case, this point is important than advertising the exhibit.

Think of it in this way, how can one adverstie w/o exhibition and why would a museum bother about advertising when its job is exhibiting art?

[PurpleReign]

I chose B because of this line:

Tthe gallery always demands 50% of the artist's fee, even though the exhibition will not be on their premises, will not require their services and will not result in sales of works by the particular artist


The issue we're discussing is whether or not the gallery is entitled to any of the money the museum pays for exhibiting the artist's work. The line above is arguing that the gallery is basically getting something for nothing. We need to evaluate the something for nothing claim, and the best way of doing that is by going with B: investigating the cost of time spent by the gallery in making arrangements for the museum exhibition. We need to find out if the gallery does in fact do some leg work in getting the art work up at the museum or if the folks at the gallery just sit back and collect checks as the author claims.