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Louise Blouin Media

Company type	Private
Industry	Publishing
Founded	2003
Founder	Louise Blouin
Website	louiseblouinmedia.com

Louise Blouin Media is an international group of art magazines, websites and book publishing company founded in 2003 and based in New York. It was founded by Louise Blouin, magazine publisher and philanthropist, she is also President of Louise T Blouin Foundation.

Louise Blouin Media’s titles include Blouin Art+Auction, Blouin Modern Painters, Blouin Lifestyle, a newspaper dedicated to fairs and cultural events, Blouinartinfo Newspaper, a museums guide and galleries, Blouin Gallery Guide, the websites Blouinartinfo.com and Blouin News. Louise Blouin Media also owns Somogy, the global art book publisher, and publishes art price guides Blouin Art Sales Index.

The mission statement is to provide unparalleled access to the world art and culture through media, events, partnerships and "Blouin Creative Leadership Summit" held in New York annually alongside the official partner, the United Nations.

History

LTB Holding Ltd. was set up in 2001 by Louise Blouin. Louise Blouin Media was started in 2003. A website, artinfo.com, was launched in 2005, and then later changed to blouinartinfo.com. It has editions in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Brazil, India, Russia and the UK. The company acquired or started the Art & Auction, Gallery Guide, Museums, Culture+Travel and Modern Painters magazine titles.

In 2006 the company closed Spoon magazine, which it had recently bought. In 2008, two years after it was started, Culture+Travel was closed down.

Former executives and contributors at Louise Blouin Media include: Ben Crawford; 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. Former Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman began writing for blouinartinfo in 2012.

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."

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. In December 2013, Artinfo.com abruptly laid off 26 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." In February 2014, the New York Post reported that two former executives were suing Blouin for $250,000 in pay and commissions.

Response

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

References

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8. Dan Duray (April 13, 2012).Louise Blouin Announces Blouin Artinfo Brazil. Gallerist. Retrieved August 2013.
9. (November 14, 2012). Global arts and culture conglomerate opens India chapter. The Times of India. Retrieved August 2013.
10. ^ Joe Pompeo (). An Artful Dodger. DuJour. Accessed August 2015.
11. 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)
12. Marc Graser (February 17, 2012). Ex-Voice critic Hoberman lands gig. Variety. Retrieved August 2013.
13. Adam Klasfeld (December 12, 2011). "Gawker Brought Into New Yorker Fracas". Courthouse News Service. Retrieved August 2013.
14. Keith J. Kelly (July 16, 2010). Didn’t get paid by Louise Blouin? Get in line. New York Post. Accessed December 2013.
15. Dan Duray (December 13, 2013) Blouin Media, Publisher of Art+Auction and Modern Painters, Terminates Most International Freelance Contracts. New York: observer.com. Accessed April 2015.
16. Keith J. Kelly (February 14, 2014) Former execs sue Blouin Media. New York Post.
17. ^ Stoeffel, Kat (May 10, 2011). "Will a Paywall Help Keep the Lights on at Louise Blouin Media?". New York Observer. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
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