In this post-digital age increasing numbers of artists collaborate to create non-traditional works of time-based or mixed media, for which a significant global market has developed and is advancing.

There is a real shortage of published material that authoritatively and comprehensively covers the complex and extensive challenges of commissioning new artworks: conceptual, cultural, ethical, managerial, financial and legal.

Print-on-Demand platforms are fast becoming an important tool for artists, allowing them to test ideas and present work in a professional way through printed books.

Summer 2012 in the UK was notable for the opening of two unique exhibitions with closely related themes: invisible art and lost art.

Artsmart 2012 is a programme of talks and workshops designed to help artists get ahead in the creative industries.

A century ago Marcel Duchamp toyed with the idea of creating a box to hold notes and sketches for his works which eventually resulted in The Green Box, 1934, containing notes for the Large Glass, 1915-23.

Own-It have written a downloadable pdf

The resurgence of performance-related artistic practices over the past decade raises complex aesthetic, legal and, at times, ethical questions regarding the protection, authorship and ownership of the ‘works’ generated through these artistic practices.