Jack Gunning

Picture this: your team is finalizing shipments for Frieze 2025, and someone discovers that the same painting shows two different prices in your spreadsheet. One cell says $45,000; another tab lists $52,000. Worse, the location field says “main gallery” while a WhatsApp thread from three months ago confirms it shipped to the artist’s studio for … Read more

In 2006, Maria Altmann won a legal battle that returned Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” to her family—nearly seven decades after Nazi authorities seized it from Vienna in 1938. The case required historians, lawyers, and archivists to reconstruct ownership across Austrian state archives, U.S. military records from Central Collecting Points, and export license … Read more

If your organization manages a corporate art collection, you’ve likely felt the strain of keeping tabs on every piece. Artwork lives across floors, buildings, and regions. Values shift. Provenance documents drift into scattered email threads. And when a C-suite executive asks what’s on the wall in the boardroom next Tuesday, the answer shouldn’t require half … Read more

Workplace art encompasses far more than decor hanging on office walls. It includes paintings, sculptures, digital displays, and installations strategically placed throughout corporate environments to shape employee experience, reinforce culture, and communicate values to clients and visitors. If your organization manages a corporate art collection, you’ve likely discovered that selecting the right artwork involves balancing … Read more

If your organization manages corporate art, you’ve likely faced this challenge: works scattered across multiple offices, incomplete records from decades of acquisitions, and no single system connecting provenance details to current locations and values. The gap between knowing you should catalog and actually doing it can feel overwhelming. Sound art provenance research is what closes … Read more

If your organization manages corporate art, you’ve likely faced a familiar challenge: valuable works scattered across offices, warehouses, and loan venues, tracked through a patchwork of spreadsheets, shared drives, and institutional memory. Asset management software has evolved dramatically since the early 2000s, transforming art management from basic IT tracking tools into sophisticated platforms capable of … Read more

Table of Contents Key Challenges in Corporate Art Inventory Management How Onward Approaches Art Inventory Management for Corporate Collections Best Practices for Implementing Art Inventory Management Software Getting Started with Onward Art Inventory Management Software FAQ If your organization manages corporate art, you’ve likely faced the scramble of locating artwork records during an insurance renewal, … Read more

Table of Contents What Is Art Database Software? The Current State of Art Collection Management in Organizations Key Challenges Organizations Face Without Robust Art Database Software Core Capabilities of Modern Art Database Software Benefits You’ll See from Using Art Database Software Like Onward Getting Started with Onward as Your Art Database Software Transform Your Collection … Read more

If your organization manages corporate art, you’ve likely faced the moment when your spreadsheets, email chains, and shared drives simply stop working. Once your collection passes 150-200 works or spans multiple locations, the manual approach breaks down. Lost location data during office moves. Outdated insurance values buried in 2022 PDFs that never made it back … Read more

Introduction: Why Your Organization Needs an Art Inventory App in 2026 Picture this: you’re a facilities director at a financial services firm with offices in New York, Chicago, and London. Thoughtful business art strengthens culture, brand, and workplace experience. Your team manages over 500 artworks spread across these locations. When the CFO asks for a … Read more