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Tue, Sep 23, 2025 6:00pm–7:30pm

Subject Matters: Buying Art? In this Economy??!

Tue, Sep 23, 2025
6:00pm–7:30pm
Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Gallery

What makes art valuable? And who decides what it’s worth? Join UMMA Curator Dave Choberka and Ross School of Business Professor Tom Buchmueller for a dive into the strange, fascinating world of the art market. From how UMMA has built its own collection to the wild forces that shape global art prices, this 90-minute session unpacks the dollars and decisions behind the art you see on the walls.

Free and open to the public. Registration required.

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Subject Matters

Subject Matters is the coolest S in the museum. Each 90-minute session is part mind-expanding conversation, part social adventure. UMMA Curator Dave Choberka teams up with a U-M professor or other special guest to unravel surprising questions sparked by the art in UMMA’s galleries

SUPPORT

Lead support for Curriculum/Collection: The Business of Art is provided by Amelia and Eliot Relles, the Benedek Endowment Fund for the Humanities, the Richard and Rosann Noel Fund for Museum Education, the Kaish-Dorfman Campus Curriculum Fund, and U-M Ross Business.