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Best regards! ミラP@Miraclepine 23:12, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
Errant artist files? edit
Hi, glad to see you're adding artist files to entries, but there are some odd additions for institutions rather than artists. Can you shed some light on this as to whether this is correct or whether we should prune these? Cc'ing Multichill. Examples:
Thanks. -- Fuzheado (talk) 20:47, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
@Fuzheado: we have files for institutions such as museums and art galleries as part of our artist files collection. For example, a pamphlet for an exhibition that focuses on more than one artist is often filed under the institution responsible for the exhibition, or we might have communications/promotional material issued by a gallery or arts organization, etc. [ARLIS' Best Practices for Cataloging Artist Files] gives the following non-individual types as common subjects for artist files: "Academic institutions, architectural firms, archives, auction houses, commercial galleries, foundations, foundries, galleries, governmental bodies, historic sites, institutes, kunsthalles, libraries, monuments, museums, publishers, religious organizations, research centers, private collections, societies, etc."