Art Advisor to the Stars Barbara Guggenheim Slept with Clients, Once Ripped Off Sylvester Stallone: Lawsuit

Art advisor to the stars Barbara Guggenheim slept with clients, once ripped off Sylvester Stallone: lawsuit

Barbara Guggenheim, who is not believed to be related to the famed family whose name graces the Guggenheim Museum, once urged her much younger employee and later, partner, Abigail Asher, to "wear leather and be provocative" at a client's house and told her "that she should never go to a client’s home unless she was...

The Art World Responds to the Guggenheim Asher Legal Brawl

While much of the art world is off on summer holidays, news broke earlier this week of a bitter legal battle between top art advisor Barbara Guggenheim and her former partner Abigail Asher. The implosion of the advisors’ high-profile partnership, Guggenheim Asher Associates (GAA), has sent waves through an industry already reeling from dealer Tim Blum’s announcement earlier this month that he was shuttering his eponymous gallery. In a widely…