DCAM
Drutt Creative Arts Management
Russian and Central European modernism · American studio craft and design
Attribution, provenance, and collections advisory. New York.
Practice
DCAM works with museums, foundations, estates, and private collections on exhibitions, publications, and questions of attribution. Recent engagements include curatorial advisory roles for the Lee Ufan Foundation, Arles; the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel; and the Hermitage Museum Foundation Israel, Tel Aviv.
The practice was founded by Matthew Drutt, who was Chief Curator of The Menil Collection, Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Executive Director of Artpace San Antonio. He was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2006.
The practice holds no interest in the objects it examines and takes no position in their sale. Fees are never contingent on the conclusion reached. Standards of practice.
Areas of practice
Attribution and provenance
Opinions and research on contested works, with particular depth in the Russian and Central European avant-garde — the field with the highest concentration of disputed attributions in twentieth-century art.
Exhibitions and publications
Curatorial direction and general editorship for institutional projects, from concept and loan strategy through catalogue and scholarly apparatus.
Collections advisory
Guidance for foundations, estates, and private collections on acquisition, cataloguing, interpretation, and long-range planning.
Selected recent projects
2024
Shape / Space / Form / Faktura: Central European ModernismLee Ufan Foundation, Arles
2023
Beauty and the Unexpected: Modern and Contemporary American CraftsNationalmuseum, Stockholm
2015
In Search of 0,10: The Last Futurist Exhibition of PaintingFondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel