Date of Award
2026
Document Type
MA Project - Restricted Access (SIA Only)
Project Type
MA Project - Business Plan
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art Business
First Advisor
Brendan Burns
Second Advisor
Noah Kupferman
Abstract
Over the past two decades, the global cultural landscape has undergone a profound transformation. More than 400 art fairs and over 1,000 recurring cultural events (biennials, triennials, design weeks, theatre and music festivals) now structure the international art calendar. According to UNESCO and OECD, cultural tourism accounts for nearly 40% of worldwide tourism revenues, while the global art market reached USD 65 billion in 2024 (Art Basel & UBS Global Art Market Report, 2024). Yet despite this abundance, cultural travelers, collectors, and professionals still rely on fragmented and outdated sources of information to plan their journeys. ArtAtlas was created to solve this problem. It is a digital aggregator and discovery platform that curates the world’s art and cultural events, from art fairs and biennials to opera seasons and classical-music festivals, through an elegant, human-centered interface. ArtAtlas unifies the art and performing-arts ecosystems in a single navigable map, transforming scattered data into an intelligent, visually refined, and trustworthy tool for global cultural engagement.
Recommended Citation
Chadli, Saad and Fleischer-Amoros, Shammiel, "ArtAtlas" (2026). MA Projects. 268.
https://digitalcommons.sia.edu/stu_proj/268