Cambridge Information Group ( CIG ) is a privately held global investment firm focusing on information services, education and technology. It began as a firm providing services to academic publishers . It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland .
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32-563: A United States publishing company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sotheby%27s Institute of Art Sotheby's Institute of Art is a private, for-profit institution of higher education devoted to the study of art and its markets with campuses in London, New York City and online. The institute offers full-time accredited master's degrees as well as a range of postgraduate certificates , summer, semester and online courses, public programmes, and executive education. It
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64-635: A partnership with Culture& , a Black arts and education charity, attempts to increase diversity in the UK art world by offering scholarships for courses within the institute's Masters programmes to students from under-represented communities. In September 2006, the Institute broadened its course offerings in New York and in 2010 the New York Institute received degree-granting authority from
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112-414: Is a subsidiary of Sotheby's fine art dealers. Originally conceived as a training program for connoisseurship by Sotheby's auction house in 1969, Sotheby's Institute of Art aims to provide students with education on the business of art while exploring both the scholarly and practical sides of the art world. In 1995, Sotheby's Institute of Art – London was granted the status of an Affiliated Institution of
128-480: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Cambridge Information Group Founder Robert Snyder's son Andrew is chief executive officer and his daughter Jill is director of communications. CIG was founded in 1971 by Robert Snyder and Philip Hixon as a result of a merger of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), Disclosure Incorporated , and National Standards Association . The latter were sold by 1993, and
144-810: Is situated in Bedford Square , Bloomsbury ( 51°31′07″N 0°07′52″W / 51.51869°N 0.13116°W / 51.51869; -0.13116 ( Sotheby's Institute of Art, London campus ) ), a well-preserved Georgian square with a private central garden, built between 1775 and 1783. The New York campus is located in the Art Deco landmark, the General Electric Building in midtown Manhattan ( 40°45′25″N 73°58′21″W / 40.7570°N 73.9724°W / 40.7570; -73.9724 ( Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York campus ) ). The libraries on
160-625: The University of Manchester 's Department of Art History and Archaeology. At the end of 2002, Sotheby's sold its Institute to a US-based information and educational services firm, Cambridge Information Group (CIG), which retains the Sotheby's name. Sotheby's Institute continues to have strong links with Sotheby's auction house, having members on the Sotheby's Institute of Art – London advisory board and students having access to internships, auctions and exhibitions at Sotheby's. From September 2023
176-595: The London and New York campuses collectively contain more than 3 million volumes, 350 databases, 70 print subscriptions, and 126 serials—all of which are academic in nature and related to art and the art market. Sotheby's Institute of Art was founded by Sotheby's auction house in London in 1969. Initially, the Institute served as a training program for auction house employees and provided lessons in connoisseurship. Auction house experts and professionals often serve as Sotheby's Institute of Art faculty and guest speakers. The Kiddell Collection (also known as "The Black Museum")
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#1732766193578192-815: The Los Angeles campus. The institute also began offering courses in mainland China in 2013 and in March 2014 announced a partnership with Tsinghua University to offer a six-week international field study programme with a professional certificate. As of December 2023, the school was on the list for Heightened Cash Monitoring 2 for problems related to financial responsibility by the US Department of Education . The Institute runs full-time master's degree programs in Art Business, Contemporary Art, Fine and Decorative Art, East Asian Art and Contemporary Design. In
208-687: The Regents of the State of New York. It has been an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design since 1989. Between 2013 and 2019 Sotheby's Institute in partnership with the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University , established a new master's degree in Art Business. Jonathan T.D. Neil was the Director of
224-634: The core CSA reference work expanded into the social sciences, the arts and the humanities. CIG purchased R. R. Bowker in 2001 and Sotheby's Institute of Art in 2003. As of 2007, CIG's operating companies were ProQuest , R. R. Bowker, and CIG Education Group, owner of Sotheby's Institute of Art, and Bach to Rock music school (B2R). In 2016, CIG sold investments in Navtech and MetaMetrics. On December 1, 2021, CIG sold ProQuest to Clarivate for $ 5.3 billion. On June 10, 2022, CIG acquired Emerald Group Publishing . This article about
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256-433: The summer, the institute offers two week and month long certificate programs in topics ranging from curation to art evaluation and provenance research. At the London campus, master's degrees are awarded by the University of Manchester . In New York, master's degrees are granted through the Regents of the State of New York and accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design . Sotheby's Institute London
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