Rachel Pownall is the founding member of the Made2Measure team. Broadly speaking, Rachel's research is concerned with the realm of understanding investor behaviour. She has also specialised in cultural markets and goods, in particular the …
Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage
The Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage, also known as MACCH, is a research centre that brings takes an interdisciplinary approach to arts and heritage. The field of arts and heritage today is complex and it …
Art Gallery Coronavirus Survey
The coronavirus has had devastating impacts on economies and businesses and the art world is no exception. Back in April, in the early days of the European lockdown, Rachel Pownall surveyed 236 art galleries worldwide about the challenges …
Conspicuous consumption
The cultural shift in Western society towards individualism has generated an increase in importance of conspicuous consumption. In today’s society we use materialistic products like apparel, phones, cars or watches to express our …