TALKING GALLERIES. The International Platform for Galleries is proud to announce the 5th edition of the Barcelona Symposium on January 16-17, 2017, a two-day programme under the title "Consolidating Gallery Strategies" to be held at the MACBA museum. One of the most influential world-wide European gallerists, Thaddaeus Ropac, will open this year's symposium. With galleries in Salzburg, Paris and soon in London, Ropac is at the forefront of the ever-changing gallery sector and will share his expertise about the feverish state of the art business. Long-term collaborators to TALKING GALLERIES such as Georgina Adam (art market editor-at-large, The Art Newspaper; art market correspondent, Financial Times); Claes Nordenhake (Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin/ Stockholm); Alain Servais (Collector and entrepreneur); Adam Sheffer (Partner and Director, Cheim & Read, New York and President of ADAA) and Jocelyn Wolff (Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris) are some of the key figures expected to attend.