Some retailers have become curators and patrons of the arts, highlighting local artists and emerging artists or even internationally renowned artists within their retail locations. Far from a fleeting trend, leading-edge retailers across the globe have embraced the concept of art in retail. On an international level, Selfridges in the UK has a long history of hosting exhibitions and commissioning professional and amateur artists to create sculptural installations and windows displays; Reiss, the fashion retailer, has collaborated with artists for a travelling exhibit in their locations in the Middle East; Anthropologie often interjects playful rotating installations into their stores, and[…]