This kid on the right and I clearly read the same Times Online article: here. Dear British news media, please quit adding fluff to my daily art reading– WE ARE ALL UNINTERESTED. Thank you. xo, A.A.C.
Posts Tagged ‘art’
Uncomfortable PR from the UK
Posted in Indulgences, News, tagged art, British news media, disinterested school children, pointless reporting, Prince William on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bidding starts for online Aspire Auction; selling retablos
Posted in Auctions, Indulgences, Tips, tagged affordable art auctions, art, art collecting, Aspire Auctions, Christian art, Cleveland, Ohio, retablo on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As an amateur art collector who has been acquiring anything that strikes my fancy (and within my budget) for the last three years, I’ve recently come to the decision that I need to start focusing my collection on a few themes. It’s like a right of passage for art collectors and it’s really tough! For example, one [...]
Amateur Art Collector checks out the Affordable Art Fair, NYC
Posted in Events, tagged Affordable Art Fair, Allison Edge, art, art fairs, Gigi Cifali, Like the Spice Gallery, Robert Ryan, Ross Racine, TAG Fine Arts on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Friday after work, I stopped by the 2009 Affordable Art Fair for a couple hours. The Fair, located this year at 7 West 34th Street, features 60 or so galleries- surprisingly an international bunch- that keep their prices within the $100-$10,000 range. It’s open this weekend on Saturday from 12-8pm and on Sunday from [...]
Cuban-U.S. gov’t relations influence art trade
Posted in Events, News, tagged Alberto Korda, American foreign relations, art, Che Guevara, Cuba, Cuban art, Guerrillero Heroico on May 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Reuters U.K. published a pretty substantive article yesterday about how the slightly warming inter-governmental relations of the United States and Cuba is reigniting an interest from U.S.-based individual and institutional collectors in Cuban art. Check it out. I’m not familiar with contemporary Cuban artists (maybe that will change, as the article suggests, as the Obama [...]
Thoughtful review of MoMA’s “Into the Sunset…” exhibit
Posted in Exhibitions, Reviews, tagged American West, art, Darius Kinsey, Into the Sunset, MoMA, photography on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve read quite a few reviews of the new MoMA exhibit “Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West,” but I would recommend the slide-show essay by Sarah Boxer at Slate. Sarah is really thoughtful about the perceptions the larger public has of certain geographic regions because of the images to which it has been exposed. [...]
Amazing fundraiser at Santa Monica Museum of Art!
Posted in Auctions, Events, tagged art, Ed Ruscha, fundraiser, Gary Baseman, John Baldessari, Phillips de Pury & Company, Raymond Pettibon, Santa Monica Museum of Art on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps the best idea for a fundraising event ever (after date auctions!), the Santa Monica Museum of Art sells tickets to donors for $300 that allow them to select from over 650 original 8”x10” pieces of art donated by a variety of artists. Part of the excitement comes from the fact that the artists’ names [...]
Demand fine art in your hotel room!
Posted in Indulgences, tagged art, hotel art, Lee Friedlander, Thompson LES on May 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just got back from a work conference in Philadelphia where we were put up at a Sheraton near the U. Penn campus. While the room set up was perfectly fine, the only decorative elements were these framed circa 1990s posters of a nearby arboretum. For goodness sake, there’s just too much good art in [...]
Rago posts catalogs for May fine art sales
Posted in Auctions, tagged affordable art auctions, art, auction catalogs, post-war and contemporary sale, Rago, Sol LeWitt on April 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For those art collectors (like myself) who can’t swing the six/seven/eight figure works that we dream of owning, I recommend you check out the fine arts catalogs posted today by Rago auction house for their mid-May sales. Both the 19th/20th century sale of American and European work as well as the post-war and contemporary sale [...]
Prisoner art story and my newly-framed chalk portrait
Posted in Indulgences, tagged art, chalk portrait, naive art, outsider art, Queens Museum of Art, The People's Art on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Long night due to a work event, so a really short post– but I was inspired to share this neat article from the New York Daily News about an auction of prisoner art that just took place to support an organization that encourages inmates to create artwork while studying for their GEDs. Some of the [...]
International photo festival draws to a close
Posted in Artists, Events, tagged art, Daniel Traub, International Fashion and Photography Festival, Philadelphia, photography on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While the ten photographers (including five Americans) being featured in this year’s International Fashion and Photography Festival are described as “emerging,” many of them have been producing quality work for well over a decade. One such example is the artist Daniel Traub, whose “Two Boys, North Philadelphia” is pictured above. This particular image struck me [...]
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