Collecting
This week in our video series Eye on Art, Matthew Drutt, Executive Director of the Blouin Cultural Advisory Group, takes us along to three shows in Chelsea that all utilize technology and loud sounds at the core of the works on display. He checks out the...
“You just have so much knowledge in one room,” says Chicago dealer Catherine Edelman, president of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), of the group’s 33rd annual Photography Show, on view at the Park Avenue Armory April 4...
Before Jean-Michel Basquiat could afford studios and canvases, he painted all over his apartments — on walls, doors, refrigerators, and any other bare surface he could find. In 1979, the still unknown artist began transforming his girlfriend Alexis Adler’s...
Visitors entering John Axelrod’s spacious town house apartment in Boston’s Back Bay are met by Myrna Loy, an affable Australian terrier, and an eruption of graffiti art by the likes of Dondi, Crash, and Lady Pink invading an environment of pristine walls,...
The Bonhams Australia sale of works from the collection of recently deceased art collector Colin Laverty at the Museum of Contemporary Art on 24 March will be one of the most closely watched art auctions in recent years. Featuring a range of works by some of...
Art economist Clare McAndrew’s unveiling of the annual TEFAF market report has become a tradition — generally giving the art world the most in-depth industry analysis it will get all year. This year doesn't disappoint. Overall...
BEIJING — On May 23, Hong Kong will become the third location to have an international contemporary art fair that bears the Art Basel name. More than half of the participating galleries at Art Basel Hong Kong are based in Asia. Speaking at a news...
Matthew Drutt, Executive Director of the Blouin Cultural Advisory Board, takes us on a tour of the 2013 Armory Show, looking for the art fair's hidden gems. Some of his favorites include: Julianne Swartz at Josée Bienvenu Gallery, Francis M....
The Armory Show may be celebrating its centennial, but young artists — and the collectors who support them — dominated the VIP opening. For one thing, the Armory Show’s Focus section, with energetic crowds and sales, wasn’t this year’s sideshow.“...
The crowd at Sotheby’s New York on the evening of December 12 was nervous — and not in a good way. It was the first of three sessions devoted to photographs from the collection of philanthropist Henry Buhl, and not many in the room had high hopes. “Two...
