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The Art Buying Hierocracy
Wednesday, January 9th, 20081. Buy Originals 2. Buy Original Prints (Signed by the artist, numbered, small editions) 3. Reproductions (Signed, numbered, small editions) 4. Reproductions (Signed, open editions) It goes without saying that if you can buy an original piece of art…do so! The reality is, however, that budgets and art buying tastes aren’t always in balance. For [...]
Gallery Language: 101
Thursday, November 15th, 2007Have you ever felt intimidated when you walk into a high-end gallery or a museum? It’s as if the staff went through special training to appear more sophisticated and intelligent that the rest of human kind. The reality is that many gallery staffers are not as well-read about art as they should be, and their [...]
Buy Art That Speaks to You
Thursday, November 15th, 2007Have you ever heard people say that you should buy art that speaks to you? What if the art says nothing, but you still think it would match your sofa? Should you buy it anyway? While matching the sofa is a practical issue, it is more important to buy art that you love and that [...]
The Great Masters: If they were painting today, how would they stack up?
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007In the November issue of ARTnews, Sarah Bayliss and Ann Landis asked industry experts throughout the world who they thought would be famous artists 105 years from now. The article ran the gamut of marquis experts from the Director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, the senior curator of Asian Art at New York’s Guggenheim [...]
Raw Talent
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007“Every time we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself.” Jean Piaget As children we start out with no inhibitions about what we think or what we draw. We believe everything is good. Our early drawings of a house, a tree, and the dog down the street are all wonderful works [...]
Reading Art: Finding Your Pink Giraffe
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007I was listening to one of our favorite collectors explore a Skynear piece on the back wall of the gallery the other day and it got me to thinking about how people read art. After several minutes of contemplation, our collector exclaimed that she could see a pink giraffe in the abstract landscape. Jumping to [...]