A corporate art collection can be a great asset to any company. Art collections provide the opportunity to support your local arts community. When chosen well, it can boost your brand and it helps to create a positive ambiance...
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An artwork’s journey is part of its story! In today’s article we will explore how the value of your art collection can magnify throughout the years. So let’s begin with an example. Picture yourself at an art auction...
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Imagine watching a piece of your art collection come crashing to the ground. Professional Art Hanger and Storage Specialist Isaac Karner tells the story of a client calling him, frantic, over a shattered antique mirror. “It was strung on a wire,”...
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Alexander Calder’s name has become synonymous with the mobile, a kinetic sculpture propelled by its own equilibrium. In 1930, after years of working with wire—creating complex circus scenes, sculptures of Josephine Baker, horses, elephants, and other subject matter both...
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Sculpture was once considered the domain of ambitious male artists, a medium as challenging in its physicality as it was limitless in scope. But for several decades, artists from Eva Hesse and Senga Nengudi to Phyllida Barlow and Ursula...
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Art and charity make cosy bedfellows and the relationships between them are blooming over the years. For example, the (Red) Auction at Sotheby’s in New York, organised by Damien Hirst and U2 frontman Bono, raised over $42m (£21m) for...
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For many people in their 20s, art collecting can seem like a far-off pipe dream, the preserve of the older and wealthy. Millennials, after all, don’t typically make oodles of money, the average income for college graduates is typically...
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Critics, collectors and curators now use Instagram to share images of art that inspires and intrigues them. Jerry Saltz, the Pulitzer-winning art critic for New York magazine, has 287,000 Instagram followers. Yusaku Maezawa, the Japanese technology entrepreneur and collector...
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Pop art fans, rejoice! The Andy Warhol Foundation will release tens of thousands of the artist’s previously unseen photographs for the first time, including intimate images of the artist’s celebrity friends and lovers. In total, 3,600 contact sheets featuring...
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With all the talk about the struggles of emerging and smaller galleries, much of the commentary has been focused on how fairs can better support galleries, or how galleries can experiment with new models to survive. But what about...
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