On Thursday, January 30, East Side House Settlement hosted the annual Young Collectors Night at The Winter Show, held at the Park Avenue Armory. More than 700 young decorative arts and art professionals and enthusiasts, philanthropists, collectors, and interior designers gathered for the lively event....
I know where the da Vinci is. All kinds of sources, including the “New York Times,” are saying that “Christ as Salvator Mundi,” the $450 million painting that sold in 2017, is apparently ‘missing.’ This is utter nonsense. It is under my bed in Brooklyn. I keep it there, wrapped...
Hats off to the Brooklyn Museum curatorial team: the title of the new Frida Kahlo show, “Appearances Can Be Deceiving,” is probably the most appropriate and fitting title for this exhibition that contains 300 odds and ends that pertain to Frida’s life and career. (Disclaimer: fewer than a dozen...
The world of South and East Asian antiquities is generally very regular. After all, not a whole lot changes when it comes to ceramics and deities from centuries past. That said, this annual March showcase of Asia Week in New York appears to be an unusual one in terms of the discussion around Asian art,...
I first met Joan Robledo-Palop when my colleague inquired by happenstance about an available Sonia Delaunay from Robledo-Palop’s gallery, Zeit Contemporary Art. We were hoping to include the Delaunay in a show curated by the art advising company I work for, Samuels Creative. We then proceeded to meet...
As the art world has grown and becomes less hierarchical, Outsider Art has increased in popularity. Held in New York, since 1993, and premiering in Paris ten years later, The Outsider Art Fair is central for the dissemination of Outsider art. Programming at folk art museums, traveling museum shows, and sales...
The first abstract modernist, Hilma af Klint was a visionary painter whose imaginative works predated her famous contemporaries, such as Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Delaunay, and Piet Mondrian. Born in 1862 in Stockholm, Sweden, she was educated in the classical tradition and was well known for her portraits...
Sometimes, it only takes an art appreciator’s eye (plus forensic research and appraisals, of course) to identify a dusty attic antique as a multi-million dollar masterpiece. In corners of homes across the world, valuable paintings from masters such as da Vinci, Gentileschi, and have resurfaced and...
