As art advisors, we often get questions about how to build and display an art collection. There’s a lot to cover on this topic, so we’re beginning a new Collector’s Series that reveals our best practices on all things relevant to collecting: how to properly light art in your home, how to frame, and much more. If you have any topics that you would like us to cover, drop us a line via socials or email! Hanging Out With Art Today, we’re focusing on different methods of display and how they affect your collecting habits. Our number one piece of advice for building a collection: buy what you ..read more

In memory of Fernando Botero Left: Danilo Cuadros, Vacío Ciego, Resin, Metal, Graphite and Laquer, 40 x 8 x 11 inches. Right: Visit to the Museo de Antioquia   For much of the last century, Medellín was known as the capital of Colombia’s civil conflict as a result of drug lord Pablo Escobar and the global cocaine trade. In recent years, though, as the violence subsided, the city has gradually acquired its due recognition as a global capital of arts and culture. It was this burgeoning reputation that drew me to the city this past May! The city’s vital art scene is reflected in the ..read more

Photographic print by Edward Burtynsky. Image via Home World Design and David Scott Interiors. Today is World Water Day! This day of observance was coined by the UN to raise awareness about unequal access to freshwater resources and the threat to vital ecosystems posed by environmental destruction and unsustainable management. Today, we’re highlighting artists who depict the element of water in their unique oeuvres. These artists help raise awareness by producing novel ways of viewing the essential element, inviting us to broaden our perspective of the life-giving resource. Katherine Takp ..read more

Anna Weyant, Falling Woman, 2020. Estimate: $150,000-$200,000. Sale Price: $1,623,000. Christie’s. As we ring in the New Year, we are taking note of several artists that stood out in 2022, many of whom garnered auction results which far exceeded their estimates. The contemporary market is booming and young artists are achieving astoundingly high prices with increasing frequency. Emerging artists Anna Weyant, Flora Yuknovich, and Lucy Bull shot way past the million dollar mark last year. Yaknovich’s lush rococo-esque work, I’ll Have What She’s Having, sold for over twenty times ..read more

Saturn P (2010) by David Zimmerman hanging in the living room of Pierre Yovanovitch’s Chateau in the south of France. Image via House and Garden. Artists and designers have long been fascinated with the notion of iridescence; the lustrous color changing effect that occurs when light is refracted into a rainbow spectrum. In the early 20th century, Art Deco artists looked to the natural world for inspiration, paying special attention to naturally-occurring iridescence – such as pearlescent seashells, bird feathers, and fish scales. The motifs gleaned from these sources appear frequently in Art D ..read more

Installation view of Keith Haring: Art is for Everyone at The Broad, LA. Photo by Joshua White for Artnet News. As Pride month comes to a close, we wanted to make sure to spotlight the work of Queer artist Keith Haring, whose major retrospective opened at The Broad, LA earlier this month. Haring’s energetic line work and playful figures are a distinct expression of the 1980s streetscape- defined by the convergence of early hip-hop, graffiti culture, pop media, and the fluorescent lights of city nightlife. The exhibition’s title, Art is for Everybody, reflects Haring’s ..read more

Beyond Walls Fresco by Saype at the corner of Mount Royal and Park avenue for Montreal Mural Festival 2023. Photo courtesy of Mtl Blog. The Montreal Mural Festival is in full swing! The festival brings together street artists from around the world to contribute large-scale pieces to the city’s walls and pavements. Pedestrianized throughout the festival, boulevard St. Laurent has been playing host to various shows and block parties featuring local musical talent, in addition to acting as the festival’s main canvas. Though the thoroughfare is the beating heart of the festivities, the ten-ye ..read more

The Shed, New York Ever the epicenter of arts and culture, New York City has always come most alive in the Spring. The city’s art scene is finally in full bloom after years of subdued activity in the wake of the pandemic. Last week’s New York Art Week witnessed the opening of major fairs such as The Independent and TEFAF, as well as a myriad of other gallery shows and exhibitions. The fun is certainly not over yet. This weekend marks the opening of three additional fairs; NADA, Frieze, and VOLTA. Fairs are a unique opportunity to view the selections of an international ..read more

Roy Lichtenstein, Sweet Dreams, Baby!, 1965, Screenprint, Edition of 200, 37 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches The aesthetics of comic books and other animated media entered the realm of fine art when pop-artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein began to parody these forms in the 1960s. The tactic of placing these pieces in the hallowed halls of galleries and museums disrupted traditional distinctions between high art and low-brow culture. Lichtenstein was particularly inspired by the comic strip, using paint to imitate the spotted pattern of printed imagery and expand it to the scale of a larg ..read more

Tammi Campbell, Albers Study #5, 2018, Acrylic on masonite with metal frame, 16 x 16 inches. April Fools! If you thought the gallery forgot to unpack Tammi Campbell’s work before hanging it up, you thought wrong. In a playful mimicry of finicky art handling and commercial reverence for high-modernist works, the artist creates paintings in the styles of Andy Warhol, Josef Albers, and Ed Ruscha (among others), that appear to be wrapped with industrial packing materials. However, the bubble wrap and tape are in fact tromp l’oeil illusions crafted entirely by the artist using silicone mo ..read more