Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“Ordinarily, I feel a sense of solidarity in isolation with other artists. I feel it even more during our enforced isolation.”
Art Collections
Interview
The Notorious Stefan Simchowitz on Art Dealing, Social Media, and Faith in Art
I caught up with Simchowitz while he rode around in his gray Porsche S.U.V., crossing errands off his list in Miracle Mile.
Interview
Collectors of Color on the Importance of Supporting Under-Recognized Artists
In Los Angeles, a group of forward-thinking collectors is focused on building and championing diversity through the work they select.
News
Crunching the Numbers Behind the Boom in Private Art Museums
What kind of person opens a private contemporary art museum?
Art
New York's Little-Known Collection of American Artist Palettes
Started in 1871 as an artist sketch club, the Salmagundi Club continues to operate out of the last surviving lower Fifth Avenue brownstone in Manhattan.
Art
Thoughts on Stefan Simchowitz from Berlin
BERLIN — He’s back, but he never truly went away. Art collector/dealer/advisor/“flipper” Stefan Simchowitz, by virtue of a long exposé in the New York Times Magazine on Sunday, is again on the lips and fingertips of artists, art pros, and now mainstream culture vultures everywhere.
Art
A Demographic Breakdown of the World's 200 Top Art Collectors
Hyperallergic has taken it on ourselves to crunch the numbers and scan the demographics of ARTnews magazine's top 200 art collectors in the world.
Interview
Reviving the Spirit of an Artist Through His Personal Collection
In the story of postwar American art, the middle of the country typically gets short shrift. The work coming out of Chicago in the 1960s and ’70s was gleefully weird, darkly surreal, and mostly figurative; for that, it was mostly overlooked, along with its practitioners. One of the biggest and most
Art
Reverend, Collector, and Unlikely Tastemaker: The Story of Al Shands
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Long before Reverend Al Shands bought his first contemporary artwork, he founded an Episcopal church that met weekly at a Washington, D.C. seafood restaurant. “I find the wholesome, institutional nature of the church rather boring. But I do not find religion boring. To pray, I
Opinion
No Comment: Art Collecting Tips from WSJ
Tip #10: "Be prepared to hang onto the art you buy for some time. One of the major selling points for any work at auction is that it is fresh to the market. Buying today and selling tomorrow is out." The full list is here [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204542404577158551809756644.htm
News
The Relocation of the Barnes Foundation Gets a Second Green Light
Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, will now also boast one of the world's most impressive art collections. Forbes reported today that Judge Stanley Ott upheld his ruling that allows the Barnes Foundation to move its estimated $25 billion art collection from the suburb of Merion, Pennsylvania
News
Amazing Art Stat of the Day: "Collectors" Art Isn't Reaching
Carter Cleveland of art startup Artsy claimed at an event last night that, "For every household that buys fine art in US, there are 37 households with the same average income that don't." So I asked him to elaborate.