Old Timer
Selling antiques is a tricky and ever-changing affair. What, today, constitutes an antique? “Antique” is in the eye of the beholder as times change.
A New Solstice Celebration
A few years back, I attended a Winter Solstice celebration, which a time for reflection on the impulses, desires, and needs that surface that time of year.
No Respect – And a Sigh of Relief
European collectors were uninterested in American art until the 1950s, so those dealers don’t have to worry about lawsuits from European Jewish heirs.
Rosemary
Rosemary Mayer, who died in 2014, is having quite the posthumous career. In the past few years, her work has been shown in New York, Germany, and England.
Hope Springs Eternal
Two stories about art captured the general attention this past month. The first embodied every thrift store visitor’s dream, something that has kept the Antiques Roadshow franchise in business since 1977. It invites visions of “That could happen to me!”
In the Pink
As any retailer will tell you, presentation is everything. Painters, as retailers hoping to sell objects they make, have to consider how those objects are best presented. If a painting is to be framed, what kind of frame will present it to best advantage? Not framing a painting is also an aesthetic choice…
About to Get Shafted Again
The Appraisers Association of America is releasing a new edition of its handbook Appraising Art next spring, and I was asked to contribute a chapter on appraising the art of the American West. Since finishing my chapter, I’ve been thinking about how different my contribution would have been if it had been written, say, 30 years ago…
The Shelf-Life of Evil
The Appraisers Association of America is releasing a new edition of its handbook Appraising Art next spring, and I was asked to contribute a chapter on appraising the art of the American West. Since finishing my chapter, I’ve been thinking about how different my contribution would have been if it had been written, say, 30 years ago…
Another Kind of Art
The Supreme Court just came out with a ruling that caught the attention of the art world as well as the general press. It involved the appropriation by Andy Warhol of a photo that had been taken by photographer Lynn Goldsmith of the pop star Prince, and it dealt with...
The Votes Are In
I was on a business swing through the Midwest recently and visited the Art Institute of Chicago to view Salvador Dali: The Image Disappears, the first exhibition at the museum to be devoted to the work of the artist most...
