When gallerist Guy Lyman answered the phone for our Art & Object interview, he had just driven ten hours from his gallery in New Orleans to his daughter’s home in Texas to escape the potential consequences of Category 2 hurricane Francine as it was making landfall in Louisiana.
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Celebrating its 20 year anniversary, ARTBO is Colombia’s preeminent fair shining a light on Colombian art of the last 50 years. Welcoming galleries from all over the country, as well as South and Central American and beyond, the fair offers space for collectors on a global level to invest in Colombian art and art largely focused on Latin America.
After years of hanging unsuspectingly in an Italian family home, a portrait that has now been attributed to Pablo Picasso is on the verge of official authentication. The titleless work, thought to be of Picasso’s long-time muse and mistress Dora Maar, was found in 1962 by a man named Luigi Lo Rosso, while cleaning out a cellar in Capri.
In a broad sense, art and science have always occupied two sides of the same coin.
A sense of interconnectedness resides at the heart of mixed-media artist Rose B. Simpson’s work. In Seed, to produce the least amount of steel plate waste for her monumental figural “stylized abstractions,” Simpson puzzle-pieced the sections to fit together– in part as “a metaphor for our connection.”
To say Olafur Eliasson is a light and space artist is to reduce him to the fundamental elements of his practice.
Movement-based sculptor Brie Ruais– whose work was featured in Phaidon’s 2017 global survey of 100 of today's most important clay and ceramic artists, Vitamin C: Clay + Ceramic– currently has a solo show in New York City.
Africa sits as the world’s second-largest continent and holds an intriguing and extraordinary history. Among its 54 distinctive countries, the genesis of developed humanity in Ethiopia rests. Possessing a culture of spiritualism and strength, its subsequent works of art cannot be understated.
Art dealers, particularly those who have reached the heights of Scottish-born author/gallerist Michael Findlay (b.1945), are not known for openly sharing the nuts and bolts of a profession that thrives on exclusivity and lives and dies by “who-you-know.”
The distinct accent acquired during an untraditional childhood raised on a hippie commune in the Australian outback can still be heard in the voice of gallerist Om Bleicher, who now divides his time between his native Brisbane and bG Gallery, the art emporium he founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, California.
