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Our 10 Favorite Sculpture Parks From Around The World
Tony Cragg's sculpture, displayed at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in England (alh1 - Flickr/Creative Commons) | Image source: smithsonianmag.com
Our 10 Favorite Sculpture Parks From Around The World
As an exhibition in the open, accessible to everyone — sculpture parks are an irreplaceable part of the art world. There is a sculpture park in every country, and they serve an important role in introducing people to the world of art, whether that was intended or not. Moreover, in the current times — with…
The Ultimate Guide to Preserve and Protect Your Art
“Blue Fiori Sun” (2013) by Dale Chihuly displayed at the Desert Botanical Garden | Image source: bizjournals.com
How to Best Preserve and Protect Your Art
An art world is a competitive place, and for artists who have spent years perfecting their craft, it can be difficult to find representation. Do you have a valuable piece of art that you would like to protect for generations to come? Do you want to be sure that your work is not lost or…
Hilma af Klint: Pioneering the Spirit of Abstractions
Portrait by Hilma af Klint, around 1900, via The Guggenheim Museum, New York (left); with Adulthood by Hilma af Klint, 1907, via Coeur & Art (right) | Image source: thecollector.com
Hilma af Klint: Pioneering the Spirit of Abstractions
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) is often cited as the father of abstract art. However, much earlier than he created his first abstractions, Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), a Swedish artist, had already developed her own abstract compositions. More precisely, this happened by 1906 — several years before Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, or Kazimir Malevich; yet, they are…
Museum Deaccessions - Ever Ongoing Debate and Dilemma
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Museum Deaccessions – Ever Ongoing Debate and DilemmaWhile letting go of artworks has allowed museums to improve their diversity of collections, attract more traffic to new works, and help continue operations financially, deaccession will always have its detractors and almost certainly pushbacks. This year in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was under scrutiny for its plans to auction off 300…
Greatest Minimalism: Richard Serra and Giant COR-TEN Steel
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Greatest Minimalism: Richard Serra and Giant COR-TEN Steel“I think I’m a transitional figure. If anything, I would call myself a post-structuralist, not a postmodernist. I’m involved with evolution of form, the connection where space and matter meet. One of the things that form constantly has to do is reach a point where it pushes back against content.” - Richard Serra Best known…
The Complex History of the Barnes Foundation
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The Complex History of the Barnes FoundationBorn to a working-class family, Albert C. Barnes was an American chemist and self-made millionaire. Barnes made his fortune as the co-developer of Argyrol in 1899, an antiseptic compound, consisting of silver and a protein, used to treat gonorrhea infections. In 1902, Barnes and co-creator of Argyrol, German chemist Hermann Hille, organized the partnership of…
Lee Krasner the Painter: Bright Star in Her Own Right
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Lee Krasner the Painter: Bright Star in Her Own RightThirty-three years after her passing, abstract expressionist Lee Krasner set a record for her legacy when her painting Shattered Light (1954) sold at Christie’s New York for $5.5 million. And just two years later in 2019, her painting The Eye is the First Circle (1960) shattered that record and doubled it when the painting sold for $11.65 million at…
Art Fairs Model – Good or Bad?
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Art Fairs Model – Good or Bad?According to The Art Market | 2019, the annual global art market analysis by Art Basel and UBS, sales in the global art market reached a staggering $67.4 billion in 2018. The U.S. accounted for 44% of sales, making the nation the largest art market worldwide. With an estimated $16.5 billion, art fair sales account…
Does Size Matter in Art?
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Does Size Matter in Art?In March 2019, New York-based illustrator, sculptor, and street artist Brian Donnelly, best known as KAWS, launched a massive 121-foot-long inflatable sculpture at Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour. The monumental work was pulled out into the waterfront of Tamar Park using tugboats. The work features his signature character, Companion, a gray sculpture modeled after Mickey Mouse whose…