Herman Miller Talk at AMOA & Gallery D Summer Series Kick-Off Event
Design Talk: with John Berry Catch a lecture and visual presentation by design authority John Berry. He’ll draw upon his 16 years of experience working closely with designers at Herman Miller, Inc. to describe how design and a creative culture were key to the company’s success. Berry will explore the role of design in today’s ...
Easy as 1, 2, 3: Man Steals Picasso’s “Tete de Femme”
Slightly before noon on Tuesday, July 5, in San Francisco, a man walk into the Weinstein Gallery. A few moments later, he casually walked out with Picasso’s “Tete de Femme” tucked under his arm. Police are still looking for the suspect. If you know of a 6-foot-tall male between the ages of 30-35 that was ...
QR Code Best Practice & Considerations
I recently watched a webinar on the topic of QR codes. Chris Wayman, VP & General Manager of Mobile Marketing at Merkle, and Mike Ricci, VP of Mobile at Webtrends, provided some excellent information and live examples of QR code use in marketing and advertising. While it’s still available on demand, I highly recommend that ...
Another One Bites the Dust, The Passing of Cy Twombly
The influential and idiosyncratic painter, Cy Twombly, died today at the age of 83. He is known for his feverishly energetic, cryptic scribble paintings that inspired the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat and other neo-Expressionist artists. Mr. Twombly was in love with the process of creating art and experiencing the action within the moment rather than ...
What Happens to Your Art Collection When You Die?
Some art collectors know exactly where their art will go when they pass out of this life. Some may not care. Others, like Dr. Albert C. Barnes, are probably rolling in their graves because they never expected their art collections to end up where they least expected, or wanted, them to go. In THE ART ...
Steve Martin on Art Collecting and His New Book
If you didn’t already know, Steve Martin is ridiculously talented. He is not only an Emmy award-winning actor, playwright, pianist, Grammy award-winning banjo player, comedian, and juggler, but he is also a dedicated artcollector and a very talented novelist. His fascination with art and the art world is featured in many of his works, including ...
Finding Remarkable Art in Unremarkable Places
From Newsweek Online, Sept. 27, 2010 John Foster is a meticulous and savvy collector—”and I do not buy in bulk,” he says. Over the years that he’s been collecting personal photographs from garage sales, antique shops, and eBay—including the last 10 to 12 years of hard-core buying—he’s assembled roughly 1,500 photographs that, to him, represent ...
