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 ...
Why We Collect
I recently came across an article in DesignMind titled, “The Collective Instinct. Exploring the human inclination to curate: what we keep, why we keep it, and what it means for design.” The article does a great job examining the drive behind our need to organize “things” in our life as they help tell our story ...
Collecting Art on a Budget: If There’s a Will, There’s a Way
It’s a ridiculous misconception that many people have about buying original art: that you have to be rich in order to own a stellar piece of original artwork or to truly understand its value. Frankly, this is bullshit just like the myth that artists are destined to be starving. When it comes down to it, ...
The Color of Money: Selling Out in the Art World
By Cathleen McGuigan, Newsweek Web Exclusive Mar 26, 2010 When Mark Rothko committed suicide in 1970, he left behind hundreds of unsold paintings. Partly, he didn’t want to flood the market, but he also found it hard to part with them. Rothko considered his artworks to be his children, and he didn’t like to send ...