Creative Art News·1d agoEveryone Has Taste. Almost Nobody Has a Plan for Buying Art.Why I write a newsletter about the art world for people who are very good at everything except buying art.
amiraphist·4d agoThe Best Art on X Is Hiding in the Replies. I Built Something to Find It.The best art on X is buried twenty scrolls deep
Dion Abadi·5d agoBuying a Painting at Auction? Ask Whether the Frame Is IncludedA beautiful frame can make a painting look finished, and a bad one can make a good painting look tired. Before I bid, I always ask one…
HELEA Gallery·5d agoStanding Still in Front of a Painting: A Ten-Minute ExperimentIn a museum, we spend about twenty seconds in front of a single painting. That’s less time than it takes to pick a sticker in a messaging…
HELEA Gallery·Nov 3The Art of Pleasing Everyone: What Lies Behind Kitsch in PaintingThe word ‘kitsch’ first appeared in Munich in the second half of the nineteenth century, and over the following century and a half it has…
Dion Abadi·Nov 2Buying a Painting at Auction? Ask to See the BackMost bidders only look at the front of a painting. That makes sense, because the front is what you will hang on the wall. But the back of a…
Creative Art News·Nov 1Your Parents Bought the Picasso. You’d Rather Have the Liquidity.By Arushi Kapoor. This essay first appeared on her Substack, Arushi Kapoor-Curated.
DV·Oct 31Mozambique: A Dark Structure Alive with ColourIn Gheorghe Virtosu’s work 97 of 249, red, yellow, green, and white divide an imposing dark silhouette into a restless network of…
DV·Oct 31Morocco: When Red Breaks into RhythmGheorghe Virtosu’s work 37 of 249 moves from a densely gathered centre into a sequence of slender red forms, making separation part of its…
Dion Abadi·Oct 30Buying a Painting at Auction? Make Sure It Isn’t a Print on CanvasSome of the most common questions I get from new bidders are about paintings that turn out to be prints. Today a reproduction can be…
