An original Henri Matisse (1869-1954) etching, “La Cite-Notre Dame”, at $2,500 is one of the higher priced works recently added to the extensive inventory available for sale online at Affordable Art 101.
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Gallerist Sonya Sparks is focused. As a native of San Diego with an avid interest in both art and business, this young entrepreneur was aware that there were few options for the many artists who live and work in this southern California town to show and sell their work.
The non-profit contemporary art organization, KADIST, in San Francisco and the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston have teamed up with joint exhibitions to examine the archival conditions of memory, ritual, and interconnectivity.
On January 23, 1944, Edvard Munch died peacefully in his sleep in Ekely, Norway, and the world lost an artist who would become one of the most well-known of the 20th century, thanks to his iconic artworks, “The Scream” chief amongst them.
Edges of Ailey, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is an exhibition that investigates, reveals, and honors the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey. Ailey was born in Rogers, Texas in 1931 and suffered the harsh realities of the south, before relocating with his mother to Los Angeles, California in 1942.
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.
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.
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.
Ballet played a formative role in the life of gallerist Susan Eisner Eley. In an interview with Art & Object, Eley explained, “I danced through my entire childhood. I danced through school. But when I majored in Art History at Brown University, it was a discovery. I knew this was it!”
