Global art stars are in the birthday show for the SP Bienal SILAS MARTÍ FROM SÃO PAULO 27/09/2011 For:  Folha.com   A cow and a calf cut in half float in a tank full of formaldehyde. This spectacle of attraction and repulsion occupies a central space in the pavilioin of the Bienal of São Paulo, at [...]

Latin American women artists hit the big time By Latin American Art Journal Lygia Clark, Doris Salcedo, Tania Brueger, Beatriz Milhares, Priscilla Monge. The list could go on forever, but these are just a few of the women artists from the vast continent of Latin America who are now becoming household names on the international [...]

Alfredo Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile in 1956. He attended Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura, Santiago (1979) and Universidad de Chile, Santiago (1981). In installations, photographs, film, and community-based projects, Jaar explores the public’s desensitization to images and the limitations of art to represent events such as genocides, epidemics, and famines. Jaar’s work bears witness [...]

Top Billionaire Art Collectors Keren Blankfeld, Cristina von Zeppelin and Susan Adams,07.24.09, 10:00 AM EDT for Forbes.com Despite one of the worst art market slumps in years, these individuals all have collections worth $700 million or more.     Suffering from one of its worst years in recent memory, the art world got a boost [...]

    What is the difference between a “CONSERVATOR” and a “RESTORER”? Many people are confused about the difference between an art conservator and a restorer.  To the layperson there is seemingly no difference and the terms are used interchangeably.  However, this is very much not the case and the gulf between “restoration” and “conservation” [...]

By Anny Shaw | From Armory daily edition, 4 Mar 11 Published online 4 Mar 11 Edited by Valentina Tintori Artists love it as a medium, but are collectors and dealers too busy for time-based work at an art fair?   Collecting video art Despite the relatively recent popularity of videos at art fairs, there are [...]

Beatriz Milhazes (born 1960) is a Brazilian artist. Milhazes is known for her work juxtaposing Brazilian cultural imagery and references to western Modernist painting. The daughter of a lawyer and an art historian, Milhazes was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960.[2] She studied social communication at Faculdades Integradas Hélio Alonso (FACHA), Rio De Janeiro [...]

By Maria Brito Dec, 2010 My yearly tradition is to attend Art Basel Miami Beach. The ninth edition of the tropical “baby sister” of the original Swiss fair is actually becoming as important, if not more so, than its European “big sister”. I love everything about Art Basel, the fair and its satellites, as well [...]

by Javier Lumbreras Art plays a fundamental role in the history of man; in their culture, spirituality, intellectuality and finances. For centuries, art was reserved for the elite members of society. In this day and age, while understanding the complexities of a composition does require some degree of education and sophistication, anyone who has the [...]

It was an intimate chat between a man and a woman in a bedroom that turned Rob Orley into an art collector five years ago. ”I felt I could feel the conversation,” says Orley of the Christian Vincent painting that inflamed his passion for American-modern figurative art–a representational genre that seeks to depict humanity with [...]