By Maria Brito May, 26 2010 Contemporary art is always a hot topic, but never more so than in the last ten or fifteen years. There are many reasons for this, but one of the biggest has been the high cost of collecting. The price for top-tier artists was over-the-top for a long period of [...]
By SHELLY BANJO JUNE, 7 2010 Retired real-estate investor and art collector Howard Farber dislikes traveling and politics, doesn’t speak Spanish and spent years resisting Cuban art to focus on his Chinese art collection. After a 2001 trip to Cuba, he says everything changed. Mr. Farber bought a drawing by artist Carlos Estevez to “whet his [...]
Margarita Paksa and Horacio Zabala: ‘Analogies & Differences’ By Holland Cotter MAY, 27 2010 This show pairs small-scale work, mostly on paper, by two Argentine artists little seen in New York. Each grew up in Buenos Aires during years of civic trauma; each has packed responses to a deadly era into the art. Margarita Paksa [...]
Instead of following the market, curators need to provide leadership By David Barrie | From issue 214, June 2010 Published online 11 Jun 10 (opinion) The UK has a long, inglorious history of curatorial insularity when it comes to contemporary art. In the first half of the 20th century our museums and galleries missed countless opportunities [...]
Posted by Valentina Tintori May 31,2010 A new generation of Latin American artists are ensuring that works from the region are attracting international buyers in increasing numbers. Up until thirty years ago the majority of works coming out of the region were purchased by wealthy Latin American families who would often build their collections up [...]
By Maria Brito New York Art critics, curators, gallerists and just plain fans can spend hours writing about this brilliant Brazilian artist who lives in Brooklyn and whose name is Vik Muniz. I love Vik, collect him, and truly believe that he is one of the greatest contemporary artists of the 21st century. “Mass” -Created [...]
Latin American art is the combined artistic expressions of South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico, as well as Latin American living in other regions. The art has roots in many different indigenous cultures that inhabited the Americas before the European colonization in the 16th century. The indigenous cultures each developed sophisticated artistic disciplines, highly influenced [...]
AGAINST PLUNDERING THE MUSEUMS: In support of Fortfying them Press Release Petition for the Museums 18th May 2010 Renewed crisis in Venezuelan museums and the future of its collections Recent declarations made by the current Minister of Popular Power for Culture regarding his decision to move all the collections of artworks belonging to national museums [...]
By Lindsay Pollock In her new column, Lindsay Pollock examines how prices at auction can remain high despite the downturn From issue 213, May 2010 Published online 28 Apr 10 (market) The reign of Alberto Giacometti’s emaciated Walking Man I as the world’s priciest trophy at auction is likely to be short-lived. The six-foot tall bronze, which [...]
Carlos Cruz Diez: The Embodied Experience of Color March 20 – June 20, 2010 Related events and programs: Members Preview: Carlos Cruz Diez: The Embodied Experience of Color Thursday, March 18, 2010 Conversation between Carlos Cruz Diez and Rina Carvajal, exhibition curator, 6:30pm (doors open 6pm) Hors d’oeuvres and donation bar, 7-9pm Exclusively for MAM members Exhibition [...]