With the ability to choose from thousands of paintings to purchase from highly respected galleries, museum shows, and art auctions, what factors influence a patron’s decision to commission a specific artwork? And conversely, why do some artists accept commissions while others do not? Galleries often play...
George Matthews has lent his expertise to everything from real estate and oil investments to cattle operations and managing the game ranch he and his wife, Betsy, own in the Texas Hill Country. The couple maintains several residences, but they are especially endeared to the...
Western and Native American art sales so far for 2020, a year slated to be remembered for a global pandemic and economic challenges, prove that you can’t keep a good auction down. Events carried on amid difficulties, with some venues opting to go entirely online and...
A couple years ago, I fell asleep in a hotel room painted with sky blue walls and puffy clouds with faces on them; a little girl in ceremonial dress sat cross-legged, and a city on a hilltop rose in the distance. Above me, the ceiling...
Heavy Metal Pendants from Buster + Punch “Street-inspired” describes the work of Buster + Punch, a London-based fashion label that patented these precision-cut pendants and their bayonet-style light bulbs. Designer, founder, and architect Massimo Buster Minale started his company in an East London garage, influenced by...
“When Kate and Vera started the company, they deliberately gave it the name Arterra versus using their names,” says Gretchen Whittier, a partner at Arterra Landscape Architects. “The intention was that the company was going to be bigger than either of them.” Arterra — a combination...
His face was that of a Renaissance prince. His dark hair framed it, his piercing eyes glared, and a crooked nose — broken in childhood — looked permanently out of joint. Though often dressed in overalls and a T-shirt, he wore a trim mustache that...
There’s a canoe hanging from the ceiling of Dick Idol’s art studio, and it’s not just any old boat. Purchased from a fur trade museum in Michigan more than 35 years ago, this 16.5-foot Ojibwa birch bark canoe was made between 1850 and 1880 in Northern...
In a time when challenges and uncertainties abound, it’s reassuring to learn that artists, art dealers, and collectors are doing what they do best: seeking to support those activities that raise the spirits and the reflections of humankind. Art is a signal method toward that...
Were Obi Kaufmann simply a watercolorist producing subtly exquisite works of surpassing immediacy, that would be enough. Were he merely a writer of thought-provoking, poetic prose, that would also suffice. But the fact that the 47-year-old creative polymath combines those talents and focuses them on...