What is good for Warren Buffett is good for art. Frieze week is around the corner and the inevitable questions about the art market come up. Is it the right time to buy art? Will a purchase sustain its value?
Ahead of Frieze art fair, the following weeks I will be covering auction highlights, artworks to collect from the fair, the quirky and the overlooked. As a warm up, this week I am filling up your calendar with a hand-picked list of gallery openings in Mayfair. A selection of three contemporary art history totems. The three of them poetic, unruly, unmissable.
Preparations for Frieze London are in the air. I am crawling the city day and night so that you don’t have to! I am bringing you a selection of the most exciting exhibitions in London’s commercial galleries. The coming weeks are packed with openings and events. Stay in the loop!
Studio_Leigh opened in September 2015. To celebrate the first year anniversary of one of the most innovative emerging art spaces in London, I am dedicating this article to revisit a selection of the gallery’s limited edition commissions. With a sharp eye, Studio_Leigh spots talent that you will be hearing a lot of in the future. Catch them before they skyrocket!
“I called some paintings perspectives but I’m not interested in perspective; I called some butterflies but I don’t think they are butterflies; I call my sculptures masks but they are not masks.” —Mark Grotjahn
Functionality and art’s use value bring art and design intricately linked together. The domestic and our relationship with art in lived environments implies that we surround ourselves with objects which inspire us and in turn give away our interests and taste. Without a doubt, art defines our identity. Also, in the most mundane daily activities like eating, seating or reading we can find joy, drama, glimpses of the surreal or, why not, peculiar challenges through the objects themselves that we use.