How a pivotal moment launched a successful career for this emerging Toronto-based artist. At this point in her career, you’ll find artist Erin Armstrong’s loosely-rendered figurative paintings gracing the walls of international galleries and art fair booths, but that wasn’t always the case. Af
Sometimes called art consultants or corporate art consultants, art advisors provide advice to help clients buy and sell art. If a client is buying art, the advisor will source works of art, negotiate sales, ensure authenticity, introduce buyers to art market experts, and maybe even bid on the client
An inside look on the late collector’s upcoming auction at Sotheby’s, featuring groundbreaking female artists and photographers of the 20th century. Ginny Williams transformed museum institutions with her pioneering support for (and friendships with) many of today’s leading women artists. Will
After its postponement, we were waiting for Art Basel in IRL (in real life), and all top collectors and dealers had already booked their usual room at the Le Trois Rois. However, between podcasts and webinars where the art world discussed if and how it will survive and whether collectors are n
Rosales reimagines classical and religious paintings typically reserved for white bodies and depicts Black women as how they ought to be recognized — powerful and beautiful. As an Afro-Cuban American child, Harmonia Rosales was captivated by the masterful Renaissance compositions, but didn’t
British painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is best known for her portraits of fictitious subjects painted in muted colors, often caught in unexpected moments of action or contemplation. Although her work has contributed to the renaissance in painting the black figure, if you look carefully, the artist al
It’s no secret that the art market has historically been a white male-dominated domain. According to Artnet, more than $196.6 billion has been spent on art at auction between 2008 and the first five months of 2019. Of this, work made by women accounts for just $4 billion—around 2 percen
The CEO of Bukowskis talks about how she transformed a 150-year-old Scandinavian auction house into a data-driven business. It’s not often that one becomes CEO of a 150-year-old Scandinavian fine art and antique auction house, especially after just one year at the company and one year in the art w