A collector shares his tips on how to get started and how to keep going, in a ten-part series for anyone who is curious. Art collecting is love, and love isn’t always easy. The first encounter, a spark. Fascination. The quickening of pulses and shortness of breath. Intoxication in its presence. Then balancing passion and...
Artists and thinkers are prompting us to not only reconsider our relationship with the natural world, but to foster actual change. Artists create imagined and otherworldly landscapes in which to reconsider humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Through luminous horizons, abstracted terrains, immersive scenes, and symbolic references to mountains, water, celestial bodies, and exotic creatures, their...
Researchers found that placing sauces separately can make a dish appear healthier even before tasting. Our experience of eating is shaped by the combined influence of vision, smell, touch, and taste. The way food is presented can shape diners’ expectations before they even taste it. Visual features, such as arrangement and esthetic design, can influence...
Movies by female screenwriters top profit and return on investment rankings, but women are still severely underrepresented in the industry, highlighting a ‘capital allocation puzzle’. When the lights come back on and credits start rolling, it’s easy to see that some of the most successful movies of the last few years – from Avatar: The...
Ahead of fall’s fashion shows, Mahoro Seward explores how art and fashion have moved beyond inspiration and cachet – and asks what comes next Not long ago I came upon an Instagram post by esteemed illustrator Julie Verhoeven highlighting the term ‘fartster’ – coined by the late photographer Duane Michals – as ‘one who confuses...
When photography emerged in the 19th century, many predicted the death of painting. If a machine could reproduce reality more quickly and accurately than any artist, what purpose would painting serve? The response was robust. As photography assumed some of painting’s representational functions, artists became increasingly experimental, developing ever more innovative styles: Impressionism, Expressionism, and eventually...
‘An early work that stands out in my mind is Record for Hattie [1975], which is about my great-aunt Hattie Parson Keys. When she passed, I inherited her ephemera – notes, letters, dance cards, gloves, handkerchiefs – essentially her life’s mementos. I made the piece so long ago, but I think my process is the same to...
Gallerists, aristocrats, and curators are finding fresh uses for the grand salons and parklands of historic estates to create a summer art boom beyond the UK’s cities ‘The English country house is the greatest contribution made by England to the visual arts,’ wrote the civil servant Sir Ernest Gowers in 1950, at a time when...
Eighteen artefacts from the Kingdom of Benin have been returned to Nigeria by three Swiss museums. The courtly and religious objects are among the famous ‘Benin Bronzes’, which were looted from the Kingdom of Benin – in modern-day Nigeria – at the end of the 19th century. Switzerland also returned to Nigeria five artefacts seized...
Film photography is experiencing a resurrection, summoned by unlikely conjurers: Gen Z. It wasn’t too long ago that analog photography – which uses photographic film and chemical processing – was declared all but dead, relegated to the province of niche hobbyists and professional artists. Digital cameras had taken over nearly all areas of photographic production....