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Art Collecting Tip #7
Image from the exhibition Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925, Museum of Modern Art, December 23, 2012–April 15, 2013.
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At White Box, over the past 15 years, we have witnessed artists of all stripes, including poets, composers, photographers, filmmakers, choreographers and painters, exhibit a variety of media, ranging from sculptural installations to new media and video & performance. Continue reading
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Art Collecting Tip #6
Christo, Wrapped Vespa (Project) 1963-64. 1963-64. A.P. 10/45. Hand-collaged lithograph, digital pigment print with collage of brown wrapping paper, with handmade wax crayon additions. 12 1/16 x 12 1/16 inches.
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“Making money is art, and working is art, and good business is the best art.” – Andy Warhol
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ART COLLECTING TIP #5
Alighiero Boetti L’undicesimo giorno di settembre 1988, 1988, Embroidery, 42 1/8 x 43 1/4 in.
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The below Art Collecting Tip is meant to be a recommendation to reflect on conceptual work that is formally pleasing and, why not, beautiful: Aleghiero Boetti’s work at Barbara Gladstone Gallery. You may not be able to afford it but it certainly helps thinking of buying something akin, from among the many younger artists who follow the traditions that involve “language”.
The Boetti show is simply put: stunning and compelling in its codified messages. It for the first time ever, displays nearly every type of Boetti’s Arazzi grandi series. These works, of messages in both Italian and Farsi, are each distinct in their recording of the date they were created and contain an elaborate internal code that prescribes the order of the sentences. Continue reading
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ART COLLECTING TIP #4
Rob Tarbell, 3 pieces from exhibition Bird – Like Things in Things Like Trees, 2012, Ink on paper in acrylic frame, 13 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches
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Most people agree that Kandinsky was one of the greatest “abstract” artists. One needs to only look at works from his pivotal series (total of 3) titled, Improvisations, Impressions and Compositions, in which he consistently denaturalizes the images and definitively breaks with representational art, moving into what is called “non-objective art”. A collector interested in “abstraction” is well advised to peruse Kandinsky’s Manifesto, The Spiritual in Art, in which he argues that the nature of art and its duty are to be spiritual and an expression of “inner needs”. Continue reading
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Art Collecting Tip #3
Installation view of exhibition Blind Date, at White Box, 2007, featuring work by William Anastasi and Lucio Pozzi, who for six hours were blindfolded while drawing using a variety of pencils. Their day-long performance turned into a meditation translated on paper.
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Lots of new collectors wonder about the “investment” aspect of collecting. The distinction between investing and collecting is not necessarily clear-cut. Why can’t someone be both an investor and collector? Continue reading
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Art Collecting Tip #2
View from our 2012 Spring Benefit Auction Honoring Ai Weiwei
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See as much as possible. Mark Bishak recommends you Make a game of it.
“Pick a friend, any friend. You are the “Collector” and your friend is the “Art Advisor”. Go to several art galleries with your “Art Advisor” and play your roles. Make a night of it, a day of it, or a long weekend of it; just always be playing the roles.
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ART COLLECTING TIP #1
William Wegman. 45 Degrees, 2005. Pigment print, 8.5 x 11 inches. Edition 8/30
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What advice would you give to a new collector?
When it comes to collecting art, the more you see, the more you know and the better you’ll be at not only deciding which works to purchase, but also to develop a sense of what you like and don’t like. Continue reading
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IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO
By Carla Stellweg
On Tuesday Oct 23rd, I spent the evening at the Emily Harvey Foundation listening to Eduardo Costa & John Perreault on the occasion of the launch of New York “Tape Poems” sound-tape-book. The event was organized by Joao Simoes, a Portuguese new media artist who has shown at White Box back in 2007. In addition, Eduardo Costa is a long time friend of White Box, and a very generous one indeed.
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