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Fine Art of Collecting illuminated at 2012 Fine Art Show

Examiner.com - Jan 25, 2012
There are as many approaches to collecting art as there are collections. Four highly experienced collectors shared their own thoughts on the subject at the 2012 Fine Art Show this weekend at the Los Angeles Convention Center. They described serious art ...

A portrait of the collector

China Daily - Jan 27, 2012
Zhang first became interested in collecting art after a stint as a representative in France of an expensive brand. A friend introduced him to a family who collected a lot of valuable art. "Collecting is like driving a car. When you first get your hands ...

Riverwoods' art collector shows works on death at Chicago Cultural Center

Chicago Sun-Times - Jan 24, 2012
Harris, who is mostly retired from his career as a wholesale antique dealer serving the high-end interior design community, has been collecting art for over 40 years but it is only in the last dozen that his focus has been art related to death.

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Collecting Contemporary Art

by: Adam Lindemann

Words from the wise: insiders' tips on how to navigate the art market like a pro

"Art is about life, the art market is about money." —Damien Hirst

Whether you're an art fan, aficionado, or collector, this completely unique book should be on your required reading list. Like a textbook for a class given by all of the world's leading experts, Collecting Contemporary is the one and only book to teach you everything you ever wanted to know about the contemporary art market.
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Tales from the Art Crypt: The painters, the museums, the curators, the collectors, the auctions, the art

by: Richard Feigen
From one of today's most influential art collectors and dealers: a lively, revealing, sometimes blasphemous, always knowing look into the world of art.

Richard Feigen's fifty years in the art world have given him a unique perspective on its inhabitants and habits. He writes about the painters he has known and represented (among them James Rosenquist, Jasper Johns, Jean Dubuffet, and Joseph Cornell), and about others whose work he has collected. He writes about his galleries in Chicago and New York City, and about his fellow dealers, including Julien Levy and Leo Castelli.
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Scandinavian Glass 1930-2000: Fire & Sea

by: Leslie Pina, Lorenzo Vigier
A tradition of creating beautiful Scandinavian art glass began in the 1930s and continues today. The well known companies Orrefors, Kosta, iittala, Nuutajarvi Notsjo, Holmegaard, Riihimaen Lasi, and other less famous firms, have been on the creative edge of glass design for over three quarters of century. This long-awaited book chronicles their work in color and is a companion to the authors' earlier work on colorless, smoky, and engraved glass. This is the first book to cover all the major and many of the minor companies, revealing how each country (Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Norway) had its particular color palette and style.
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The New Decorating with Pictures : Collecting Art and Photography and Displaying It in Your Home

by: Simon Upton, Stephanie Hoppen

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Art collectors discuss the art of collecting art

Collectors whose work appears in OPEN HOUSE: CINCINNATI COLLECTS at the Contemporary Arts Center answer questions about the idiosyncratic, obsessive, loving impulse to collect art.

 

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Robert Lehrman: Secrets of the Art World - Smithsonian American Art Museum

Collectors' Roundtable with Robert Lehrman This annual series provides insight and invaluable advice on collecting art from museum directors, curators, collectors, art dealers, and consultants. This evening, collector Robert Lehrman (Washington, DC) presents "Secrets of the Art World." Robert Lehrman, since 1979, has been collecting works by contemporary American and European artists, including William Christenberry, Damien Hirst, Agnes Martin, Gerhard Richter, and Andy Warhol. He also has one of the most comprehensive private collections of works by Joseph Cornell. Lehrman is founder and president of the not-for-profit Voyager Foundation and has lectured on contemporary art appreciation at museums, universities, and art schools across America. He believes that in addition to being personally rewarding, collecting art and supporting art organizations and their related activities is an important civic responsibility. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2003.

 

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Paul Mellon on Collecting Art: Part 1

How Paul Mellon began to collect art.

 

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Paul Mellon on Collecting Art: Part 2

Paul Mellon describes his early relationship with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

 

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Dr. David Holcombe 6 Principles of Collecting Art

David and Nicole Holcombe have been collecting art for over 25 years. David gave a gallery talk January 31, 2010 on the 6 principles that guide their collecting.