I was very pleased to visit this year’s BP Awards at the National Portrait Gallery, and I was very excited to think they got it right in choosing the 2019 first prize winner–Imara in Her Winter Coat by artist Charlie Schaffer. I was so much attracted to and felt such a connection with admiration to the artist’s work that I contacted Schaffer to purchase a piece, wanting to be part of this moment to endorse greatness in our times. Currently on exhibit at my gallery for the Holiday 2019/Winter 2020 season will be an “unfinished” self portrait by Schaffer, painted during the same time as his painting of Imara.
Along with Francis Picabia and Pablo Picasso, Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) is one of a generation of artists who continued to champion figurative painting after the Second World War, even as abstraction was emerging as the dominant stream in art. It is also thanks to them that, in our time, abstract and realist painting can be practiced freely side by side rather than confronting each other across an ideological no-man’s land. Today, contemporary artists, audiences and experts alike admire Kokoschka’s gestural painting style, praise his open minded cosmopolitanism, or share the pacifism that runs like a thead through his work, life and legacy.
I was very interested when I read about this Edouard Vuillard show at the Barber Institute in one of my favorite magazines, World of Interiors. The show, Maman, focused on the subject of the artist’s mother, who appeared in over 500 of his works. I was so pleased to…
All Too Human celebrates the painters in Britain who strove to represent human figures, their relationships, and surroundings in the most intimate of ways.
I’ve been wanting to go back to the Louvre to spend some time inside and think about it as a beautifully designed building to house art. I do admit, whenever I am in Paris, just sitting in the square that surrounds the pyramid is almost enough to love the Louvre, to feel all it symbolizes as a great museum.
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Paris in Springtime to bicycle and find two museum exhibits – I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.
I had never considered myself a fan of Matisse, but on a flight home from Palm Springs in January, I watched a BBC documentary on Matisse’s Cut-Outs show at Tate Britain and became fascinated.
When in London, there is always time for a visit to the National Portrait Gallery. There, I was pleased to discover an exhibit dedicated to photography portraits of the English actress Vivien Leigh.
In 2014, I participated in a designer show house, Blairsden Mansion, as part of Mansions in May. Architects Carrere and Hastings designed the estate, as well as the New York Public Library, the original New York Stock Exchange, and the buildings that currently house The Frick Collection and Neue Galerie, two well-known Manhattan museums. As part of my own design process for the Blairsden show house, I visited the two museum spaces to help inform my work.
I can’t recommend enough experiencing museum visits and artist audio tours when traveling. Such travels are really my best source of study and inspire me and my role in the arts. Thank heavens for my partner Barnet Cohn and his part-time retirement job with