Leonard Baskin’s “Wunderkammer”
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the narratives that once structured the art world have been breaking down. Traditional hierarchies—between “high” and “low” culture, Western and n... Read More
The Beethoven Frieze: A Plea for Compromise
Today the Beethoven Frieze is housed in the Vienna Secession, where it is a major tourist attraction and source of income. If sold on the open market, the Frieze could fetch over $150 million.... Read More
Marie-Louise Motesiczky: The Mother Paintings
(October 7 – December 24th, 2014)
Noted art historian Ernst Gombrich compared Marie-Louise Motesiczky’s paintings of her mother, Henriette, to the work of Albrecht Dürer. The Nobel Laureate Elias Canetti considered these portraits ...
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ADAA Gallery Chat: Jane Kallir on Galerie St. Etienne’s 75th Anniversary, Its Roots in German Expressionism, and Its Longtime Commitment to Outsider Art
On the occasion of St. Etienne’s 75th anniversary, Galerie St. Etienne Co-Director Jane Kallir sat down with ADAA to talk about the gallery’s legacy and its role in the art world... Read More
Galerie St. Etienne Featured on 1stdibs
Read the full article on 1stdibs.com, here. ... Read More
2014 Art Market Report
The Investment Game
The art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto, who died last year, was instrumental in describing and reifying the concept of the “art world”: an amalgamation of collectors, dealers, artists, cur...
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When Art Is Just an Asset, Everyone Ends Up Poorer
The Detroit Disaster Continues
Back in January, everyone breathed a sigh of relief at the news that a consortium of foundations had pledged $330 million to prevent the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts from being sold off...
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The Forgery “Epidemic”
Does It Matter Who Really Made That Picture?
The well-publicized forgery scandal involving the now-defunct Knoedler Gallery, coupled with the astronomical rise in some art prices, has created the unfortunate impression that art has no intrinsic ...
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Käthe Kollwitz: The Complete Print Cycles
(October 8 – December 28, 2013)
Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) created 99 etchings, 133 lithographs, 42 woodcuts, 19 extant sculptures and roughly 1,450 drawings in a career that spanned over half a century, but she is best known for h...
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