This January, ITV will show Great Art, a five-part series exploring the life and work of the world’s most celebrated artists.
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Daniel’s Value and Ideas #28: Everything in Its Right Place
The idea that commercial galleries do not sell to just anyone, but select their clients very carefully, sounds like outright elitism. It sounds as if they deliberately seek out the rich and powerful….
Continue Reading...Review: Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure at The National Gallery
The Dutch Golden Age of painting in the 17th century was marked by an explosion of different genres of painting from tempestuous seascapes to intimate still lifes, as they moved away from the religious works that had preceded them in the Baroque era.
Continue Reading...New York Art Fairs Day 1 by Ben Austin
Day one: So, I arrived yesterday afternoon in New York at around 3pm, but didn’t actually get into the City until about 7pm due the hour and half queue at Customs (after finger prints, biometric eye readings and a sworn statement that I have never been a member of the Communist Party nor a recognised […]
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