Christie’s contemporary sale was decent for the art market we have been experiencing this past year but Sotheby’s, oh Sotheby’s… it was like stepping back in time to 2007. The room was filled with energy and Tobias kept the pace brisk as he shot above the estimate on the majority of lots. Wow, who knew in [...]

It is still a bit surreal that I now attend the sales that I used to dream about before I began working in the art world. They were so exclusive, elusive and glamorous–that is until I actually went to one and was relegated to watching on a tv screen from a separate room. The fact [...]

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A recently published study in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts reported that visitors to ancient art museums described their experience in cognitive terms versus visitors to modern art museums who seek pleasure and sensation from their visits. The study was conducted in Rome where guests to two museums were surveyed, one [...]

This is an interesting article from a recent Miami Herald. If you have the time, it is worth a quick read as the author makes some valid points:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/v-fullstory/story/1156977.html

Recently there was an article in the NYT about art viewing and how most people don’t take enough time to stop and really appreciate a work of art. Michael Kimmelman wrote that while at the Louvre, “almost nobody, over the course of that hour or two, paused before any object for as long as a [...]