Hugh Grant: Lessons In Buying Art
In the January 2010 issue of Elle magazine, there’s an interview of Hugh Grant by Holly Millea. Whatever you think of Grant, there’s an interesting bit on the actor as an art collector. Elle: Tell me,...
View ArticleA Word On Buying Antique Paintings At Auctions
I hate putting a value on art. I think you should pay what the artist asks, so long as the depth of your affection for the piece matches the depth of your pockets. But, because I mostly write about...
View ArticleHandmade Craft Shopping Parties
Back in the day, I offered and held a few home parties for selling my artworks. Being about 15 years ago, ish, I felt like I was charting new territories. I had a bunch of catalogs and brochures from...
View ArticleThere Is Only Art!
In Memo to budding art collectors, art collector Paulino Que gives three tips for beginner art collectors — but the best part of the article or interview is this part: [I]n the course of merely...
View ArticlePlucking A Picasso From A Thrift Shop
Another thrift store find; this time a signed Picasso. Purchased for $14, the man sold the Picasso print designed to advertise a 1958 Easter exhibition of his ceramic work in Vallauris, France, for...
View ArticleWho The *$&% Is An Art Expert?
I’ve had one art DVD on my wishlist for years now, but I hadn’t given it much priority until today. Who the *$&% Is Jackson Pollock? is the 2006 documentary about 73-year-old former long-haul truck...
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