Israeli artist Yosef “Jojo” Ohayon opens his second Jojo Gallery in the heart of Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood Israeli artist Yosef “Jojo” Ohayon expanded his global footprint by opening his first gallery in the United States at 456 W. Broadway in the SoHo neighborhood in southern Manhattan in summer 2017. This location is Jojo’s second gallery. The original Jojo Gallery has been…
EXPO CHICAGO Sept. 13–17, 2017 Navy Pier, Chicago expochicago.com EXPO CHICAGO, an international exposition of contemporary and modern art, has established the city of Chicago as a preeminent art fair destination. Opening the international fall art season each September, EXPO CHICAGO takes place at historic Navy Pier, whose vast vaulted architecture hosts leading international exhibitors presented alongside one of the…
From the British Museum Collection, London If you are going to Santa Fe this summer, by all means, make sure you add the New Mexico Museum of Art to your itinerary. With an amazing list of exhibitions and events during their centennial year celebration, the museum won’t disappoint. The most exclusive exhibition is the first international venue for Lines of Thought:…
Legendary octogenarian Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s immersive, mind-blowing, magical installation exhibition “Infinity Mirrors” is traveling throughout North America over the next two years. Starting in Washington, D.C., where it was the most-visited exhibition in Hirshhorn Museum history, “Infinity Mirrors” is now at the Seattle Art Museum until Sept. 10. “Infinity Mirrors” will then move to Los Angeles, Toronto, Cleveland, and…
Kris Gebhardt, a mixed-media impressionist painter, is adrenalized because he and his wife, Angela—who is an abstract artist in her own right, as well as Kris’s business partner—are front-row spectators as the stale, over-sanctioned industry of last century collides with the vibrating new way to buy and sell art. Like today’s authors who write and sell books without publishers, or…
Whether your art collecting is serious or recreational, maintaining adequate records for the artwork is equally essential as getting sufficient insurance coverage and performing proper maintenance. Adequate records present a potential buyer with something beyond the visual appeal of the piece. Records may provide a background story that the buyer connects to, a detail about the artist that the buyer…
Shantell Martin is a London-born, New York-based visual artist who has collaborated with notable creatives like Kendrick Lamar and global brands like Max Mara. Martin is known for her larger-than-life wall pieces, canvas work, and installations, consisting mostly of playful black-and-white illustrations filled with whimsical characters and messages. When we interviewed Martin, she disclosed details on her background, inspirations, current…
Any artist worth his or her salt is part of a larger arts community. Other artists are not your competition; other artists are your colleagues—and, I think you’ll find, your best friends. I once lived in a town with lots of artists but no community. Everyone worked in their own frustrated little bubble. I tried to begin a monthly get-together,…
The 57th Venice Biennale is underway! We were lucky enough to be there for the opening weekend, and thoroughly enjoyed spending time strolling through the city and checking out the shows. If you’ve been to Venice before, you will already have an idea of what you want to see, and if you haven’t yet been, it will be all new—lucky…
I just can’t believe it’s been a month since Artexpo New York! Time is just cruising right along and we haven’t slowed down a bit since getting back from New York. But, I’ve been dying to share with you all that I discovered while my incredible team and I were there. First of all, there is nothing like being in…