How To Appreciate Modern Art

by | Sep 19, 2017 | ART

It has been said that the appreciation of modern art is akin to gazing into the interior of your garbage bin. Often, they are similarly strewn with the cultural packaging of our times. The general public, over millennia, have not immediately warmed to the novel, when...

A Day In The Life Of A Gallery Curator

by | Sep 19, 2017 | ART

They say that to become a gallery curator, you need to know an awful lot about a lot of useless things. That definition could be a mite unkind, but is not far from the unvarnished truth. Talking the talk, if not, quite, walking the walk, is the name of the game. Art...

Collections of the State: How Governments Manage Their Art

by | Sep 19, 2017 | ART

Welcome to the world of highbrow cultural acquisitions. This is the realm of museums, libraries and national art galleries. Art and items of cultural importance are acquired by gift, bequest or purchase, most generally. Famous artists may, upon their death, have...