Schedule for International Art Fairs Revealed
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 | Collector Savvy tips, Exhibition news, General | No Comments
Capture the August 2010 issue of Art in America magazine, open to page 35 and listed are international art fairs in chronological order beginning with the Gwangju Biennale held in Korea 2 September – 7 November 2010, ending with the Venice Biennale staged between June and November 2011. 14 fairs are listed, often naming the director/ curators as well as the fair’s theme.
This same issue also lists many of the major international museum exhibitions planned for the 2010 – 2011 season, as well as galleries by city & state in the US. The index allows you to find where your favorite artists’ works are being shown.
Not everything is on the internet . . .
just www.SavvyCollector.com although more people each year stop by our office/ gallery when in Phoenix, Arizona.
Corinne Cain of www.SavvyCollector.com
Want to Learn to Draw ? late in life ??
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 | General | No Comments
Should you reside in Phoenix, AZ, contact Kathy Taylor who holds very small classes for 8 weeks, two hours a session.
You bring drawing pencils, a drawing table, an eraser, a charcoal pencil and sticks.
Kathy’s goal is to help you shift from logical, analytical seeing to intuitive, nonverbal perceiving.
Tempted ??? Call her at 602 256-2512 or KathyTaylorArt@gmail.com
She is represented by a gallery in France, another in Utah and two in Arizona.
Don’t live here in Phoenix, visit your local art supply store to see if private classes are possible and then take a chance !!!
At the least art classes will make you a more astute collector. At the most you will beckon a side of you heretofore unexplored !!!!!!!
Corinne Cain of SavvyCollector.com
Santa Fe Indian Market 2010
Friday, August 27th, 2010 | Collector Savvy tips, Exhibition news | No Comments
Fully braced for a tortuous crush of humanity on the first day of Santa Fe Indian Market, August 2010 presented a lighter turnout than in previous years.
That said, the attendees were extremely intent on capturing art, pottery, jewelry, textiles and more from their favorite artists. By 10 am a few artists had sold out. A total of 1100 exhibitors were assembled.
It was an honor to meet the venerable Hopi jeweler, Lawrence Saufkie. He readily identified a fabulous overlay bracelet that he had made in the early 1950’s, as well as a silver overlay pendant that were part of the newly debuting Williams Collection. Let us know if you are interested in obtaining significant vintage American Indian jewlery assembled by Williams family members as early as the 1930’s until the 1990’s.
Roxanne Swentzell’s loveable face welcomed all who came to her booth. Her sculpture sold at a very swift pace, a testimony to her enormous talent.
The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts offered a positively enchanting sculpture by Rose Simpson, Roxanne’s up and coming daughter. You enter a small room, glancing over your shoulder at what looks like an overgrown terra cotta shape on the floor. After continuing to gain distance from this sculpture, you finally recognize a commanding human figure laying on its side. Other artists were exposed in this intimate smallish museum, all extremely individualistic and talented. Their works would rival those exhibiting in any contemporary art institution in the country.
Mark Winter’s glib and informative talk at the library beside the Wheelwright Museum on Museum Hill was memorable. You can’t help but be grateful that he has persevered to assemble important information about Two Grey Hills weavers of the 20th & 21st century. Reputedly Two Grey Hills weavings from Toadlena Trading Post were hurriedly purchased after Mark’s lecture.
Antonio Pineda’s exhibit at the Museum of International Folk Art was properly titled Silver Seduction. Vintage Mexican jewelry is hot, hot, hot! It was a privilege to meet Marc Navarro, a gentleman who has heralded this elegant material for roughly 40 years.
What did the art appraiser capture for her own edification? Tomorrow’s blog will reveal . . .
Corinne Cain www.SavvyCollector
Leroy Keams’ paintings debut at Dave’s Electric Brew Pub in Tempe !!!
Monday, August 16th, 2010 | Exhibition news | No Comments
502 S. College Avenue, Suite 103, Tempe 85281
Dave’s Electric Brew Pub
They serve hand-crafted beer, as well as SavvyCollector.com art by Leroy Keams!
August 15-September 10
Preston Singletary Mid-Career Survey Exhibition
Friday, July 30th, 2010 | General | No Comments
Complete with a catalogue and a DVD documentary, “Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire and Shadows“is on view at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington through 19 September.
Extra venues include
- Heard Museum in Phoenix 15 Oct 2010 to 6 Feb 2011
- National Museum of the American Indian in New York City 19 March 2011 to 21 August 2011
Am anxious to experience Preston’s “Clan House”, which is a 16′ by 10′ cast glass triptych presenting references to Tlingit architecture and art.
The above information was taken from Native Peoples magazine
Corinne Cain of www.SavvyCollector.com
2 Brooklyn Museum Shows This Summer
Friday, July 23rd, 2010 | General | No Comments
June 18 – Sept 12 Andy Warhol The Last Decade Brooklyn Museum is the 1st US museum to examine the last 10 years of Warhol’s output represented by nearly 50 works. During this segment of his art production, Warhol became re-acquainted with hand painting. His collaborative efforts with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francsco Clemente and Keither Haring helped to trigger traditional painting.
Warhol also investigated abstraction. The exhibition concludes with Warhol’s Warhol’s variations on da Vinci’s The Last Supper. 
Kiki Smith presents a unique, site-specific installation on the 4th Floor of the Brooklyn Museum. Her focus is the cycle of life and issues of creative inspiration in relation to women artists. This is a feminist exploration, somewhat like a “self-examining chic flick” in an art exhibition format.
Watch the installation in process, thanks to Youtube !!
Sojourn Exhibition stretches between February 12 – September 12, 2010
Click on the link below to experience the artist in the act of creating this installation. It is one
thing to applaud the statement, another to witness the formation of the visual statement.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brooklyn_museum/sets/72157623170094773/
Corinne Cain of SavvyCollector.com
Sampling different art genres is a recipe for growth as an art appreciator . . .
Also the beautiful gardens behind the Brooklyn Museum will help you gather inner peace and outward beauty, any day !!!
Museums Can Sell Your Donated Items !!!
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 | Collector Savvy tips | No Comments
Check your agreement with any museum to which you are donating art, antiques, any item.
It is becoming more common for museums to stipulate that they may choose at some point to deaccession (typically sell) your gifted item.
In fact the Association of Art Museum Directors on June 9, 2010 agreed to include the following clause as part of their disposal or deaccession policy:
The work is being sold as part of the museum’s effort to refine and improve its collections, in keeping with the collecting goals reviewed and approved by the museum’s Board of Trustees or governing body.
This stipulation makes it permissible for a museum to sell your item, “to refine and improve its collections”.
As some givers intend to share their item with those visiting their favorite institution, they should be aware of this possibility, especially when this option is named in the agreement they sign.
Savvy Collectors read BEFORE signing agreements.
Corinne Cain of www.SavvyCollector.com
Tamarind Institute debuts online Catalogue Raisonne !!!
Sunday, July 4th, 2010 | Collector Savvy tips | 1 Comment
Lithographs produced by the Tamarind Institute between 1970 and 2002 are currently viewable online !!! What a boon to anyone recognizing Tamarind’s blind-embossed chop mark in the margin of an original lithograph. From the online catalogue raisonne, you can retrieve the print’s proper title, what year it was printed as well as the name of the master printer.
Tamarind’s chop is bell shaped with a vertical line running down its center (see below)
Tamarind has published a book listing prints created between the years 1960-1970, which unfortunately it OP (out of print). They do have available a soft bound book chronicling those produced between 1970 and 1979 for $15. Most of the illustrations can be found online.
http://tamarind.unm.edu/ is the website’s address.
You can search by artist, title, year or Tamarind number. The Tamarind number citing the year the print was produced first is reliably written in graphite on the back of each print they produced.
You can also purchase any one of 33 different Fritz Scholder lithographs Tamarind produced, if you investigate their online gallery. Tamarind lists well over 100 different artists whose work they hold in their inventory for sale.
Times like this, I want to kiss the internet for expediting art research!
Corinne Cain of SavvyCollector.com
Happy 4th of July !!! This year marks the 50th anniversary of Tamarind initial print production.
Custom Southwest Cultural Tours in Arizona!!!
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 | Collector Savvy tips, General | No Comments
via 2 perspectives –a Western entertainer, author, educator and photographer, Gary Johnson with 20 years of experience guiding tours to visitors from around the world and Debbie Drye, a prize-winning kachina carver and artist whose heritage is both Hopi and Kaibab Paiute.
Existing tours focus on Hopi pueblos, the Navajo reservation, the Grand Canyon & the Kaibab Paiute people, Apache territory, ghost towns in Arizona. Other destinations are limited only by your imagination !!!
You can specify the duration. Ghost towns can be covered in as little as one day. The remaining destinations involve 2-7 days, your choice.
www.AmericanSouthwestCulturalTours.com 602-882-6028
View some of Gary’s photos (yes, his work appears in Arizona Highways & in Native Peoples magazines) taken on each of the tours on their website. or catch Southwest Cultural Tours’ YouTube video
More about Debbie, her day job is at the Heard Museum where her sardonic wit is kept in check ! Remember the best artists know other artists of their caliber. Debbie is extremely well connected, meaning she is able to access major talents at each of the pueblos visited.
Corinne Cain of www.SavvyCollector.com