Contemporary Art and Abstract Artist

Do Tariffs Change Where You Should Buy an Original Painting?

A tariff changes what a painting costs to cross a border. It does not change what the painting is. Since 22 August, the United States has charged 50% on paintings imported from Canada, according to...

Are Most People Hanging Art Too Small?

Most walls want a bigger painting than their owners first choose. Stylist Megan Daisy Milner puts the floor for a sofa wall at 48 inches wide, even under eight-foot ceilings, and designers warn tha...

Is a Hand-Made Painting Still a Rest From the Screen?

Last updated: 5 November 2026 In short: Curators say yes, in their own terms. A Tate Modern curator hopes museums stay places for slowing down, rest and recuperation, and the curator of the Obama P...

How Do You Judge a Painter the Market Is Only Now Discovering?

Last updated: 5 November 2026 In short: Judge the painting, not the name beside it. At the inaugural ADAA Fair in New York, Berry Campbell is showing women artists who have recently received overdu...

What Does a Frankenthaler, a Mitchell and a de Kooning in One Sale Tell a Buyer?

Last updated: 4 November 2026 In short: Mostly that painting made by hand still holds the market's attention. Sotheby's New York lists a Frankenthaler, a Joan Mitchell and three de Kooning lots in ...

Do You Have to Inherit a Painting to Start Collecting?

Last updated: 4 November 2026 In short: No. Family is the most common way into collecting, according to the Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting 2026: 28% of collectors began there, and 40...

Is One Strong Original Replacing the Gallery Wall in Hospitality?

Last updated: 3 November 2026 In short: Possibly, though a category is not a client survey. Hospitality Design's 22nd HD Awards, published 6 May 2026, include "Art: Individual Piece," won by a susp...

Do You Need to Know Enough to Call Yourself a Collector?

Last updated: 3 November 2026 In short: No. Sarah Harrelson, founder of CULTURED, spent sixteen months inside private collections and writes that collecting is not about expertise or certainty, but...

Can an Art Consultant Choose the Right Painting Without Standing in the Room?

Last updated: 2 November 2026 In short: Yes, up to a point. An art consultancy can curate a room it never visits from design boards, a budget, renderings and floor plans, then narrow to the top two...

Roll Call IX: Seven Collectors on Who Opens the Door

Last updated: 2 November 2026 In short: A first painting rarely begins with a purchase. It begins with a person who opens the door: a friend, a mentor, a room of artists on an open-studio night. Se...