We are trusted art consultants who have built a reputation on listening to our clients, understanding their goals, enhancing their aesthetics and minding their budget considerations. When partnering with public, private and corporate collectors, we recognize that owning art is a reflection of their personas.
Lea Weingarten began the Weingarten Art Group in 2006, after more than fifteen years’ experience of working with public and private art collections in achieving their collecting goals. Ms. Weingarten co-founded the Menil Collection’s popular Contemporaries collecting group at the personal request of Mme. Dominique de Menil.
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WAG Your Wall
Where we started: Our client, a couple referred to us by a high-profile design professional, had recently begun augmenting their personal collection with well-recognized museum acquisitions. They are drawn to artists with a high-color, high-impact style and designed their new-built home in the Memorial area to provide a neutral contrast on which to display their…
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WAG Project
Over a three-week period in January 2018, internationally-acclaimed artist Patrick Dougherty created one of his majestic Stickwork sculptures in Austin’s Pease Park Conservancy, titled Yippee Ki Yay, utilizing locally-harvested materials including depression willow, ash and ligustrum. The installation will remain on display in Pease Park’s Custer’s Meadow (2201 Parkway) for several years, sparking the imagination…
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WAG on the Road
Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC) is a small jewel of an art fair that takes place at the old Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. While only 69 galleries were represented, all but one or two had meritorious work and the fair, overall, was fresh and full of talent. The vast majority of the artists shown…
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WAG In The News
Weingarten Art Group principal Lea Weingarten is serving as the Consulting Director of the Public Art of the University of Houston System program. In that role, WAG’s primary responsibility is to usher the Collection forward strategically through publication of a monograph (the Collection’s first), creating engaging events and programming, and a temporary public art program designed to…
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