WAG Your Wall
A Weingarten Art Group (WAG) collaborator says often that she’d rather “put up bare walls than bad art.” While the latter part of that statement, “bad art,” is surely subjective, what isn’t up to interpretation is the process of matching a work of art with a collector. When the motivations and values of a client align…
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Art collecting 101
Weingarten Art Group principal Lea Weingarten will be the featured speaker at a Northwest University Club of Houston lunch-and-learn gathering on Friday, Sept. 4, at Bistro Menil. The event, titled “Introduction to Art Collecting 101: Luncheon at Bistro Menil,” is the first part of the club’s Art Collecting and Education speaker series. Additional events in the…
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On Our Radar
Who: Chicago-based artist Tony Lewis, who’s currently featured in a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, Ohio, through Sept. 6, 2015. Tony Lewis‘ work has been included in exhibitions at CAB, Brussels; Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; Massimo de Carlo, London; and in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. What he’s known for: Explorations of language structures and…
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Back to school
Salon Style invokes the tradition of 17th century Paris when the Royal Academy of Art shared the works of its students with other artists, patrons and the public. In order to fit as many works in as possible, paintings were hung from floor to ceiling in a marvelous array. The tradition continued when the exhibition…
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