USEFUL INFORMATION:
Art is some real serious business! People who care, care deeply, truly and (often) madly. Whatever be your angle or inclination, the following Art, Design and Collector sites are valuable resources. They are all supremely authentic, educative to the hilt and of course, entertaining, all in their niche areas.
Art Collection:
American Art Collector (magazine): Well known and most respected source for Traditional / Representational Art and Artists plus who’s-who of Galleries in that broad-appeal market. Their sister magazine: International Artist Magazine is also a sought-after publication (as the name suggests, with a wider scope). Both magazines are staple diet of gallerists and art dealers.
Art in America (magazine): Exactly same as above but with an avant-garde, distinctly cutting-edge eye for modern and contemporary art and artists.
Art News (website): A one-source compendia of all things “happening” in the art world. Art in America is the publication arm.
Artnet and Artsy (websites): Both are renowned, 100% guaranteed and vetted sites (auction and gallery sales, respectively) to acquire your artist, your artwork, with zero hassles.
Art Monthly (magazine): The Art in America version across the pond. This magazine has an international lens with their microscope firmly focused on British Art.
Larry’s List (website, etc.,): This is an art-business insider’s back-channel: who collects and why, who sells to who. The instagram is a “master-class” of the basic contrapuntals of modern Art beat.
Designers/Interior-Decor/Architecture:
Architectural Digest magazine: As well known as this is, all modern Design or Architectural (with the layman’s popular view) mention begins with this astounding and time-honored magazine.
Luxe Interiors + Design magazine: As the name suggests, their pages are dedicated to households that desire taste, panache and living as as a style. More in-your-face, more we don’t care, this is how we live.
Interior Design, Elle Decor and House Beautiful (all magazines) are also worthy choices for classy ideas and startling combination of design and art with the last one being the oldest of them all.
As far as local markets go, these two design magazines are definitely worth checking out: Florida Design and Detroit Design. Both have solid reputation, impeccable editorials and local / regional reach that can only be built by hard work over a very long time
Art Critics:
Since Plato’s Republic (and perhaps even older periods) serious, thoughtful and penetrative “words to the picture” or ideas of substance, meaning and beauty / truth have defined what “Art” may (or may not) be. In present times the following (all alive) cannot be bypassed. Their influence is substantial and they may have even made “art” better.
Jerry Saltz,
The New York magazine.
Roberta Smith, (Jerry’s wife!),
The New York Times Magazine.
Jonathan Jones & Adrian Searle,
The Guardian.
Eleanor Heartney,
Art in America.
Sebastian Smee,
The Washington Post.
Patricia Bickers,
Art Monthly.
