How international art gallery Ben Brown Fine Arts is coping with the pandemic Share
Having opened its first outpost in the heart of London’s Mayfair in 2004, Ben Brown Fine Arts went on to establish itself as a celebrated art centre in no time by holding exhibition after exhibition that were the talk of the town and the art world. Five years later, it branched out to Asia by opening a store in Hong Kong.
Famed for displaying contemporary and 20th-century art by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Lucio Fontana and Alighiero Boetti, Ben Brown recently took on a new challenge when he opened a space in Palm Beach, Florida, though this busy man nonetheless found time to share with Prestige readers his thoughts on the current state of the art world.
Reflection and Revolution
“Nature is a constant,” says Curator Alexander Moore, Creative Producer at London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery. “There’s a reason that artists through the centuries have always returned to it.” He is speaking about the gallery’s new exhibition,
Unearthed, which charts the story of photography â from the 1840s to today â through a variety of approaches to botanical still life. Amongst the collection is a contemporary installation from renowned video artist Ori Gersht (b. 1967), who is perhaps best known for his slow-motion images of exploding fruit and flowers â many of which reference classical paintings. Titled
On Reflection, this piece reimagines a floral still life by Jan Brueghel the elder (1568-1625), and has never before been on show in the UK. The artist speaks to
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Tribute to Vision & Justice Project and Founder Sarah Elizabeth Lewis
Frieze New York galleries and institutions respond to: ‘How are the arts responsible for disrupting, complicating, or shifting narratives of visual representation in the public realm?’
A central strand of Frieze New York 2021 programming is the Tribute to the
Vision & Justice Project and its founder, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis (Associate Professor at Harvard University). The Tribute will honour the exemplary work of the Vision & Justice Project, through an unprecedented engagement with the community of galleries participating at Frieze New York at The Shed and Frieze Viewing Room.
The Vision & Justice Project is rooted in education and is dedicated to examining art’s central role in understanding the relationship between race and citizenship in the United States. The intention of the Tribute is to explore this examination and expand the reach of the Vision & Justice Project, in o
Courtesy Valentina Tintori.
They say that if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life and art advisor and curator Valentina Tintori is very lucky in that sense. With a passion for the arts that began in high school, the Venezuela native now has 25 years of independent art advisory experience and her own Miami-based firm.
Valentina has advised in the creation of concept-driven collections for private collections, galleries, non-profit foundations, and financial institutions, always considering the aesthetic and monetary value of a piece. And as an avid emerging collector in her own right, Valentina’s passion for identifying high-potential mid-career artists extends beyond her career.