Art Collectors
I was born and raised in Dallas. My mother was a very entrepreneurial person who pursued the home-building industry. In the 1950s, a wife in Texas had to have her husband sign all legal documents for…
In the late 1970s, Herbert Zapp, an executive board member of Deutsche Bank, then headquartered in Düsseldorf, West Germany, fell in with the maverick artist and teacher Josef Beuys. Beuys was in the…
I’d always been interested in Northern European painting, the earliest practitioners like Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden and all the supernumeraries that circulated around the Eyckian solar…
One year after the Palisades Fire tore through Los Angeles, Frieze closed its seventh annual fair in the City of Angels with genuine optimism. More than 32,000 visitors from over 45 countries…
I was working in music and playing poker, and the combination of those things led me to the art world. I’m from a highly educated yet not affluent background, and I had never thought much about the…
When I went to first grade, as an only child, my mother, Arlene Schnitzer, enrolled in the Portland Art School. Her teachers complained to her that there was no contemporary art gallery there. This…
Gallerist Sonya Sparks is focused. As a native of San Diego with an avid interest in both art and business, this young entrepreneur was aware that there were few options for the many artists who live…
The distinct accent acquired during an untraditional childhood raised on a hippie commune in the Australian outback can still be heard in the voice of gallerist Om Bleicher, who now divides his…
Kenny Schachter is a polymath of sorts with a multitude of interests and skills that have guided him in the arts. As a collector, curator, artist, lecturer, and writer, he has used information…
Miami, Florida— once only thought of as a source of sun, sand, and sea offering winter refuge from cultural centers in the northern cities of New York, Boston, or Chicago— has become one of the…
Established in 1966 and housed in the historic Button Mansion on State Street at Prospect Avenue, The David Barnett Gallery is one of Wisconsin’s oldest and largest purveyors of fine art. This…
John Mazlish is a native New Yorker whose Brooklyn homebase is a trendsetting center in today’s culture-driven marketplace. Not formally trained in the visual arts, Mazlish came to appreciate art and…
Location, as any real estate agent will tell you, plays an essential role in the potential success or failure of a business maintaining a brick and mortar operation in conjunction with an online…
There typically would be great anticipation leading up to Christie’s 20th and 21st Century Evening Sales, as works by Basquiat, Keith Haring, Monet, Ed Rusche, Van Gogh,
