Art Me Up: Learning to collect & critique with the SVA (15 years later)
Portrait 5 (Stephens) sold for $27K at the Phillips d Pury March 2011 Auction. All proceeds went to DonorsChoose.org. See what it was up against and my "review" below. Time for a throwback - 15 years ago I completed a 6-week SVA Contemporary Art Appreciation course. It kickstarted my collecting journey. Has anything changed? You be the judge... +++ I've just completed my 6-week SVA Trends in Photography and Contemporary Art : What's Happening Now mini-course. It's an indulgent immersion in the contemporary art world, toasting your eyeballs on everything from priceless modern art icons to the proverbial "my 6 year-old could do that." (Ah, but your 6-year old, my friend, is not named "Warhol"). We got to traipse through the galleries of Chelsea, the Upper East Side and the Lower East Side, plus attend a Phillips de Pury "mid-season" auction preview, and a couple of Armory Arts Week shows. And yes, some of us were bu...