Art Me Up: Learning to collect & critique with the SVA
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. 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 art world - feasting your eyeballs on everything from priceless icons of the modern art world 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 see 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. Some of us were budding collectors. "The Confess Project": The gang check out artist Margot Lovejoy's confessions on the surreal "receivers" at Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, 29 Orchard St - &quo