When walking through an art fair, our team has a tendency to end up in the backroom or exhibitor's closet, where you can see additional works being offered by the gallery. This is often where smaller scale or special objects are installed and we delight in what each gallerist decides to bring and exhibited each year. 

Vessels & Stems was an exhibition curated by our team at Jameson & Thompson in Jamaica Plain, Boston that took place in December of 2022. The work featured works inspired by nature, created by a fascinating group of artists, including Jean Bardon, Gráinne Cuffe, Alisson Owen, Avery Schuster, Margaret Sheldon, Brett Day Windham, Vanessa Varjian, and Ashley Zipp. 

In April 2022, we had the pleasure of working alongside artist Rosamund Zander on her retrospective exhibition, Rosamund Zander: En Plein Air, at the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts. The show was a true masterpiece that embodied the artist's deep reverence and love for nature. With over 80 paintings on display, the exhibition transported viewers to the forests of New England, the cliffs of Costa Brava, and the groves of California, inviting them to discover the beauty in the undergrowth, outcroppings, gardens, and hillsides.

The global pandemic has affected everyone in countless ways. Adjustments we are making to our personal, lives will stay with us long after a vaccine has been distributed. The auction world is having to make similar shifts. The business, which has historically been based on splashy viewing parties, global tours and in-person sales, had to drastically rethink its model when Covid upended the Spring 2020 sales. Now that we’re seven months into the pandemic, the auction world has found its footing, thanks to continued demand and impressive cutting edge technology.

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Whether it’s extravagantly carved and accented with 23 karat yellow gold or simple natural maple, a picture frame's primary goal is to protect our art. Frames create an outer shell that safeguards valuable and nostalgic works from damaging environmental conditions. But what goes into choosing the right one? When to use glazing (what even is glazing?) and how to pick a style or color? I spoke with three local framers to learn what goes into custom framing, and why it matters. Thanks to experts Liz Levitt of A Street Frames, Alex Jacobson of Adjective Art & Framing and Richard Siegel of Stanhope Framers who contributed insights and technical details for this article.

I'm excited to share two projects I've been working on that will run through the summer.

The first is a speaker series I've organized with OpenScholar around the topic "Science is Beautiful". OpenScholar helps research institutions and their faculty produce professional, research-centric websites to share with the world. Dr. Gamaliel Herrera kicked off the series last week with a discussion about how he approaches collecting contemporary art through the lens of a radiologist. Tomorrow, please tune in to Lucy Kim, who will be speaking about her artist-in-residency at the Broad Institute. For the next six weeks we will be speaking with artists, curators, collectors, scientists, professors and doctors to learn more about the intersection of the arts and science.

UBS recently hosted a panel to discuss the art market in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. The goal of the conversation was to assess the impact and consider the possible evolution the future art market might undergo. 

As illustrated in the graph above, this is a deeper and more pervasive crisis than the 2009 subprime mortgage recession. One attribute of 2009's rebound was the globalization of the art market that had occurred in the decade leading up to 2009 with an influx of new galleries, artists, auction houses and collectors.

As we entered our second month amidst the devastation of the Coronavirus pandemic, we continued to look to art as a bright spot in our lives. After spending the first two weeks of social distancing cleaning out her studio, Brookline-based photographerRania Matar turned to her camera as a way of processing all that is happening around her. To document this unique moment in time and because she missed seeing people, she started a photo project called "Connections Across Barriers", shooting neighbors from behind their windows and doors.

I love the insider access many of these Podcasts provide. Guests open up and share with the hosts about their collections, productivity hacks and other fantastic advice from experts in their respective fields.