Journal

Exhibition of religious paintings by Geli Korzhev

An interesting exhibition of religious works by the late Geli Korzhev has opened at the Ananiev museum in Moscow.   Korzhev died earlier this year and most of the works were created during the last 10 years when Korzhev’s thoughts turned increasingly to his own mortality. A few works, such as the magnificent ‘Eve’ standing
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Journal

Exhibition of religious paintings by Geli Korzhev

An interesting exhibition of religious works by the late Geli Korzhev has opened at the Ananiev museum in Moscow.   Korzhev died earlier this year and most of the works were created during the last 10 years when Korzhev’s thoughts turned increasingly to his own mortality. A few works, such as the magnificent ‘Eve’ standing
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The contemporary art bubble?

High prices for art where the paint is still wet seem at the Art Basel Miami Fair seem to have triggered a slew of articles predicting the contempoarary art bubble is about to implode.  Other art world commentators such as Marion Maneker of the Art Monitor seem convinced that, like the stockmarket, the art market
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Articles

Why is Art by Women artists worth less? Spears WMS Magazine

Thursday, 11th October 2012 Let’s Talk About Sex For centuries our attitudes towards female artists, and the art they produce, has been prejudiced and biased. Is that at last starting to change, asks Ivan Lindsay? SINCE ANTIQUITY, WOMEN artists have been creating artworks alongside men, but their achievement has often been belittled and the value
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The Story behind the Royal Collection by Ivan Lindsay – Spears WMS Magazine Issue 26 May/June 2012

The Story Behind the Royal Collection One is Remarkably Eclectic Ivan Lindsay on the story behind the Royal Collection — not only the finest private accumulation of artworks, objets and curios in the world, but also a mirror of the diverse tastes and predilections of every British monarch since Charles I THE ROYAL COLLECTION has
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Essays

Reconceiving Connoisseurship by Carol Strone, Fine Art Connoisseurship magazine, Spring 2010.

In order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work. One must feel beauty and be moved by it. It is not even enough to feel, to be moved in a vague way: It is essential to discern the different shades of feeling. Nothing
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Picture cataloguing by Christopher Wright.

Picture Cataloguing Until about 40 years ago cataloguing consisted of the compilation of information about a work of art (as opposed to the catalogue raisonne which involved bringing together all the known information about an individual artist). The process of cataloguing was never deemed to require a specific skill other than the (now rare) ability
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