Mary Ann Prior

Build an Art Collection

There is no blueprint for a typical collector, and amassing art in any form is a highly pleasurable activity involving looking, learning, and listening.

Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art

Porto's multidisciplinary Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art is one of the world's top museums. Designed by Pritzker-winning architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, it sits amid a 45-acre park with sculpture gardens and a pink art deco villa, the Casa de Serralves.

The Rise of Contemporary Art in the United Arab Emirates

Parts of the Middle East are having some serious moments in the limelight. On the sporting front, Qatar hosted the World Cup in November and December 2022, attracting visitors from all corners of the globe. These mega-events and aspirations spurred the United Arab Emirates to duke it out for new art fairs in the same year.

In Praise of Shadows

Segregation, violence, oppression, and inequality: these are the injustices of twentieth-century South Africa. It was against this turbulent background that William Kentridge grew up and went on to develop his powerful and haunting artistic practice.

Agam, Again

How and what exactly do we see? At ninety-four years old, Yaacov Agam is receiving renewed attention with the move of one of his most familiar works to Green Mountain Falls, Colorado.

To Be, or What to See, In Denmark

Basquiat x Warhol: Painting Four Hands

Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat painted four hands across a whirlwind two years in the mid-1980s. Their collaborative canvases now draw rave crowds to a blockbuster show at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

Roger Mandle (1941–2020)

LA PARISIENNE

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