It’s a big world filled with countless things to collect. People collect airsickness bags and hotel soaps, toasters and snow globes, typewriters, skeleton keys, and paper labels from old fruit crates. There…
Dissect a Gail Potocki painting and you’ll discover it has been built twice. First comes the sanity: a drawing, typically worked out at full scale, line by line, until the composition carries…
Long before any painter made a non-objective mark on canvas, the Earth was making abstract art. Rivers braided silt into ribbons of ochre and slate. Wind and water combed black sand into…
Long before the compass guided a ship, it pointed to “home.” In the context of Feng Shui, the Chinese art of placing objects to harmonize with the environment, home meant the correct…
The world watched in horror and disbelief as Notre Dame burned. The flames left an imperishable desire to rebuild this iconic structure. This image of Notre Dame was…
This blog presents a quick guide to interpreting and understanding Buddhist implements and symbols.
This blog describes the art of Tutsi basketry, which has now become a recognized collectible in the African art world, and the “basket world,” in particular.
This blog describes the restoration, repurposing, and rebuilding of an exterior stone facade salvaged from an earthquake as a complete interior environment called The Meditation Room
In China, the pure beauty of nature has been treasured for centuries, and this is most evident in a collecting category called Gongshi. The art of Gongshi is…
This blog examines the deity Quan Yin, technically the Buddhist god of compassion and mercy, who has now become a popular icon capturing the imagination of Buddhists and…
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