New York Magazine is currently featuring the city of Miami in its Travel section, highlighting the city’s growing arts scene, as well as some of its most notable museums. The magazine makes express mention of Emerson Dorsch, The Marguiles Collection, and The Wolfsonian-FIU, among others. The magazine also offers advice on shopping and transportation in the vibrant urban hub. (more…)
Artist Peter Beard’s wife, Nejma Beard, spoke with New York Magazine in its new issue, detailing her efforts to help reclaim his reputation in the art market. Beard, who was a close friend of Andy Warhol, has seen a resurgence in popularity in the last several years, and his wife’s efforts have helped to set new auction records for his work on the open market. “Now that art is almost entirely a commodity,” Peter Beard writes, “I’m glad to be, shall we say, commodious.”
The New York Magazine examines Yayoi Kusama‘s position in the art world after a 40 year stint in a mental hospital. The Japanese artist voices her opinions on her mental illness, her youth, and her old contemporaries, including Andy Warhol, stating that “he lived near me and appropriated my ideas, only he was too late because I have already realized them. We don’t hear his name now so much in Japan.”
