Art Basel Miami, Dec. 6 - 10, the five-day mega festival for lovers of contemporary art, promises to spin heads with its myriad of offerings, from its hub of 200 well-established contemporary art galleries at the Convention Center to cutting-edge, up-and-coming ones presenting in smaller art, design and photography fairs around the Design District, including […]

Niels van Eijk, (for Droog Design)
Cow Chair, 1997
Cow skin and wood
45 x 38 x 72
Barry Friedman Ltd., NY
at SOFA NEW YORK 2005

Barry Friedman, Ltd., New York and Europe’s Droog Design will jointly exhibit at Design Miami 2006, Dec. 7 -10, presenting Smart Deco: A Collaboration between Droog Design and Barry Friedman Ltd. Barry Friedman, an […]

Courtesy of Photo MIAMI.

Expressions of Culture, Inc. (EOC), producer of SOFA CHICAGO and SOFA NEW YORK brings its top notch production skills to two art fairs going on concurrently with Art Basel Miami. Mark Lyman, Founder/Director of EOC, said, “Our operations team is providing production services for Photo MIAMI and New Art Dealers Alliance […]

Richard Notkin
All Nations Have Their Moments of Foolishness (and DETAIL), 2006
Earthenware tiles fired in sawdust filled saggers, watercolor highlights, wood backing
46 x 62.5 x 4.5

Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA reported the sale of perhaps the stand-out artwork at SOFA CHICAGO 2006–All Nations Have Their Moments of Foolishness by Richard Notkin, who calls himself, “a sculptor […]

Barbara Kohl-Spiro
Splendor, 2006
Mixed media
42 x 34
Portals, Ltd.

A surprise hit at SOFA CHICAGO was the near sell-out focus show at Portals, Ltd., Chicago of ten large-scale mixed-media artworks by Barbara Kohl-Spiro, in her SOFA debut. Kohl-Spiro, who is also an art collector and Jewish philanthropist, said:
Make the soul sing–this is my mission. Kafka said art should […]

Janusz Walentynowicz
Seated I, 2006
Cast and painted glass
20 x 28
Marx-Saunders Gallery

Marx-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, enjoyed a “very good show” at SOFA CHICAGO, including the sale of Janusz Walentynowicz’s Seated 1, a cast glass and painted glass wall relief, for the asking price of $18,000. Walentynowicz was born in Poland and immigrated as a boy with […]

William Hunter
Infinity Echo, 2006
Cocobolo
10 x 21 x 16
Photo: Alan Shaffer

Transforming Vision: The Wood Sculpture of William Hunter, 1970 - 2005 features three decades of contemporary wood sculpture by William Hunter, the 2006 recipient of the annual Collectors of Wood Art’s Lifetime Achievement Award. This stunning monograph with full color plates is signed by William Hunter […]