Learn how families can equitably dividing assets with both emotional and monetary values. Read our tips for dividing art & collectibles published in The Journal of Estate & Tax Planning published by the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils.
In an interview for Northern Trust, Wealth Advisor Stacy Singer describes the nuanced and often challenging path to estate resolution when valuable, one-of-a-kind objects are passed down to heirs. She offers her four strategies for navigating wealth transfer involving valuable fine art and collectible objects, which align directly with our holistic approach to collection management. In this post, we drill down the four key elements of this wealth planning strategy for art.
Join host Dave Shuffett, the KET crew and our expert appraisers at the next Kentucky Collectibles Appraisal Fair at the Paducah Convention & Expo Center on Friday, June 23rd and Saturday, June 24th. Fine art appraiser Morgan Rigaud and decorative art appraiser Diane Wachs will be appearing from Bryson to value family heirlooms, flea market finds, original paintings, mystery objects, and whatever walks in the door - all to raise money for Kentucky Educational Television.
This comprehensive exhibition features highlights from the Speed’s American Indian collection, along with paintings, drawings and photographs by Louisville artist and ethnographer Frederick Weygold. Although Weygold’s work as an illustrator, photographer and collector of Native American art is highly regarded in Europe, he remains virtually unknown in the U.S. This exhibition offers for the first time a thorough account of this remarkable man and his achievements.
The Speed Art Museum has received a major gift of 35 contemporary artworks from the Los Angeles-based scholar, advocate, and collector Gordon W. Bailey. All 21 artists, most African-American artists from the southern United States, featured in this gift are making their debuts in the Speed Art Museum’s permanent collection. A selection of these works will be on view in the exhibition A New World in My View: Gifts from Gordon W. Bailey in the Speed’s contemporary galleries on the second floor of the North building.
Cincinnati-based artist Cedric Michael Cox’s bright, lively, and often playful paintings offer abstract twists on traditional painting subjects. For this exhibition, Cox will present a new series of paintings inspired by works in the Taft collection. Working under a broad range of influences, including mythology, music, film, architecture, nature, and the urban environment, Cox encourages viewers to re-examine the world around them. His abstractions range from the geometric to the curvilinear, and look back to the fragmented forms of Cubism, the biomorphic shapes of Surrealism, and even the atmospheric colors of Tonalism.
Owning unique, hard-to-value items and not insuring them is like passing up the curtain at a game show. You know something of value may be behind it, but you choose to take your chances on another shiny object. There’s always tomorrow for curtain number two.
Following the success of last year’s orchid exhibition in the Madeline F. Elder Greenhouse, the IMA will once again showcase hundreds of stunning orchids from around the world, providing the perfect tropical escape from the winter chill. New this year, the exhibition will extend through the Lilly House, using orchids as decor. An accompanying Pop-Up Shop will be installed inside the main Museum building with orchids for sale.
Dogs: Faithful and True explores the enduring presence and contributions of dogs as companions, workers and heroes in Native American and Western cultures. In addition to art, photographs, artifacts and interactive experiences, there will be dog-related programming at various points during the exhibit. You'll be able to adopt a dog from the Indy Humane's Pet Adoption Wagon, participate in fun art workshops, hear a talk from the Purdue College of Veterinary Medicine on the history of dogs in art and dog breeds, learn about related community groups and much, much more. Dogs: Faithful and True promises to be a heart-warming and insightful look at our canine friends.
Structure Unbound: Interdisciplinary Book Art features works that push the boundaries between traditional book making and new media. The exhibition includes twenty-four artists from around the country. Visitors will see a wide range of materials and concepts, including paper wall installations, traditional accordion-style books, and cut paper structures that include LEDs and electronic components.
An accurate appraisal begins with reliable source information. In the case of a smArt Appraisal, that information includes the photographs you submit.
Yes, words count for a lot, but images are often the most important descriptors you can provide for us to determine an object’s age and origin, culture and history.
A good photo will help us identify nuances such as the texture of a surface, paper fibers and the width of a margin on a print. It will reveal markings, impressions, quirks, signatures and other clues of authenticity. Enlarged, a photo can reveal traits that signify whether an object is rare or common, exceptional or ordinary.
In short, photos matter.
Following the success of last year’s orchid exhibition in the Madeline F. Elder Greenhouse, the IMA will once again showcase hundreds of stunning orchids from around the world, providing the perfect tropical escape from the winter chill. New this year, the exhibition will extend through the Lilly House, using orchids as decor. An accompanying Pop-Up Shop will be installed inside the main Museum building with orchids for sale.
Featuring jewelry from the 17th through the mid-20th centuries, the exhibition traces changing styles from lavish Baroque adornments through stately Neoclassical pieces to modern Art Deco designs. Additional decorative objects, design drawings, and prints illuminate the jewelry’s place and significance within French history and culture.
Our 2017 special exhibition season begins with Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist, the first major retrospective of one of today’s most accomplished Native American artists and a leading practitioner of contemporary landscape painting.
These jaw-dropping Japanese Samurai suits will leave you awestruck with their meticulous detail and razor sharp engineering.
In Calling, Kate Kern (Cincinnati, OH) presents several new installations with recent drawings and works on paper that continue her exploration of the seen and unseen—juxtaposing real and imagined images of the natural world, often inspired by scientific drawings and diagrams, with references to the world of human religious belief.
Over the past four decades, Jane Alden Stevens (Cincinnati, OH) has photographically studied her family’s evolutionary development as it has grown in size and complexity. The resulting visual chronicle forms a multifaceted psychological portrait of her family’s changing identity, past and present.
Artist, independent curator, and educator C. M. Turner (Cincinnati, OH) curates contemporary sculpture and installation works exploring archive, artifice, and networked-connection in The Wired. Featuring collaborative works by Future Retrieval (Katie Parker and Guy Michael Davis) and Jordan Tate; Justin Hodges and Casey James Wilson; and Caroline Turner and Ian Anderson (all Cincinnati, OH, except Justin Hodges of Americus, GA); The Wired presents physical manifestations of digital content that break down the perceived boundary between the corporeal world and the Internet. Each piece contains a kinetic facet—from circulating water, to video, to virtual reality, underscoring the movement of images, objects, and information humans seek to balance in daily, mediated existence.
Andrea Bowers is an Ohio-born, Los Angeles-based artist who works at the provocative, often disruptive intersection of art-making, social justice and political activism. Raised in Wilmington, Ohio in what she calls, "an apolitical Republican family," Bowers looks to (and participates in) civil disobedience as a lens to explore contemporary causes including women’s, gay & trans rights, immigration, environmental protection and labor relations.
Experience a myth-busting exhibition that has captivated millions of people around the world, as the largest collection of Viking artifacts to visit North America comes to Cincinnati.
Noel Anderson is a Louisville, KY-born artist and a professor at the University of Cincinnati, presently working in New York City. He is known for complex investigations into the evolving make-up of black male identity translated through a variety of textiles – from old rugs to digitally produced tapestries.
"Sorting all this out is immensely pleasurable, and happily there is no resolution."—Roberta Smith, The New York Times, on Oppenheimer's D-33
