Press Overview
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February 12, 2025: Interview with Brenda Kelley Kim for Worth Point : “ART AS INVESTMENT: COLLECTING, CURATING & ASSET MANAGEMENT”
In the art world, it’s easy to recognize outstanding works by well-known artists. Who wouldn’t want to look at a Monet or a Picasso? The world’s great museums attract thousands of visitors every day who want to look at the classic pieces, but so many more great works are in private collections. Some collectors loan their work out to galleries, and some have residences and offices to display their pieces, but finding the right work for the right space can be a challenge. That’s where an experienced art advisor is essential to curating a cohesive collection.
October 17, 2024: Quoted in Artnet News
With a Blockbuster Arte Povera Show in Town, Dealers at Art Basel Paris Cash In on Famously Hard-to-Sell Movement.
The celebrated Italian artistic era—deeply focused on ephemeral materials—is neither cheap nor easy to acquire.
June 2024: Featured in Spear’s Magazine selection of Outstanding Art Advisers 2024
Spear’s Review
“Art Partners Advisory founder Hailey Widrig works with a mix of family offices and private collectors, and does ‘quite a bit of consulting with finance firms and investment companies wanting to invest in the market in various capacities’, she told Spear’s.
Widrig has a background in private equity but moved into the art world when she started working with a London-based family office. Now based in Paris, she offers art appraisals and valuations, including valuations under the American tax system.”
Presented by Galerie Jan Mot
Edouard Merino, Insight, 1989
"The ‘Insights’ series by Philippe Thomas provides clues about the activity of his agency, ‘readymades belong to everyone®’, launched in 1987 at Cable Gallery in New York and active until his passing in 1995. The agency offered a service which enabled collectors to affix their name to any artwork they purchased from the agency. While operating within framework of the art market, Thomas subverted the commercial system to play with ideas around authorship and reality.
This work, ‘Insight’, signed by his alias Edouard Merino, offers rare proof of Thomas’ presence in this game of art history hide and seek and recalls the philosophy of fellow artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Marcel Broodthaers, who also disrupted the art world from within. A great opportunity to purchase a historically important work from one of the best galleries for Conceptual Art."
January 2024: A written article for Sky Blue Review on the innovative tapestry collaboration between Aubusson studio Robert Four and contemporary artist Laurent Grasso.
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“Louise Lawler is one of the most important conceptual artists of our time but not one to seek the spotlight. Discreet, poetic and often witty, she plays within and against the art world to question our concepts of value, politics of the art market and those of society more broadly. It hurts is a perfect example: Lawler often makes photographs of other artists’ work in various settings and stages of progress through their lifecycle. Here she captures Jenny Holzer’s “Redaction Painting” series which represents declassified documents on the American government’s activity; the title sets the tone for the emotional context. Holzer’s works were ready to be installed for their dual exhibition in Paris at Yvon Lambert Gallery, which was at the forefront of contemporary art in Paris for decades. On a technical note, the silver-dye bleach printing technique used for the print produces beautifully rich and, importantly, very stable images, avoiding the conservation issues of other photographic techniques.” Hailey Widrig
March 6, 2025, LivingEtc
What Is the Most Expensive-Looking Blue? 7 Specific Shades to Paint Walls That Will Always Elevate Your Home
With historical connotations of royalty, divinity, authority, and melancholy, you'll likely never look at blue the same way after this.
February 20, 2025: APAA’s Top Pics from Frieze LA
“My choice for Frieze LA is this sublime Mapplethorpe Calla Lilly print presented by Gladstone Gallery. While most of us are probably familiar with this image (the Guggenheim collection holds a beautiful platinum print, for example) what is striking about this example is the large format of over 150 x 150 cm. The image is not compromised at this scale and exudes the sensuality we associate with Mapplethorpe in an elegant, ambiguous way. Gladstone has exclusive representation of the Mapplethorpe Estate so expect to see more of the best works from them in future. ”
February 2011: Quoted in Scott Reyburn’s article for Bloomberg News, '“Basquiat Tops $8.7 Million Auction; Buyer Fatigue Crimps Demand”