Previewing upcoming art exhibitions from coast to coast, American Art Collector is a unique monthly magazine specially designed to bring living representational artists, galleries and active art collectors together in one place.
Welcome to the December issue of American Art Collector! We can’t believe that this issue marks another trip around the sun with you! How did American Art Collector assist your art journey this year? We hope it took you to an event, an art show or a new gallery, introduced you to a few new artists, or led to the discovery of a new favorite genre to add to your collection. If you answered yes to any or all of these questions this is why you subscribe to American Art Collector. Do you want to learn more? Here is how: First, follow us on Instagram and Facebook. We have more than 640,000 followers. You will find an entire community of contemporary art lovers, like yourself, all sharing comments about what…
Hopefully by the time you are holding this magazine in your hands, the political noise has receded into the background, and we have let out a big collective sigh of relief that the presidential campaign is behind us. It is December, after all, a time when we count our blessings and take stock of all we have to be grateful for—our health, our loved ones, and life’s simple pleasures, like art. Some consider art a luxury but for many of us, and especially the artists who fill our pages, art is a necessity. It is their lifeblood, their livelihood, their means of processing, expressing and connecting. For those of us in the industry, from the gallery owners to the museum curators and the employees of magazines like this, I would…
Nov. 17, 2024-April 13, 2025 Joe Fig: Contemporary Vermeer Sarasota Art Museum Sarasota, FL • (941) 309-4300 www.sarasotaartmuseum.org Nov. 22, 2024-Jan. 18, 2025 Annual Holiday Show Susan Powell Fine Art Madison, CT • (203) 318-0616 www.susanpowellfineart.com Through November 30 Chie Yoshii: Sanctuary KP Projects Los Angeles, CA • (323) 933-4408 www.kpprojectsgallery.net Through December 1 Nom Kinnear King: Barely Be Gone Haven Gallery New York, NY • (631) 757-0500 www.havengallery.com Through December 1 Joel Sternfeld: When it Changed Georgia Museum of Art Athens, GA • (706) 542-4662 www.georgiamuseum.org December 1-31 SPACE COWBOYS 33PA Online www.poetsandartists.com www.artsy.net/show/33-contemporary-space-cowboys Dec. 1, 2024-Jan. 4, 2025 Emily Copeland and the Art of Making a Mark RJD Gallery Romeo, MI • (586) 281-3613 www.rjdgallery.com December 4-8 Spectrum Miami and Red Dot Miami Mana Wynwood Convention Center »…
The latest in contemporary American realism. The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia hosts the first major international tour focused on the work of visionary African-American T artist Mickalene Thomas, who creates elaborate, collage-inspired portraits with rhinestones, acrylic and enamel. Mickalene Thomas: All About Love celebrates Thomas’ distinct artistry through a selection of vivid paintings, collage, photography, video and site-specific installations from the late 2000s to present day. The exhibition will be on view at the Barnes Foundation through January 12, 2025, then moves to the Hayward Gallery in London from February 11 to May 5, and finally travels to Les Abattoirs, Musée–Frac Occitanie Toulouse in Toulouse, France, from June 13 to November 9.…
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of its Indigenous Arts of North America collection in 2025, the Denver Art Museum is launching a year of programming, including solo exhibitions of leading contemporary Indigenous artists Kent Monkman and Andrea Carlson. The 100th anniversary programming will also include an 8,000-square-foot reinstallation of the museum’s permanent Indigenous Arts collection spaces and a scholarly convening reflecting on the last century of collecting, as well as a nod to the future of Indigenous art and the role of museums.…
Beginning February 21, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, is holding the exhibition Photography’s New Vision: Experiments in Seeing. Bringing together more than 100 works from the museum’s robust photography collection, the exhibition looks at the impact of the New Vision movement, from its origins in the 1920s to all way to present day. Included in the show are “century-old photographs exemplifying themes from the movement along with modern and contemporary images that emphasize how technological and cultural changes in the 20th century influence related photography practices today,” the museum notes. Photography’s New Vision will be on view through July 2025.…
