Art world insights

From interviews and opinions to collecting guides and live events, unpack the art world with Insights on Avant Arte.


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interview

Gregory Crewdson – Returning to ‘Dream House’

Twenty-five years after ‘Dream House’, Gregory Crewdson revisits the series that invited some of cinema's most recognisable faces into his artfully constructed world.

10 min read
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PS1 I Love You

Happy 50th MoMA PS1! We trace five defining moments across five decades of New York’s most beloved museum.

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Man Ray

Discover the trailblazing techniques and pioneering experiments of a photographic master.

Our hanging guide
guide

Hanging your artwork

Our master framer, Rooz Deutz, from our specialist framing studio just outside Amsterdam, walks you through our simple guide to displaying your artwork perfectly.

2 min read
Detail of Roos sanding a frame
guide

Our bespoke framing studio

A great frame doesn’t just protect your artwork, it enhances it, shaping how it's seen and experienced. That’s why we’ve established our own specialist framing studio just outside Amsterdam, dedicated to crafting custom frames for each of our editions.

2 min read
Ten Decades of Alex Katz
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Ten Decades of Alex Katz

To mark our first collaboration with the Guggenheim, we’ve created an interactive timeline highlighting the milestones and impact of Alex Katz’s remarkable journey as an artist.

Installation view of Alex Katz's retrospective at the Guggenheim
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Alex Katz & Avant Arte for the Guggenheim

For our debut collaboration, Alex Katz unveils his first-ever print edition of his 1991 painting 'Ada Ada' in support of the Guggenheim.

2 min read
Printing Mickalene Thomas
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Make-Ready: A new frontier in printmaking

Make-Ready is Avant Arte's specialist printmaking studio, based in London. Together, we collaborate with some of the biggest artists in contemporary art to realise their vision and push the boundaries of what's possible in print.

An image of the artist Mark Bradford.
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Scorched Earth: A Tale of Two Cities

Mark Bradford’s abstract map works visualise the systems of race and class that have shaped American cities. To mark the release of a new silkscreen edition that translates "Scorched Earth", we unpack the parallel histories of Tulsa and LA excavated by the original.

5 min read
Jammie Holmes Painting
interview

Jammie Holmes – Painting Pan-Africanism

The Louisiana-born artist opens up about how his upbringing inspired 'Fred', our limited edition print that places Fred Hampton in Jammie’s childhood home.

8 min read
Weiwei Lisson Gallery Exhibition View
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Ai Weiwei: 'A New Chatpter'

Ai Weiwei's latest exhibition has arrived at London's Lisson Gallery. Here, we take a deep dive into select works and key themes.

4 min read
silkscreen print of a lurid green snake by Ai Weiwei
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Ai Weiwei – Combat fear with truth

Happy Lunar New Year! As we enter the Year of the Snake, Ai Weiwei shares his wisdom for the year ahead and explains why the snake is not only the most misunderstood animal in the Zodiac, but the most pertinent symbol of our times.

3 min read
Anna Ridler annotates close up images of peonies
interview

Anna Ridler – Price Per Stem

To Anna Ridler, flowers are not only symbols of the natural world, but windows into the complex socioeconomic systems that create and control them. Our collaboration looks specifically at peonies, and everything that leads up to their price on the supermarket shelf.

9 min read
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