Open Studios

Avant Garde At Home, Living With Contemporary Art is an exhibition of cutting-edge artworks designed for the home. Learn more about how to display daring artwork in your space.

Wabi-sabi is a traditional Japanese aesthetic that embraces imperfection and incompletion. Learn more about the convention-defying beauty with a spotlight on the asymmetrical shapes, rough textures, and natural weathering of The Wabi-Sabi Collection.

Learn more about The Ornamental Artwork Collection as curators Alex Farkas and Madeline Stafford answer questions about the making of this collection in 16 words or less.

In this collection spotlight, we explore artworks that were studied and selected to elevate a Mid-Century Modern space through their deeply entrenched connections to the influences that founded the style’s era.

Defined as paintings or drawings of arrangements of object, the Still Life genre has a code of symbols that is fruitful and a history that is rich.

Open Studios honors the rich and rebellious history of en plein air painting. 

Blues has been used to set the mood of paintings. Artists draw upon blue’s gentleness for clear skies, eggshells, and flower petals. Or, they plumb into its depths, darkening it into oceans, shadows and storm clouds.

This paradoxical pairing of “still” and “life” – combined to signal the genre of painting commonly associated with strategically arranged fruit and shiny vases – is the odd couple that has ended up side-by-side for centuries. 

More than just a handy inclement weather accessory, take a closer look at the Umbrella's hidden history.