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09/07/2026

National Grandma Moses Day is observed each year on September 7, honoring the birthday of American folk artist Anna Mary Robertson Moses.

Known as Grandma Moses, she began painting seriously in her late 70s after arthritis made embroidery too difficult. Her nostalgic scenes of rural and farm life became beloved for their warmth, detail, and sense of memory.

The day was proclaimed by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1960 for her 100th birthday.

Grandma Moses Day celebrates creativity, perseverance, and the idea that it is never too late to begin a new artistic path.

Original artwork brings structure, presence, and emotion to a space.A strong piece can create a focal point, giving the ...
09/04/2026

Original artwork brings structure, presence, and emotion to a space.

A strong piece can create a focal point, giving the eye a place to rest and helping organize the surrounding design. In open-concept interiors, artwork can also define different areas through scale, placement, and visual weight.

Beyond design, art shapes atmosphere. Color, subject, and surface influence how a room feels and how people experience it. Artworks can become defining features—adding individuality, depth, and lasting visual impact to a space.

Opening September 24, “Remain Present” features a collection of works by American artist Nicholas Roes.The exhibition co...
09/01/2026

Opening September 24, “Remain Present” features a collection of works by American artist Nicholas Roes.

The exhibition considers gesture as evidence of the artist’s presence. Each work carries traces of its making through movement, texture, and the accumulation of material. Marks, layers, and surfaces become records of time, attention, and physical engagement.

At a moment when images can be generated, reproduced, and circulated with increasing ease, “Remain Present” returns attention to the act of making itself. The collection emphasizes painting as a physical encounter between artist and material—one shaped by touch, decision, revision, and presence.

On view at International Art Acquisitions.
Shown here: Catching a Breeze, acrylic collage on canvas, 36 × 48 in.

Featured in Stride and Gesture, this work by David Noalia captures the horse as a study in movement, discipline, and exp...
08/26/2026

Featured in Stride and Gesture, this work by David Noalia captures the horse as a study in movement, discipline, and expressive force.

The result is a work that feels both elegant and charged, balancing classical equestrian imagery with a contemporary painterly language.

Stride and Gesture is on view August 1 through October 31, 2026, at International Art Acquisitions.

As summer begins to wind down, it is a practical time to review the records that support your collection.Updated apprais...
08/23/2026

As summer begins to wind down, it is a practical time to review the records that support your collection.

Updated appraisals help ensure that artwork is properly documented for insurance coverage, estate planning, charitable donation, resale consideration, or long-term collection management. Values can shift over time, and older records may no longer reflect current market conditions, condition changes, or provenance updates.

An appraisal is more than a number. It provides context, documentation, and a clearer understanding of the work within your collection.
International Art Acquisitions offers appraisal services and collection guidance for private collectors, estates, and families looking to better understand and protect the artwork they own.

Learn More: https://internationalartacquisitions.com/appraisals/
Image: Winslow Homer, The Gulf Stream, 1899. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

American Artist Appreciation Month | Edward HopperEdward Hopper remains one of the most recognizable voices in American ...
08/20/2026

American Artist Appreciation Month | Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper remains one of the most recognizable voices in American art.
Through quiet interiors, empty streets, coastal houses, and figures caught in moments of stillness, Hopper captured a distinctly modern sense of American life. His paintings are not simply scenes of place, but studies of light, distance, and psychological atmosphere.

Works such as Nighthawks, Automat, and his Cape Cod paintings continue to resonate because they hold both familiarity and unease. Hopper understood how architecture, shadow, and silence could become emotional subjects.
Hopper’s work reminds us that American art often finds its strength in observation—revealing meaning in the spaces, routines, and quiet moments that define everyday life.

Images: Edward Hopper, Nighthawks and Automat. Image references courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago and Des Moines Art Center. Cape Cod Evening, 1939. Image references courtesy of the PBS American Masters.

Opening at the end of August, CHART Art Fair returns to Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen from August 27–30, 2026.Re...
08/17/2026

Opening at the end of August, CHART Art Fair returns to Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen from August 27–30, 2026.

Recognized as a leading platform for Nordic contemporary art, CHART brings together prominent galleries, artists, collectors, and art professionals within one of Copenhagen’s most historic cultural settings. The fair extends beyond the traditional gallery format, with public programming, books and prints, and a site-specific sculpture exhibition at Tivoli Gardens.

For collectors, fairs like CHART offer more than access to individual works. They provide a wider view of regional artistic practice, emerging voices, and the institutions shaping contemporary art today.

As summer closes, CHART offers an important look at the strength and direction of the Nordic art scene.

Image: CHART Art Fair at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. Image reference courtesy of CHART / participating art fair coverage.

On view in Stride and Gesture, David Noalia’s work moves between refinement and expressive energy.While known for his dy...
08/14/2026

On view in Stride and Gesture, David Noalia’s work moves between refinement and expressive energy.

While known for his dynamic equestrian subjects, Noalia also brings the same sense of movement and immediacy to floral compositions. In this painting, color appears to bloom outward from the center—layered, gestural, and alive with motion. Bright pinks, greens, reds, and blues emerge against a quiet gray ground, creating a balance between elegance and spontaneity.

The result is a work that feels both delicate and forceful, capturing the natural world not as something still, but as something constantly unfolding.
Stride and Gesture is on view August 1 through October 31, 2026, at International Art Acquisitions.

08/11/2026

Closing at the end of August, “Beyond the Streets” at the Grande Halle de La Villette in Paris brings together one of the most ambitious presentations of street art and urban culture to date.

On view from May 27 through August 30, 2026, the exhibition features more than 120 artists from 30 countries, with monumental murals, site-specific works, and installations created for the historic Paris venue.

After presentations in London and New York, the exhibition’s arrival in Paris reflects the continued recognition of artistic movements that began outside traditional institutions. Street art, graffiti, and urban visual culture are now understood not only as acts of expression, but as fields with their own histories, materials, communities, and cultural influence.

For collectors and viewers, exhibitions like this offer important context. They show how movements once considered marginal can become central to the broader story of contemporary art.

Video: BEYOND THE STREETS Paris exhibition clip.

Ellsworth Kelly helped redefine American abstraction through color, shape, edge, and scale.Working across painting, scul...
08/08/2026

Ellsworth Kelly helped redefine American abstraction through color, shape, edge, and scale.

Working across painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and collage, Kelly reduced visual experience to its most essential forms. His work often appears simple at first, but that clarity comes from careful observation—of architecture, shadows, plants, fragments of landscape, and the visual patterns of daily life.

In works such as Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance, Kelly explored how color could function independently from image or narrative. By using chance to determine placement, he shifted attention toward structure, perception, and the physical act of looking.

During American Artist Appreciation Month, Kelly’s work reminds us that American art has often advanced through restraint, precision, and a willingness to see the ordinary world in entirely new terms.

Image: Ellsworth Kelly, Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance II, 1951. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © Ellsworth Kelly Foundation.

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