https://gallereo.com/blog.html Blog Posts RSS Feed en-us 2026-05-20T14:46:41+01:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-legal-limbo-ends-for-recovered-art-horde-post-2161-55.html <div><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/gurlitt.jpg" width="350" height="234" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />Faithful readers will no doubt remember the story of the treasure trove of artwork discovered recently in the attic of an elderly man in Munich and his... 2016-12-16T15:35:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-legal-limbo-ends-for-recovered-art-horde-post-2161-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-the-hunt-for-marcos-missing-art-post-2159-55.html <div><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/istock empty frame.jpg" width="350" height="294" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />It's not unusual for art thefts to make front page news, no matter where they happen in the world. But there is one long-running hunt for... 2016-12-14T15:20:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-the-hunt-for-marcos-missing-art-post-2159-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-is-trump-s-time-photograph-subversive-art--post-2157-55.html <div><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/trump time.jpg" width="263" height="350" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />So it looks like the world is going to have to come to terms with the presidency of Donald Trump, of all people. What once seemed like a joke (in... 2016-12-09T14:54:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-is-trump-s-time-photograph-subversive-art--post-2157-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-artist-spotlight-miguel-chevalier-post-2155-55.html <div><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/voutes_celestes_miguel_chevalier_04b_0.jpg" width="350" height="233" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />For thousands of years, churches of every denomination were the center points of art and culture in the West and beyond.... 2016-12-07T05:20:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-artist-spotlight-miguel-chevalier-post-2155-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-artist-spotlight-redux-sky-ladder-post-2153-55.html <div>&nbsp;<span id="docs-internal-guid-f47371ec-d925-3625-a3ce-55e09ceccf3c"> <div dir="ltr">In the past, we wrote an Artist Spotlight about Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, and a relatively strange installation piece he had created involving tortoises. In today's follow up we're going to look at a... 2016-12-02T05:00:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-artist-spotlight-redux-sky-ladder-post-2153-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-truth-lies-and-art-preservation-post-2151-55.html <div><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/factum.jpg" width="350" height="234" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />We recently wrote an edition of Artist Spotlight that featured the work of a young boy hoping to recreate the lost works of his cultural heritage as a... 2016-11-30T02:31:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-truth-lies-and-art-preservation-post-2151-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-stasi-stained-glass-post-2149-55.html <div><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/stasi stained glass.jpg" width="350" height="233" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />When one thinks of secret police, art is rarely the next subject to come to mind - unless it's in conjunction with the quality of... 2016-11-25T02:16:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-stasi-stained-glass-post-2149-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-cooking-with-gala-post-2147-55.html <div><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/dali dinner table.jpg" width="351" height="250" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />Salvador Dali is arguably one of the most famous artists in the world, and certainly one of the most famous artists of the Surrealist... 2016-11-23T01:45:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-cooking-with-gala-post-2147-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-can-trump-be-good-for-the-art-world-or--post-2145-55.html <div><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/sotheby's.jpg" width="350" height="197" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />It's probably fair to say that most artists generally find themselves on the more socially progressive side of the political spectrum. Facism, as an... 2016-11-18T23:46:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-can-trump-be-good-for-the-art-world-or--post-2145-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-artist-spotlight-nenous-thabit-post-2143-55.html <div><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/nenous-thabit-0.jpg" width="350" height="259" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />Continuing our theme of hope in the face of strife from last week with another dose of perspective, today's Artist Spotlight is going to look at... 2016-11-16T21:04:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-artist-spotlight-nenous-thabit-post-2143-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-a-sense-of-perspective-post-2141-55.html <div><span id="docs-internal-guid-847bbf0c-d765-a229-f666-3eba780dc00f"> <div dir="ltr">Many artists like to style themselves as rebels of some description. Whether they are taking on social preconceptions, highlighting biases or simply experimenting with brand new techniques in an innovative way,... 2016-11-11T20:50:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-a-sense-of-perspective-post-2141-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-dump-trump-post-2139-55.html <div><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/istock duchamp.jpg" width="309" height="350" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />What is it with artists and toilets?<br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-c179173d-d739-7f73-0706-20c34f8bde85"><br /> <div dir="ltr">From the days... 2016-11-09T20:03:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-dump-trump-post-2139-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-art-market-disruptors-post-2137-55.html <div><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/istock disruption.jpg" width="350" height="233" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />One of the biggest buzzwords spawned by the tech industry in recent memory is 'disruption'. It more or less does what it says on the tin, but... 2016-11-04T19:49:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-art-market-disruptors-post-2137-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-project-spotlight-common-ground-post-2135-55.html <div><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/commonground.jpg" width="350" height="234" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />Only rarely do the art world and the Guinness Book of World Records find themselves in common company, but that was just what happened thanks to... 2016-11-02T18:22:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-project-spotlight-common-ground-post-2135-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-in-lighter-news-post-2133-55.html <div><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/istock tree.jpg" width="349" height="232" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />Things may have seemed a bit grim in our last post, so in honour of Halloween we've decided to take things in a somewhat brighter direction this... 2016-10-31T18:20:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-in-lighter-news-post-2133-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-real-life-or-movie-plot--post-2131-55.html <div><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/istock%20mafia.jpg" width="350" height="233" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />The art world never ceases to amaze. This sheer amazement is one of the most appealing aspects of the entire business, one that more than makes... 2016-10-29T19:18:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-real-life-or-movie-plot--post-2131-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-artist-spotlight-hoxxoh-post-2121-55.html <div><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/hoxxoh.jpg" width="350" height="350" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />If you've been to downtown Miami in the last couple of years - perhaps during a visit to Art Basel Miami Beach (we wish) - you've probably passed one of... 2016-10-26T20:53:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-artist-spotlight-hoxxoh-post-2121-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-art-emotion-and-neurobiology-post-2119-55.html <div><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/istock%20glasses.jpg" width="349" height="232" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />You might remember a post from earlier this year about museum pranks, and a case of mistaken identity. A pair of ordinary eyeglasses were left... 2016-10-21T18:27:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-art-emotion-and-neurobiology-post-2119-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-get-ready-for-vessel--post-2117-55.html <div><span id="docs-internal-guid-eea8855d-3c28-3881-0087-6a86d35e9e4e"><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/vessel.jpg" width="351" height="196" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />Continuing our theme of New York from the previous week, in this post we're going to... 2016-10-19T18:23:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-get-ready-for-vessel--post-2117-55.html https://gallereo.com/blog-observer-on-public-functional-art-aka-design--post-2115-55.html <div><img src="/clients/c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b/image/istock%20design.jpg" width="350" height="232" vspace="12" hspace="12" align="right" alt="" />Full disclosure: this writer is also classically trained as a designer, despite a dilettante's interest in a wide range of artistic disciplines.... 2016-10-14T18:20:00+00:00 https://gallereo.com/blog-observer-on-public-functional-art-aka-design--post-2115-55.html