Art & Object had the pleasure of talking to Leah Steinhardt, the Group Director of the Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design fair (SOFA). In the conversation, Steinhardt discussed the upcoming 2019 fair's theme, her thoughts on collecting art objects, and how the 26 year old fair continues to stay true to its mission.
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In the past decade, interest in Urban and New Contemporary art has exploded among collectors and the general public alike. The massive amount of media coverage and overwhelmingly positive response to Bansky's recent Love is in the Bin ("Shredded Balloon Girl") is a testament to how far this kind of art, once seen as the work of mere hooligans, has come. Moniker Art Fair, dedicated to championing the Urban and New Contemporary Art scene, has played a big part in this transformation.
Though photographer and ethnographer Edward Curtis’s The North American Indian is an iconic work in the American historical canon, Christopher Cardozo, an Edward Curtis scholar, estimates most people are only familiar with 2–5 percent of Curtis’s work.
