Tag Archives: Contemporary

The first time I encountered Duke Riley’s work was at Rockaway Beach in Queens taking place 10 years ago. He won third prize in a sandcastle competition for his sculpture of a White Castle decorated with shells, seaweed, and other natural materials he collected from nearby Dead Horse Bay. The artist’s new show at the Brooklyn Museum also uses objects …

For Melissa Neumann, collecting is in her blood. Her grandfather Morton G. Neumann began buying art in the 1950s, traveling to Europe with her father, Hubert Neumann, and befriending artists including Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. After Morton’s death, in 1984, Hubert began shifting his focus to emerging artists such as Jeff Koons and Jean-Michel Basquiat—a passion that he passed …