Lydia Barry Kutko Art Advisory

Purchasing Artwork from the Art Style Guide
How Object ID Helps Manage Your Collection
Object ID is the international documentation standard for identifying cultural objects and is an indispensable tool for managing your art collection.
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Preparing to Collect, Purchasing Artwork from the Art Style Guide
Why Collect When Life Changes
What happens when you engage with art from a place of certainty is a collection that merely confirms your perspective. During periods of personal growth, however, a collection can gain focus and take a surprising turn.
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Purchasing Artwork from the Art Style Guide
What an Artist’s Body of Work Says about Collectibility
The artist who makes "one-offs," who one day slides from noir realism to colorful abstract expressionism, is a tough artist to contextualize and an even tougher one for a collector to categorize.
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Preparing to Collect from the Art Style Guide
What Makes a Good Art Dealer?
Dealers represent artists with the intention of fostering and growing their careers. The manner and level of engagement in which this is done is as varied as one can imagine.
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Displaying Artwork, Preparing to Collect from the Art Style Guide
Why Train Your Eye to See Like an Art Professional?
Whether the work under examination is a copy of a painting, print or other medium, it is unlikely to read with as much gusto in your space as the original. Don't risk letting your interiors fall flat. Do risk investing in original art.
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Why Collect Art?

Whether out of casual interest or obsession, nearly one-third of Americans can be classified a collector. What’s not common are the myriad reasons they do. For the art enthusiast, collecting is the desire to create relationships which tell a unique story through a visual expression.

Why Might You Collect?

To establish or cultivate a personal aesthetic
To commune with artists, dealers, curators, collectors
To foster a relationships with spouse, partner, friends, family
To join a social group
To cure boredom
To thrill in the hunt
To relieve a basic sense of incompletion
To assert wealth or social status
To diversify a financial portfolio
To fill a space on the wall with a marquee expression
To decorate
To approximate order
To indulge in the nostalgic
To leave a mark on history
To donate to a museum or other philanthropy
To communicate political, religious and spiritual leanings
To celebrate achievement

Collectors are storytellers, recounting history, narrating or rethinking the present and projecting the future in a tale whose medium is the aesthetic. Whatever the vision, each collector’s impetus is individual.

Our Philosophy

Art collecting should be as seamless as loving something in a gallery and then taking it home, right? Unfortunately, such would be true if desire, intuition, knowledge and know-how were all equally aligned. At Lydia Barry Kutko Art Adivsory we believe collecting well is an acquired skill, one that when cultivated guarantees an infinitely more meaningful and pleasurable pursuit.

Think of your advisor as an advocate of the many dimensions of you. Our advisors will bring clarity to the collecting process, walking you through your first acquisition to the very last.

What Next?

Browse the Art Advisory Services and collecting resources found under Art Style Guide. To discuss a specific project, call (646) 389-2787.

Purchasing Artwork from the Art Style Guide

How Object ID Helps Manage Your Collection

Object ID is the international documentation standard for identifying cultural objects and is an indispensable tool for managing your art collection.

Preparing to Collect, Purchasing Artwork from the Art Style Guide

Why Collect When Life Changes

What happens when you engage with art from a place of certainty is a collection that merely confirms your perspective. During periods of personal growth, however, a collection can gain focus and take a surprising turn.

Purchasing Artwork from the Art Style Guide

What an Artist’s Body of Work Says about Collectibility

The artist who makes "one-offs," who one day slides from noir realism to colorful abstract expressionism, is a tough artist to contextualize and an even tougher one for a collector to categorize.

Preparing to Collect from the Art Style Guide

What Makes a Good Art Dealer?

Dealers represent artists with the intention of fostering and growing their careers. The manner and level of engagement in which this is done is as varied as one can imagine.

Displaying Artwork, Preparing to Collect from the Art Style Guide

Why Train Your Eye to See Like an Art Professional?

Whether the work under examination is a copy of a painting, print or other medium, it is unlikely to read with as much gusto in your space as the original. Don't risk letting your interiors fall flat. Do risk investing in original art.

Why Collect Art?

Why Might You Collect?

Our Philosophy

What Next?