The Journey of a Collector II of III: Collecting Requires Research

Collectors must educate themselves about what they are collecting. My regret is the lack of formal training in art history. However, being an academic helped. I devoured books on art and befriended leading experts of Indian art to accelerate my learning.  Still, I remained eclectic by not relying on any one of the experts. Instead,…

The Journey of a Collector I of III: Strategy is Choice

This semester has been an intense one as I had a 5 courses workload. Combined with the effort required for an art exhibition at SMU that I am also trying to pull off has meant no time for writing any weekend read. One of my teaching assignments was a DBA program in Shanghai that SMU…