The Art of Living With Art

Falling for a painting is the easy part. It’s what comes next that gets complicated.

Will it work over the sofa? Is it too big, too bold, too unlike everything else in the room? Do I really love it—or do I need to know more before I trust that feeling?

That hesitation keeps a lot of great art on the gallery wall.

Maybe you’re considering your first original piece. Maybe you’ve collected for years, and a few favorites are still leaning against a wall, waiting to find their place.

The Art of Living with Art is about what happens next.

Choose with Confidence. Collect with Curiosity. Make it Personal.

Meet at 1670 Wisconsin Ave NW at 6:00 PM to start your evening with light fare and drinks. The first event will begin at 6:30 PM. More details are listed below.

Info: Begin at Addison/Ripley Fine Art by slowing down, looking closely, and noticing which works draw you in. Join private dealer and owner of Bellus Fine Art, Lesley Duncan, and gallery owner Christopher Addison for a conversation regarding art selection, curation, and working with galleries to find the art that you will love to live with. Whether it is your first work or you are adding to a robust collection, we will focus on answering questions that can stop a collector in their tracks. After the conversation, we will open the floor to questions.

Info: Next, at StudioLab RD (located at the terrace level in the same building), artist Robin Davisson, interior designer Nicole Lanteri, and Annette Rachlin of Furniture from Scandinavia will transform interior vignettes in real time, changing art, furniture, color, scale, and styling to reveal how each choice shifts a space. Same space, different choices—see what changes, hear the thinking behind it, and take home ideas for living with art in your own home.

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Addison Ripley, 1670 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, United States

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