Aaron Roni Neumark’s Astounding Collection

Photo by Mariano Vivanco Dr. Aaron Roni Neumark presides over the most astonishing and historically significant collection of Judaica in the world, accumulated over hundreds of years by his family and enlarged by him. The family history is fascinating enough: a saga of tribulations, oppression and near obliteration, and ultimate survival, worthy of a Hollywood […]

Laurent Asscher: the stratospheric rise of an art patron

Laurent Asscher @AMA Venezia, artwork: WADE GUYTON, photography by Matteo de Mayda Laurent Asscher seems to have achieved the seemingly impossible: in the space of just over 10 years, he has joined the stratospheric yet minuscule world of mega collectors turned art patrons. The art world is magnificently intricate and notoriously complex to navigate, and […]

Lio Malca’s Art Universe

The Art Collector Lio Malca had an auspicious start in art. His father, owner of a chain of stores in Colombia, sent him to study finance and economics in Miami and Boston. Upon graduation, Lio did not want to move back to Colombia, so he visited a relative in New York City who had worked […]

John Marquez: art collector

Beneath the laid-back, effortless grace of a Floridian in his early 40’s, John Marquez has forged a remarkably rapid reputation for his advances as an art collector. Photo credit: Kevin Beltran Marquez shares his story with a degree of charming modesty that gives the impression that opening Marquez Art Projects,  one of the most anticipated […]