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Partnering with you in THE pursuit

After two decades as a strategic advisor to arts institutions, Laura Bradley translated her passion and knowledge into finding great art for individuals and businesses.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, shaped by years in New York, and a longtime resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Laura has always been fascinated by human creativity and the irrepressible impulse of artists to make and share new things in the world.

As a consultant, Laura has worked with grassroots art spaces and major museums—including SFMOMA, the de Young, LACMA, and The Met. Today, as a private art advisor, her mission is to introduce clients to exceptional artists, emerging and established, and guide them towards work that will not only enhance their lives, but complement and enhance the spaces where they live, work, and play.

Laura brings deep knowledge of the arts landscape—from galleries, to museums, to alternative art spaces—and enduring personal relationships with artists, museum curators, and art world leaders. Her focus is art from the mid-20th century to now, and she especially enjoys leading clients toward underrepresented and emerging artists who are making museum-quality work.

MUSINGS

Muse is a fun word. It's great as a verb (to be absorbed in thought) and a noun (a source of inspiration) and when both come together, we make courageous, meaningful choices. Here, I share some musings: links and images that I find curious and intriguing. Visual beauty is everywhere, often unexpected or paradoxical—like a blade of grass bursting through asphalt—and we need it now more than ever. The best artists create visual beauty: the kind that makes us pause and think, evokes emotion, and asks us to look more deeply. Great art offers a window and a mirror to life itself in all of its impossibly gorgeous contradictions. 

SITES WORTH VISITING

Forsyth's Saturday Marnin Cartoons

The New York Times T List

Artsy, New This Week

Maira Kalman, artist and illustrator

Perspectives from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorful numbering painted on a street sidewalk, arranged in a sequence from 1 to 11, with varying directions and colors.
Tall palm trees with green fronds against a clear blue sky.
Manhattan cityscape view through a rain-speckled window with trees in the foreground and tall buildings, including a spire, in the background.
A young girl walking in front of a wall display of black and white photographs in frames.
A pink-leaved flowering tree growing next to a sidewalk with fallen petals on the ground, against a beige wall with graffiti and an overcast sky.
A drawing of a smiling person with glasses and a hat, holding a drink, with the word 'OUI' in a speech bubble, and a raised fist next to their head.
A girl standing in front of a large abstract painting by Pablo Picasso of five women with varied skin tones and hair styles, in MOMA New York.
Pink clouds against a blue sky during sunset.
An orange tabby cat lying on a wooden table next to a brown vase with orange flowers, in front of a blue and orange sign with Arabic and English text about hardware store tools.
White spray-painted message on dark concrete pavement reads, 'remember how much I Love you.'
Display of six colorful patterned neckties hanging on a rod and six decorated high-heeled shoes on a shelf below, with a gray background.
A green buoy floating in the water near a concrete shoreline.