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Other People's Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made
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I wrote that I was often asked by students: “If you had to select just one name from the whole history of photography as representative of all that is wonderful about the medium, who would it be?” My answer was always: “Bill Brandt.”
Bill Jay • LensWork #83 (The Bill Jay's Best of EndNotes issue)
it was MoMA’s first director Alfred Barr who finally cemented its strategy for display. That’s not to say that the New York museum was the first to pull together these various threads; as McClellan notes, the Harvard Art Museum and the Wadsworth Atheneum both mounted exhibitions in the early 1930s that utilized the white cube approach. “But MoMA, b
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Art Movements: Renaissance to Contemporary Era
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Western art history, from the Renaissance to the present, is a continuous, dynamic evolution reflecting humanity's shifting perceptions, intellectual pursuits, and technological advancements. This trajectory is not linear but a complex tapestry of interconnected movements, each build
... See moreThe Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
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ART PRICE RECORDS THE MOST EXPENSIVE PAINTINGS SOLD AT AUCTION Garçon à la Pipe (1905), Pablo Picasso, $104 million, Sotheby’s New York, 2004 Dora Maar au Chat (1941), Pablo Picasso, $95.2 million, Sotheby’s New York, 2006 Portrait of Dr. Gachet (1890), Vincent van Gogh, $82.5 million, Christie’s New York, 1990 (resold privately through a Sotheby’s
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