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(Naturally, this time also saw the “development” of the Côte d’Azur for mass tourism, a colossal parody of the experience that Matisse and Picasso had been trying to describe.)
Robert Hughes • The Shock of the New
Knight Landesman is the Artforum publisher
Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
Charles Saatchi has manipulated perceptions and gleaned headlines for work by artists he owns by inflating prices by the millions.
Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
and Maurizio Cattelan. For the first half-decade of the twenty-first century, Segalot chose Takashi Murakami, Luc Tuymans, Matthew Barney, and Robert Gober.
Donald N. Thompson • The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
The Parade of the Power Brokers had, to anyone interested in the nuances of true power in New York State, been a good show. It was to be the last Robert Moses ever produced. The imperial guard would never charge for him again.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
Fernand Léger (1881–1955), and his work was a sustained confession of modernist hope. Léger believed, as one cannot imagine Braque doing, that he could make images of the machine age that would cut across the barriers of class and education – a didactic art for the man in the street, not highly refined, but clear, definite, pragmatic, and rooted in
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The Overlooked Work of Paul Peter Piech, Mid-century “Anti-establishment” Designer – Eye on Design
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Howard K. Smith, who fled Nazi Germany on the last train from Berlin before Hitler declared war on the United States in 1941; James Cameron, whose iconic 1946 report from the Bikini atom tests was perhaps the most literary and philosophical article ever published in a newspaper.