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Henri Matisse Collage Wall-Hanging Debuted at Armory Show, New York
Henri Matisse, Océanie, 'le ciel' (1948) for sale at C|&|Co, NYC Oceanie is a masterful, two-part work by Henri Matisse, comprising ‘le ciel’ and ‘la mer’; both pieces realizing the artist’s...
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A New Abstract Expressionism Finds a Voice in the Work of a Connecticut Artist
David Taylor, Landscape, o/c, 45"x 36" The Erector Square Building in New Haven, Connecticut has long stood as a landmark of American ingenuity. For decades, it served as the manufacturing headquarters...
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Contemporary Artist Wolf Kahn: Discovering Symbolism in the Ordinary
What do you think of when you think about Wolf Kahn? Is it the fantasia palette, the barns glowing ember-like, the tangled rushes as if singed by a fire, or his hot pink shirt, green tie and strawberry...
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The Hudson River School of Painting Helps Define American Identity
John Ogilby; Arnoldus Montanus, New Netherland (New York), New England and Part of Virginia (1671). Courtesy Fordham Univ. Library, Map Coll. #13 By the mid-17th century, English claims in the New...
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Review of the 2010 Whitney Biennial Exhibition
Jesse Aron Green, Artzliche Zimmeregymnastic (Medicalized Indoor Gymnastics) (2008) If ever there were a middle-of-the-road exhibition, this year’s Whitney Biennial is it. In the spirit of an...
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Fine Art Collecting: Art Fairs and Other Insurance Underwriting Challenges
Interior of Maurice Agis's, Dreamscape (2006) Disaster would soon strike. See video, below Seeking – Director for Museum, open 4-10 days a year with hundreds of curators involved, and tens of...
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New York’s Museum of Arts and Design Explores Meaning of ‘Beauty’, in ‘Dead...
Levi van Veluw, Landscape I, from Landscape Series (2008). Courtesy, Gallery Ronmandos, Amsterdam/Rotterdam In less sure hands, New York City’s Museum of Arts and Design’s Dead or Alive, an exhibit of...
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Newport, Rhode Island’s Historic Vanderbilt Hall and Vernon Court Share...
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (circ.1910) This is a tale of two historic homes in a beautiful seaside, New England town, and of how visionary zeal and coincidence braided history, friendship and a passion...
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Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Exhibits Installation of Charles LeDray
Charles LeDray, MENS SUITS (2006-2010), mixed media In the 1970s, when late modernist monuments dominated sculpture, Joel Shapiro caused a hullabaloo when he presented his eccentric miniature work on...
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Antiques Roadshow: Standing in Line for the American Dream
At first, it seemed that a mass migration might be underway. People by the dozens and then by the hundreds moved along sidewalks and curbsides, pushing carts, pulling wagons and dollies, arms laden,...
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