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One Who Did, and One Who Didn’t
Seven years ago, I was at the Montclair Art Museum viewing...
Corn Belt Surrealist
Ellen Lanyon, a Chicago artist who later ended up in New...
Selling the Mona Lisa
What’s the Mona Lisa worth? The short answer is, whatever...
Not Hip
Two things happened last month that served for me as...
It’s Worth What Now?
Last month the Pursuits section of Bloomberg.com published...
Fool for Art
If you asked a hundred urban twenty-somethings to describe...
Jackson Pollock, Meet J.G. Brown
All of us know someone with a seemingly effortless sense...
George
In 1981, in an act of faith that today makes me shudder at...
Connoisseurs
One of the joys and nuisances of having been trained as an...
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . . ~Robert Frost...
Johnny-One-Note, or, Catalogues Raisonnés in Hell
I am ordinarily the soul of benevolence and good will...
The Naked Lady in the Room
I was once visiting a collector’s home, admiring his works...