Real Bodies: A Tribute to Linda Nochlin
In the summer of 1994, the end of my second year at the IFA and Linda Nochlin’s first, she came to stay with my…
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The Inequality of Contemporary Art
In an 1854 painting called The Meeting, a young Gustave Courbet depicted himself encountering a rich art patron and his servant. Such was the…
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The First Modern Art Dealer and the Movement He Incited
Impresario, entrepreneur, gambler, and connoisseur – the French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922) was all of these. He was also a force in fostering…
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