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The Artist in Question (Plus a Postscript on Stan)
This past May, I wrote a blog about the art seen on the...
Jackson, Meet T-Rex
If you’ve been crazy about dinosaurs since you were a kid...
Obscene Flipping
One of the most celebrated artist/collector confrontations...
Buying in the Boondocks
There’s a pleasant fantasy, held even by those who should...
Fake or Fortune
Almost forty years ago, working for Ira Spanierman...
What’s That on the Wall?
One of the now-normal occurrences of life in this Age of...
No Canary Here
Economists may not have caught on yet, but the art market...
Up in Smoke
I got the kind of call last month that no dealer,...
Something Wrong with the Mouth
John Singer Sargent famously said that a portrait is a...
Rags to Riches – or Not
Roberta and I were in the Metropolitan Museum of Art the...
A Pig in a Virtual Poke
“The art business is not something you can equate to any...
Size Does Matter
Any art dealer knows that the size of the painting he or...