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The Whitney Museum When art museums become a brand
The Atlantic - April 28th, 2010 04:22
Mega-cafes and gift shops. Massive new spaces. Brand building and franchising. Kyle Chayka writes in The Atlantic, "Are Fine Art Museums the Next Starbucks?" "Institutions as diverse as New York's Whitney and Museum of Modern Art, DC's Corcoran and National Gallery and Philadelphia's Barnes Foundation are all tied up in development deals somewhere between the public good and private interest," Chayka notes.  

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The fake Picasso.
Los Angeles art and antiques dealer Tatiana Khan, 70, may serve prison time for selling a fake Picasso for $2 million. She agreed to plead guilty to federal fraud charges, authorities said ...
"Balloon Dog (Orange)," from an edition of five, is owned by the Brant Foundation. Photographer: Paul Goguen/Bloomberg
California-based art fabricator Carlson & Co. is known for producing large-scale sculptures such as Jeff Koons’s giant, $20-million, stainless-steel “Balloon Dog” ...
The Gates. Image: Flickr, Pro-Zak
Artist Jeanne-Claude, who died in November at the age of 74, was honored at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a massive memorial service on Monday. "As we waited to unfurl the ...
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JAMES WEEKS, Framed oil on canvas, “Sunday Boating,” 42” x 44”Major Estate Auction
May 15-16, 2010
Clars Auction Gallery
Oakland, California
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A very rare campaign flag, made for the 1912 presidential campaign of Teddy Roosevelt, who ran on the Progressive Party ticket.SEEING STARS: POLITICS & PATRIOTISM JEFF R. BRIDGMAN AMERICAN ANTIQUES PRESENTS AMERICAN FLAGS, POLITICAL TEXTILES AND PATRIOTIC FOLK ART, ON VIEW AT THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB OF NEW YORK, 38 EAST 37TH STREET, MAY 11-29
Release Date: 28 April 2010
Jeff Bridgman, the nation’s leading dealer of antique American flags, will present “SEEING STARS:  Politics and Patriotism”, an exhibition of over fifty rare and important American flags, political textiles, and patriotic folk art at the Union League Club of New York, 38 ...

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