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Art and Money

Visual art is the the artistic medium most directly associated with money. A successful writer or composer may become financially successful. And a...

27.12.2024 3

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David Carrier

Museum Skepticism Revisited: the Lessons of Venice

Sometimes one’s best ideas are simple. At the end of the twentieth century, I spent the academic year in residence as a Getty Scholar in Los...

06.12.2024 4

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David Carrier

Two Cheers for Maurizio Cattelan

For H.B. Just now I see in the news that a previously little known, rarely seen portrait by Caravaggio has reappeared in Italy. Because I am very...

29.11.2024 5

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Walter Pater’s Venice

I am in my Pittsburgh study looking at an inexpensive print by Alphonse Legros (1837-1911), the French born artist who lived and worked in London....

20.09.2024 2

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Bill Beckley: A Perfect Friendship

Now and then, but this is rare, one has a perfect friendship, a loving harmonious experience rare enough to deserve a written record. I had such a...

13.09.2024 3

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The Venetian Birth of Modernism

Consider a short list of the defining qualities, the necessary and sufficient conditions of European modernism, in contrast or opposition to old...

06.09.2024 2

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David Carrier