Herb & Dorothy Vogel Built a Priceless Art Collection on a Budget
Herb & Dorothy Vogel, a couple of unassuming New Yorkers, built one of the world’s most significant collections of modern art then gave it away to the National Gallery of Art. Their shared obsession with art is by turns endearing…
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Photos of Skulls – inspired by Andreas Feininger
As a teenager I lived in downtown Hamilton, Ontario. A couple of blocks from my house was King Street, the main east-west corridor through the heart of downtown. In my neck of the woods was what the city fathers dubbed…
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MetPublications – All Publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Since 1964
You know when you go see a show at a museum and they have those awesome large-format glossy exhibition catalogues in the gift shop that (if you are like me) you wish you could afford? Well, the Metropolitan Museum of…
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Andy Warhol’s Fashion Spread for TV Guide
Andy Warhol is still one of the biggest celebrity names in the world of art. His work commands some of the highest prices ever paid, such as “Eight Elvises” (1963) which sold for $100 million in 2008. He has vast legions…
Salvador Dali & J.G. Ballard
Lately I’ve been reading a great little book, J.G. Ballard Quotes. As one might expect, it’s a collection of quotes from interviews and writings from one of my favourite authors, J.G. Ballard – you may know his work such as…
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