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At last, the Smithsonian gets Colbert
January 22,
2008 - Los Angeles Times
The line outside the bathroom at the
National Portrait Gallery has been out the door ever since museum officials
decided to hang a portrait of late-night host Stephen Colbert between the men's
and women's restrooms.
Finalists Named for Hugo Boss Prize
January 2,
2008 - The New York Times
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
has chosen the six finalists for its 2008 Hugo Boss Prize. The award, given
every two years to an artist who the jury decides has made an important
contribution to contemporary art, is worth $100,000 this year, twice what
winners have received since its inception in 1996.
Sticker Shock a Hazard, Even When the Artists Are Only Potential
Stars
December 15, 2007 - The New York Times
I
PLOTTED my executive pursuit of starting a contemporary art collection from a
supercaffeinated base camp in the Empire Diner at 10th Avenue and West 22nd
Street in Manhattan. It was dark and early on a wintery Thursday morning. The
sky outside the diner’s Art Deco-style windows looked like an ominous gray
abstraction. But my guide, Simon Watson, a 52-year-old art consultant with
close-cropped silver hair and indigo clothes, was in a sunny
mood.
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