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Dealer’s Hand
The New Yorker - Nick Paumgarten
Why are so many people paying so much money for art? Ask David Zwirner, one of the world’s most powerful art dealers. Very important people line up differently from you and me. They don’t want to stand behind anyone else, or to acknowledge wanting something that can’t immediately be had. If there’s …
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Spot On
The New Yorker - Peter Schjeldahl
Hirst will go down in history as a peculiarly cold-blooded pet of millennial excess wealth. The art of Damien Hirst puts me in mind of a New Yorker cartoon by Peter Steiner, from 1997. One of two vultures on a bare branch argues, “Sure, dead is important. But it has to taste good.” That finicky …
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Banksy Was Here
The New Yorker - Lauren Collins
Banksy, the invisible man of graffiti art, sees himself as a “quality vandal”—and his anti-authoritarian whimsy has won him a colossal following. The British graffiti artist Banksy likes pizza, though his preference in toppings cannot be definitively ascertained. He has a gold tooth. He has a silver …
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The Misfit
The New Yorker - Judith Thurman
The designer’s genius is for wrapping up the paradoxes of being a misfit and a cipher in something to wear that is magically misfitting. Does it really matter what one wears? I sometimes think my life might have been different if I had chosen the other wedding dress. I was getting married for the …
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Forty-one False Starts
The New Yorker - Janet Malcolm
How to profile David Salle, the postmodern painter? Try starting your piece forty-one times. There are places in New York where the city’s anarchic, unaccommodating spirit, its fundamental, irrepressible aimlessness and heedlessness have found especially firm footholds. Certain transfers between …

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