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One Piece Worth Seeing

Against “Each to Their Own”: What We Mean When We Say Good Art

One Piece Worth Seeing

Where Art Is Bought - and What Those Places Ask of You

What the Epstein Files Reveal About the Art World

Living Without a Past. On reading, imitation and the self in the perpetual present

A Collector’s Note - May

Haunted by Its Presence

Whose Idea Was It Anyway?

How I Work With Collectors

The New Patronage, or Fantasy Football For Collectors

The Satiric Grotesque

A Collector’s Note - April

The Time an Artist Needs

Buy What You Love. Then What?

The Work Comes From Somewhere

A Collector’s Note - March

The Strange Grief of Moderate Success

The Wise Middle

We’ve Had Enough of Experts (Apparently)

The Artist-Dealer Relationship: When It Works, When It Fails

I Don’t Know Much About Art

A Collector’s Note - February

A White Paper - addressed, obliquely, to government

The Image That Never Existed

Who Sets the Direction of Contemporary Art?

How Galleries Actually Make (and Lose) Money

Hanging Pictures at Home

A Collector’s Note - January

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