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Sneak peek: On becoming an art collector, from an interview with Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner
Posted on October 14, 2015For more than 30 years, Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner have devoted themselves to contemporary art, and through their passion and acumen have assembled an extraordinary collection. This fall, […] -
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For Helena Rubinstein, Beauty was Power
Posted on February 24, 2015Ivy Sanders Schneider — Makeup can act as a symbol both of liberation and oppression. Contentious and unavoidable, ads for lipstick line the subway, and giant mascaraed eyes blink from […] -
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Reminiscences of a Collector
Posted on July 24, 2014Elizabeth Malchione – Like many Yale students this summer, the Pearlman Collection is traveling abroad. Earlier this month, the exhibition Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the […] -
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Classic Modern: The Art Worlds of Joseph Pulitzer Jr.
Posted on May 13, 2013For the May 13 centennial of Joseph Pulitzer Jr.’s birth, Marjorie B. Cohn, author of Classic Modern, the first biography of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. to focus on his art collecting—arguably his greatest passion—and his […] -
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Art and Activism
Posted on August 29, 2011As noted in Art and Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil, edited by Josef Helfenstein and Laureen Schipsi, the de Menils’ collection was a conscious effort to increase others’ welfare. They considered art “a basic human necessity,” not something to be monopolized by the rich, and intended their art to educate generations that came long after them. -
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Women with Good Taste: The Cone Sisters and Matisse
Posted on August 8, 2011When modern artists like Picasso and Matisse first started trying to sell the public on their work, the experience was extremely difficult—everyone knows just how successful Van Gogh was, after […] -
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Midnight in Paris
Posted on July 12, 2011If you’ve seen Woody Allen’s recent movie, Midnight in Paris, then you know the protagonist gets to live a fantasy: experiencing Paris in the 1920s. See a roundup selection of Yale ARTbooks on artists, writers, and collectors of the avant-garde Parisian Jazz Age. -
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A Summertime Rush of Art Collecting
Posted on May 31, 2011The Steins were not the only Jewish American family interested in collecting the strikingly profound works of the Modernist era; in fact, they were friends with Baltimore sisters Claribel and […] -
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Yale Collects Gertrude Stein
Posted on May 27, 2011Last weekend at SFMOMA was the opening of “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde”, an exhibition showcasing the energy, creativity, and artistic patronage of the Stein family: […]