Experts discuss how market appreciation
is affecting art apprec iation

On a recent trip to the Whitney Museum of American Art’s “Picasso and American Art” exhibition, with two collectors in tow, PaceWildenstein president Marc Glimcher stood listening as the pair assessed the works: “‘This is great, this is terrible, this is worth $8 million, this is worth $15 million, that’s an A, that’s a B plus,’” he recounts.

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The art world backers of Barack Obama

NEW YORK. Figures released last month by the Federal Election Commission show that Senator Barack Obama raised more money ($24.8m) than Senator Hillary Clinton ($19.1m) during the first quarter of the Democratic primary campaign.

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Rosenthal revealed: a nude portrait of the Royal Academy's exhibitions secretary goes on show

LONDON. Royal Academy (RA) exhibitions secretary Norman Rosenthal’s secret past as a model is revealed in a painting which was unveiled on Friday. Beachy Head, Break of Day, by Jeffery Camp, shows Mr Rosenthal as an athletic, nude forty-year-old, floating above the cliffs. “It’s a picture which is full of the delights of eroticism,” Camp told The Art Newspaper.

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