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Category: Essays & Criticisn

03Jan
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ART MARKET: SHOW ME THE ART — I MEAN THE MONEY

By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 22 OCTOBER 2012 — The artist who wants to make a living by his art who does not accept that he is running a small…

03Jan
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COMMENT: ROLLING STONES 50 & COUNTING TOUR IT'S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL (BUT I MANAGED TO SCORE A TICKET)

By Alan Behr NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, 25 DECEMBER 2012 — If they are to endure, improvisations that arise from communal experiences will refine themselves into ritual.  So it was at…

03Jan
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GALA GLITTERS AS WALL STREET SHATTERS

By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 25 SEPTEMBER 2008 – Investment banks were either imploding, restructuring or surrendering their independence, stocks were falling and Congress was debating an emergency bailout package…

03Jan
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IN HIS OWN IMAGE: SHEPARD FAIREY FIGHTS TO REDEFINE COPYRIGHT LAW

By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 3 MARCH 2009 I. Don’t Fight the Law. It May Simply Change its Mind. Even a few years ago, street artists such as Shepard Fairey…

03Jan
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LISTENING TO THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF RALPH GIBSON

By Alan Behr PARIS, 1 MAY 2018 — When you have what, in photography, could be called celebrity status and have held that honor for close to half a century,…

03Jan
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COMMENT: CATTELAN'S 'AMERICA' AT THE GUGGENHEIM

By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 1 OCTOBER 2016 — The spiraling rotunda of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was closed recently, the floor filled with great crates in natural wood and…

03Jan
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RIPPLE EFFECT: LEO CASTELLI AND THE BIRTH OF THE CONTEMPORARY ART MARKET

By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 7 MAY 2010 — Whether Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, the Picasso painting that a few days ago sold for a record-breaking $106.5 million, is…

03Jan
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BOOK REVIEW ITALIAN STYLE — FASHION SINCE 1945

By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 8 DECEMBER 2015 — One of the mysteries that Italy presents to the world is how style seems to come so naturally and happen so…

03Jan
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CARTIER-BRESSON AND THE DECISIVE MOMENT

By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 7 JUNE 2010  — Although time has vindicated those who include photography among the fine arts, current trends have made artistic credibility rather difficult to retain…

02Dec
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REVIEW: BRITAIN'S BILL BRANDT AT MoMA

By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 18 JULY 2013 — If Susan Sontag was right that photography flourishes in warrior cultures, Britain should have contributed to photography in parallel to its…

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