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    The billionaire behind the new Vuitton museum in Paris

    articles/The%20billionaire%20behind%20the%20new%20Vuitton%20museum%20in%20Paris Bernard Arnault’s personal taste in art is “very elegant, very bourgeois” By Gareth Harris. Web onlyPublished online: 30 October 2014 Bernard Arnault (right) with French President Francois Hollande at the opening of the…

  • Art Decorative Arts

    The Fabergé Collection

    FabergĂ© In 1947 Lillian Thomas Pratt bequeathed to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts her remarkable collection of more than 400 Russian objects, including five Imperial Easter Eggs and approximately 170 additional works from…

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    The Case for Old-Fashioned Connoisseurship

    articles/The case for oldfashioned connoisseurship The stifling of expert opinions is like having fully trained doctors who can’t make a diagnosis, says the art historian Bendor Grosvenor By Bendor Grosvenor. Comment, Issue 258, June…