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 Louis Vuitton Foundation museum last week. …
New-York Historical Society | Holiday Express: Toys and Trains from the Jerni Collection The New-York Historical Society will be transformed this holiday season with the installation of a spectacular exhibit of treasures from the renowned Jerni Collection, now owned by the New-York Historical Society,…
Fabergé 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 the House of Fabergé. …
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 2014 Published online: 05 June 2014 Spot the difference: the…