Word: collectors
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...while its elegant café-restaurant - with a terrace overlooking the leafy Burggarten - was the work of Austrian Arkan Zeytinoglu. Although Schröder says he is most moved by the combination of richness and simplicity of the staterooms, he adds that Duke Albert was above all a great collector of contemporary artists - a tradition followed by subsequent heads of the Albertina. "We are a living museum, which is why we are staging very modern exhibitions of contemporary art," he says. Appropriately, the opening of the new Albertina is marked by a major retrospective of the Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch...
...South Bank of the Thames is a dignified, flourishing cultural waterfront, sporting national centers for theater, film and painting. It seems an unlikely spot for a battle. But this week a major salvo will be fired, as advertising millionaire and art collector Charles Saatchi opens his much-anticipated new gallery, just a riverside stroll away from his archrival, Tate Modern, which opened to huge acclaim in 2000. Saatchi is one of the art world's most notorious figures, having used his wealth to shape a generation of British art. He favors works that make big, confrontational gestures, like Damien Hirst...
...went to Capolino and offered to help him sell 1950s baseball jerseys--long collector's items for middle-aged sports nuts--to inner-city youths. Harley proposed to first target those who could most afford M&N's finely stitched replicas--pro athletes and rappers. He started, as he puts it, "crashing parties" at New York City and Philadelphia nightclubs. Once he had P. Diddy and Fabolous on board, Harley persuaded Capolino to fly him around the country to network with other music and sports stars at awards shows, All-Star games and other big events like the Super Bowl...
After examining the historical whereabouts of the painting, Kianovsky says she thought it might have been stolen from French collector Alphonse Kahn, who lost over 2,000 pieces during the Nazi occupation...
...debt is not in dispute, ask the collector for help. Most work within the law and can help structure a payment plan...