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Posters & Ephemera Auction...
With the advent of Internet auction sites, it may seem that traditional auction houses will soon be going the way of the dinosaur. But Skinner's Motion Pictures Posters & Ephemera auction on Nov. 20 proved that the traditional auction venue is still popular, and in fact thriving in these modern times...
...Baskett does not compare himself to Atget or Brassai; their tradition of exploring and exposing the very skin and bones of Paris inside is not his own. Instead, "These photographs concern small moments and transient feelings, ephemera that may never have existed outside [a] single morning's ramble...
Duchamp, famous for the signed urinal and The Large Glass, and Joseph Cornell, not so famous for living with his mother in Queens, N.Y., and making densely intricate boxes of ephemera such as apothecary jars, photos, paper clippings and decorated wood cubes, formed a kind of pack-rat pack of two in the '40s after Duchamp enlisted Cornell to work on his portable museum, Boite-en-Valise. Cornell's collection of the trimmings--notes, receipts, old glue boxes--of their meetings forms the Duchamp Dossier and the centerpiece of this show. Neither a great Cornell nor a great Duchamp exhibition...
...magic shows and his obsession with keeping office overhead down ("It's what killed the Egyptians!"), saw that Viagra could easily become one more way of separating the haves from the have-nots. His book Memos from the Chairman collects 17 years' worth of messages to his staff on ephemera such as returning every phone call, reusing envelopes and rationing cabs...