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...final group is also split between Boston-area residents and outsiders, according to Guggenheim Professor Criminal Justice Mark H. Moore, one of 10 advisors to the search process who reviewed the applicants' resumes...
...same level as De Kooning's or Pollock's. He certainly shared the early Abstract Expressionist interest in primitive art, totems, archetypal forms. And its general legacy from '30s Picasso too: Pousette-Dart's Portrait of Pegeen, 1943 (the subject was the deeply neurotic teenage daughter of Peggy Guggenheim, his dealer), is heavily dependent on Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror. There is also a scary Expressionist insight to the chaotic congestion of Pegeen's head, staring at her reflection reduced to one bulging eye and blond Veronica Lake tresses. But Pousette-Dart was a stiff, poor draftsman, with...
...background: Silber was born in San Antonio, Texas. His father was a German immigrant, and his mother was a school-teacher. He graduated from Trinity University, and earned his masters and his doctorate degrees in philosophy from Yale University. He was a Fulbright Fellow in 1959 and and a Guggenheim Fellow in 1963. He and his wife Kathryn have seven children. They live in Brookline...
...background: Silber was born in San Antonio, Texas. His father was a German immigrant, and his mother was a school-teacher. He graduated from Trinity University, and earned his masters and his doctorate degrees in philosophy from Yale University. He was a Fulbright Fellow in 1959 and and a Guggenheim Fellow in 1963. He and his wife Kathryn have seven children. They live in Brookline...
Thus one man spent $160.6 million for a brace of paintings, sending the top end of the market from obscenity into farce; and the drain of America's cultural patrimony continued, watched by hamstrung museums that were now selling, not buying. New York's Guggenheim Museum sold a 1914 Kandinsky for $20.9 million and a fine early Chagall for $14.85 million. Long may the museum's public rejoice in the American minimal and conceptual art -- bricks on the floor, words on paper and the like -- that it plans to buy with the proceeds...