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...slept' in these centuries so that he could be rediscovered." The most impressive gathering ever of his work, "Piero della Francesca and the Italian Courts," runs from March 31 through July 22. Appropriately, it is taking place in the far eastern corner of Tuscany, at Arezzo's State Museum of Medieval and Modern Art and in the surrounding area, which offers a chance to see works on loan alongside some of his best-known frescoes on permanent display in his home region...
...what he calls "starchitecture" for creating the rush on contemporary design. "If you've seriously been collecting art for 25 years and you've got all the best pieces of the artists you collect, and you're ready to retire, then you're going to build your own personal museum," he explains. And in that "museum," the object you sit on has to be as important as the art on the walls. Meyers estimates that 90% of the people collecting design are contemporary-art collectors. "The art world is eating us up," he says. "Marc Newson didn...
...understood the appeal of a muscular, whirring engine. Robert Petersen, who in the late 1940s launched what became a $450 million media empire by starting Hot Rod and Motor Trend magazines, spent his career nurturing America's obsession with cars. Among his contributions: the globally acclaimed Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, a structure flanked by huge steel fins. The museum houses 200 cars, including a Model T, various Cadillac coupes and a 1971 DeTomaso Pantera that belonged to Elvis Presley...
Advertising executive Cliff Einstein and his wife Mandy have amassed one of the country's top collections of contemporary art, including works by James Turrell and Nancy Rubins. Chairman of Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art, Einstein talks to Barbara Isenberg about collecting...
Your home is as much museum as living space, and you frequently have people coming to see your collection. Do you encourage that...