from The Getty Research Institute
The Business of Art: Evidence from the Art Market
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This is a ground-breaking show, in which art and its history is explicated, not by visual works, but by actual documentary evidence - much like in an archives. Two very strong reviews in the Los Angeles Times and on the Artful Manager weblog. I look forward to the day when an entire exhibition is pulled together which attempt an understanding of how conservation decisions and restoration attempts influence the course of art history. But that is, of course, another story.