The exhibit lingers on these winged messengers and traces their rise to art superstar status.

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Qatar just shed its art rookie status for good.

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Bailey is an artist whose work endures even as works of 'status art' by the 'it' artist of the moment come and go.

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During the robber-baron years, when wealthy industrialists and newly minted tycoons avidly acquired Old Master art as signs of status, Americans' appetite for Rembrandts was so keen that attributions were often extremely optimistic.

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He points to a series of significant infrastructure projects, such as the Nottingham tram and the Nottingham Contemporary art gallery, to defend the status quo.

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Griffith remembers attending an art show and having to defend their status.

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He's expanding, or complicating, the definition of "national" art by insisting not on America's exceptional status but on its "transnational" relations to other countries.

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Shaw, head of Impressionist and Modern Art at the auction house, said the picture's status as a high-profile target for thieves had only boosted its popularity.

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These eight musicians play modern music that demonstrates jazz's status as a living, ever-changing, ever-developing art.

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In the late 19th century, Impressionist painters challenged the status quo by creating pieces void of historical significance or realism, emphasizing that art need not be practical.

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