Among the six ivories in the group is a pair of saltcellars carved with images of starfish, birds and coiled snakes that were created by late 15th-century Sapi artists, the forebears of today's Bulom and Temne peoples in Sierra Leone.
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If he can work the technical magic a second time, fans will be able to get their hands on music collections from even the most obscure of artists who have little chance of getting distributed today all courtesy of the Internet.
The contemporary arena provided collectors with extraordinary choices, including a plethora of paintings by today's ''it'' artists, a cabal of young Chinese painters including Liu Ye, Yue Minjun and Chen Zhen.
An older generation of women artists sees a much different art market today than the one they grew up with.
The producer and multi-instrumentalist Danger Mouse and Mark Linkous (also known as Sparklehorse) are two of the most inspired and imaginative artists making music today.
It seems almost like a trend today for artists to hide behind a wall of reverb and distortion they have carefully constructed, but The Pains of Being Pure at Heart has found another way.
More than ever, it seems, the digital artists who produce today's computer-generated blockbusters are bent on recreating a vision of reality that is likewise more vital and compelling than everyday life.
Today, Rightsflow boasts a clientele of 16, 000 labels, distributors, artists, and music services (about a third the number represented by HFA) and a database of 30 million songs for which it issues mechanical licenses.
Corporate sponsors may be trying to burnish their companies' reputations (why else so free with shareholders' money?), but it's not as though today's patrons of the arts expect the florid lickspittlery once lavished on those who provided artists their livings.
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