But their art suffers from severe limits as a defense against the mad, random violence that surrounds them.
They can learn the art of pressure from their opponents on this.
These welcoming accommodations have honed the art of transporting people from their distracted lives over many centuries--we cover one that opened its doors in the year 1490--and they're getting pretty good at it.
But since the collapse of the Soviet Union the Russians have acknowledged that thousands of works of art taken from Germany are in their possession.
Most of their belongings from Los Angeles, expensive furniture and art accumulated over the years, remain in storage.
He objects to monolithic buildings like New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which separate their collections from the hubbub of the street with vast staircases and thick stone walls.
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Do they belong with other contemporary art or with works from the land of their birth?
Designed as entertainment for their friends, these larky experiments commanded the same respect from the art market then that they do now: almost none.
Frahm grew up in a family who used to own an art foundation in Copenhagen, where they would show pieces from their own collection.
Buyers can discover new art and potentially build a whole collection from the comfort of their own homes, not the occasionally intimidating setting of a gallery.
But if that is to happen, many more of the entrepreneurs who are changing the rules of everything from computers to high finance will have to start applying their minds to the art of giving as well.
But as the great works of American art, from AbEx to Minimalism and Pop, begin to show their signs of age, conservators are playing an ever more important role to collectors.
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It is a bizarre occasion, a million miles and over a century away from Manet's time, when Monet and Van Gogh were penniless and their art rejected, and the great Cezanne worked in glorious isolation.
Sarah Lucas's sculptures may be tumble drier lint inside stockings, but their fleshy shapes on plinths draw to mind a whole tradition of art from Lucien Freud to Henry Moore.
London (CNN) -- A Pablo Picasso painting given to the Greek people in recognition of their resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II has been stolen from the National Art Gallery in Athens.
Notwithstanding their distaste for some of the art, they decided to save the artists from eviction and give them some creative leeway.
But the cafe also has a modern aesthetic, and attracts a college-aged crowd with experimental jazz records pumping from the speakers, live performances, art exhibitions and record parties, where people bring their own vinyl collection and discuss music.
Students spend a year building fundamentals like identifying upper- and lowercase letters and their sounds, recognizing numbers from 0 to 20, and learning physical education, music and art.
And The New Elite will be more than hopping on their private jets to move from castle to castle to yacht, pushing up the prices of art and trying to emulate the Roman Emperors, the 18th century French nobility or the Russian Tsars.
Evelyn, a hotel designer with degrees in fine art and architecture from California College of Arts and Crafts, comes along to scout additions to their collection.
Sterling and Francine Clark turned down an offer from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1946 when they were looking for a home for their art collection, setting their sights instead on Williamstown.
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National experts from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia will present the state-of-the-art for their country.
The country's best chefs come to Istanbul to perfect their art, and you will be able to order a better executed Italian pasta or fiery Thai curry from here.
It may be their budget offering (apart from a few river-facing rooms, it has shared bathrooms), but the art direction is no less obsessive, down to the potted palms in the lobby and a clanky old lift.
When the aspiring graduates of those academies went to Italy to advance their knowledge through first-hand encounters with revered works of art, they were also expected to work from local models and record, on the spot, Roman ruins, picturesque towns and the Italian landscape.
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If it all sounds too much, Mrs Kramlich points out that living with media art is really no different from living with fixed-image art. (The couple have works by Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys in their mock-Tudor San Francisco home.) The difference, she adds with an eye to California's electricity troubles, is that you have an on-off switch and when the images vanish, the house is an artwork of its own.
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