London art dealer Ivor Braka recalls a breakfast at Les Deux Magots in Paris, where Joe consumed 14 croissants.

FORBES: The Art of the Deal

When the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) acquired Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1937 it was still a largely unknown work, although Picasso had eventually sold it to a collector in 1924.

BBC: Too famous to see?

Where, except New York, would a curator put a metro station in a museum of modern art, and what restaurant could be more self-consciously Parisian than Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles in Manhattan?

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