Now, that corporation is building a new 3, 000-room resort, office and retail complex called City Center and piloting a number of innovative "green" features, including state-of-the-art low-level flush toilets.
There was, however, a trickledown effect on taste which created a market for inferior art from the Low Countries.
Perhaps more important, the four- and five-figure prices realized by most of these pieces, bona fide rarities of cosmic provenance, were astronomically low by the standards of contemporary art.
Should this idea catch on, it could be a stress-free, low-cost introduction into the art world for a younger generation who is interested in art, but might not yet have the financial means to do so normally.
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Art, fashion, high, low: Everything is game, worthy of a museum or gallery wall.
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Just beyond his tattered wood desk, a vintage Miami cruiser hangs from one of his patent-pending pedal hooks - the perfectly rusted patina on the low-riding frame is the closest thing to art on the walls.
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But Sotheby's officials said they were delighted with the results sales at the first major fine art auction of the season and that keeping low estimates had paid off.
While billionaire was trying to keep this purchase in the down low, at least according to the Post, his love of art is a well known and has been covered extensively.
The art marketplace has a vested interest in overturning Hughes's low opinion of Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.
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The refurbished venue, which combines eastern and western architectural elements including an Art Deco facade and a Chinese-style roof, lies amid low-rise tenement buildings, vibrant markets and local shops.
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Unlike the low trading costs for a stock index fund, the adjusted returns of an art index would be meaningfully lower in an art index if these costs were accounted for.
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The most beautiful, subdued and quiet section is the Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall, a low-lit space with blackened vitrines in which objects are brilliantly lighted, as in an art museum: case after case of minerals you have heard of (gold, quartz and tourmaline), and others, even more dazzling, that you probably have not (rhodochrosite).
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Here street art is also in abundance, scrawled on walls and lovingly adorning the facades of the hallmark low-storey residences.
Illuminated manuscripts provided the ideal portable art form for a peripatetic court that moved regularly from its base in Dijon up through the Low Countries it had absorbed by marriage and conquest in the late 14th century.
After years of lying low, she starred in a popular exhibition "Superheroes: Fantasy and Fashion" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York earlier this year.
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