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How to Start an Art Collection on a Modest Budget: Buying Emerging Artists, Prints and Editions Without Getting Burned
A collector's eye is built, not bought — and the first ten works cost less than the first one would if you waited.
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Art covers exhibitions, commissions and the artists whose vocabulary keeps turning up in collections. Coverage names movements, materials and editions, and separates genuine collaboration from a licensing deal with a signature attached. Written for readers who move between galleries and fashion with equal fluency.
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The Museum Argument: How the Costume Institute Put Fashion in the Canon
The Met's Costume Institute holds more than 33,000 garments and accessories, and its fifty-year project of exhibiting dress as art history changed how both museums and fashion houses understand the garment.
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The Potter Who Dresses the Country: Grayson Perry, Claire and the Argument of a Garment
Grayson Perry accepted the 2003 Turner Prize in a dress as his alter ego Claire, and has spent four decades making ceramics and tapestries that read British class through what people wear.
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The Grid and the Body: How Yves Saint Laurent Turned a Mondrian Painting Into a Dress
In August 1965 a Paris couture show sent out a handful of shift dresses built to hide their seams inside a painter's grid — and made a career-long argument about where fashion ends and art begins.
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Everything Must Go: Keith Haring's Pop Shop and the Original Art-Merch Experiment
Keith Haring opened the Pop Shop on Lafayette Street in April 1986 and sold his imagery as T-shirts and posters — the blueprint for every artist-fashion collaboration since.
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The Color Field Winter: What Rothko Taught the Minimalist Coat
Color-field painting — Mark Rothko's stacked rectangles and Barnett Newman's zips — changed how a single surface could hold attention, and monochrome dressing borrowed the lesson whole.