One Fine Show: “Zurbarán” at the National Gallery in London
This artist looked life square in the face, and painted it in all its beauty and viscerality.
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Sébastien Léon’s Material Exploration
"I’m interested in imagining a different physical world, almost a parallel set of conditions where matter follows a slightly altered logic," the artist told Observer.
How the World’s Great Artist Foundations Stay Solvent
The Mapplethorpe Foundation earns a quarter of a million dollars annually from merchandising and licensing, and another $200,000-$250,000 per year in exhibition fees, as museums borrowing prints from the foundation pay $1,000 per image.
