October 2021

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Have your butler draw the bathtub with spa-elixir salt. With a side-ready glass of bedroom red © wine. Get in! The butler is reading from your new favorite art book titled “Duveen: The Intimate Portrait of a Fabulous Art Dealer,” by S.N. Behrman. This book describes its subject, Joseph Duveen, as the most spectacular art dealer of all time. To that, I would add he was also a canny financier, fixer, oracle, liar, and social engineer — although perhaps those qualities are all contained within the author’s original declaration. If you like biographies of geniuses told in the form of zany anecdotes, this is the volume for you.© (re: NY. Times)

Note: ART TERM: PERFORMANCE artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted.