Sentences with phrase «connoisseurship now»

A response to the Jewish Museum shooting; Marina Abramović in trouble over nothing; connoisseurship now; Outsider Art; and Matisse at the cinema

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Known for a rigor that verges on medieval, Tefaf had climbed to its august position on vetting, a process of prior and on - site verification undertaken by its team of conservators and forensic scientists beginning with connoisseurship and involving techniques now being applied to contemporary art that are so advanced as to warrant a parenthesis.

Ann Philbin, who succeeded her in running the center in 1990 and is now director of the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, said of Ms. Beck in an email, «Amazingly, she would ask the most important museums all over the world to lend their precious rare old master drawings to this funky warehouse space in Lower Manhattan — and they would — because its reputation for innovation, connoisseurship and excellence preceded it.»