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The collection of drawings Teyler's Museum has a widely known international reputation. This book is part of a series in which previously books were published on Italian drawings of the 15th and 16th century, and on Dutch drawings dating from 1575-1630 and 1740-1800. This book describes the 257 (...)

From the 17th through the 19th century, artists in Kyoto and Edo (now Tokyo) captured the metropolitan amusements of the floating world (ukiyo in Japanese) through depictions of subjects such as the beautiful women of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters and performers of the kabuki theater. In contrast (...)

To say that the art market is on shaky ground may be the understatement of the year. As one dealer told me this past spring, in unequivocal terms: The market's shit. Anyone who tells you different is lying. Dealers and advisers across the board have confirmed as much (some of them adding that its (...)