Tag: Pursuit of Refinement
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Whoever Dies with the Most Toys Wins, Part II
I spoke with a Gibbes employee who was appalled by the exhibit and said that when schools came through the kids were thinking that this was a pretty strange thing: to be honoring wealthy men like Miles Brauton, who could pay Sir Joshua Reynolds to paint his portrait because he was “the largest importer of…
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In Pursuit of Refinement at the Gibbes
Can’t you faintly hear him snickering at the Americans leaving his shores with their chachkas? There may not be much of the French Revolution in French porcelain figures, but an art retrospective shouldn’t be as ignorant.
Kristen L. Rhodes 