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A Tale Of Two Egos

At the height of their contest for Cezanne’s mantle as the leader of the French avant-garde, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso agreed to swap pictures. Over the previous two years, Paris’ leading provocateur Matisse had steadily ceded ground to the newcomer Picasso, until the fall of 1907, when the two men were deadlocked. Matisse selected […]

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High Gloss

The Times Square tower where Conde Nast pumps out titles like The New Yorker and Vogue is a river away from Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where Jennifer Bleyer lives. It’s a boundary that Bleyer is making very clear. The third issue of Heeb, Bleyer’s year-old magazine, hits the streets later this month with a striking disclaimer: […]

I’ll Be Your Mirror

The lineup for New York’s newest blockbuster art exhibition begins this week as lucky ticket holders for "Matisse Picasso" make their way to the Museum of Modern Art’s temporary digs in Long Island City. The retrospective exhibition promises to reward long waits in chilly winds with works that shaped modern art and a thrilling tale […]

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