Wal-Mart Art
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=60904
Writer Rebecca Solnit inspects Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton's recent purchase of Kindred Spirits by Asher Durand for $35 million. Walton is the world's second richest woman and ninth richest person and plans to construct the Crystal Bridges art museum near Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. Solnit also looks at other relationships between ill-begotten wealth and private art collections. I found her article an interesting read. I particularly liked her analogy of museums as taxidermists!
posted by Dale Zimmer @ 2/18/2006 04:42:00 PM
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That's a beautiful painting. I think it was on the cover of one of my Norton anthologies...
As a side note, I adore the name Asher. If I ever have a son, that name is tops on my list.
Have you read Chaim Potok's My Name is Asher Lev? (It has the name Asher in it, that's how it relates...)
Yes, a very long time ago. I don't remember it too well--perhaps I should add it to my ever-growing list of things to read and re-read.
So many books, so little time...
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