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Art patronage

The Worship of Art

by Tom Wolfe,

Notes on the new god

Money and art

by Paul Theroux,

The paradox of patronage

The counterfeit muse

by Harper’s Staff,

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Art by Richard Merkin,

The ministry of culture

by Michael Macdonald Mooney,

Buying the just and beautiful society

Convertible bandwagon

by Harper’s Staff,

Suitable for framing

by Russell Lynes,

Rockefeller, Rivera, and art

by Walter Pach,

Our musical adolescence

by Daniel Gregory Mason,

The business of giving away money

by Edwin R. (Edwin Rogers) Embree,

The problem facing the American foundations

The creative spirit and the American public

by Rollo Walter Brown,

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