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William Van Meter

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Inside ‘Prince of Prints’ Jordan Schnitzer’s Sprawling Collection

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By William Van Meter
| Art Market Minute
“When I first walked in—my God—I just felt, what Frankenstein monster have I created here?” said the Portland, Oregon-based collector and philanthropist Jordan Schnitzer. “It’s still overwhelming.” It was mid-February and Schnitzer was giving a tour of his collection, which, frankly, was gobsmacking. when left on my own to wander, it provoked spontaneous laughter—it felt almost unreal, almost farcical in its scale: an entire 50,000-square-foot warehouse filled with art.
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How Lillian Bassman Pushed Fashion Photography to the Edge of Abstraction

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By William Van Meter
| Art Market Minute
It was a straightforward fashion magazine assignment: shoot a new season’s coat and dress. After Lillian Bassman submitted her photographs to Harper’s Bazaar, the famed art director Alexey Brodovitch sent his protégée a note: “This is dangerous.” Another colleague went further, calling the images “sheer madness.” Bassman’s photographs, in fact, looked more like illustrations.
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Paige Powell Didn’t Just Document Warhol’s Inner Circle. She Shaped It, Too

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By William Van Meter
| Art Market Minute
It wasn’t Paige Powell’s intention to become the unofficial documentarian of the 1980s New York art scene, but she was embedded in it. Powell worked in ad sales at Interview magazine and would become its associate publisher. She was one of founder Andy Warhol’s closest confidantes during the final years of his life. “I just took photographs, but I wasn’t obsessed,” she said. “It was Andy who encouraged me. I was in my environment with all these different artists. They were just my friends.
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