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Collecting art – and artists

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The Age of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone by Mary Gabriel is a lush portrait of the burgeoning world of modern art, especially in Paris, in the early 20th century.  If you love Paris, if you love Matisse, Degas, Picasso, Cezanne and other giants of the time,  and if you have always …

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Summer Olympics 2024 – be glad we didn’t win

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Let's all be grateful that Boston's bids for the Olympics have all failed. In the 1990's, a self-appointed group, originally called The Boston Olympic Organizing Committee, conducted feasibility studies and mounted bids to host the 2000 Olympics, then the 2004 games and finally the 2008 spectacular. At the time my husband was leading an International …

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