This Week



COVER STORY
Art and Business
Kurt Andersen and newspaper publisher, investor, and sculptor Arthur Carter talk about the business of art.

Guarneri del GesuViolin Investment
Violinist Robert McDuffie's innovative plan to purchase a multi-million dollar Guarneri violin. Produced by Donna Gallers. Photo courtesy of Machold Rare Violins in New York.
Go to McDuffie's bio
Go to Machold's website
Go to the New York Times article

Art DealersArt of the Deal
Peter Boris represents the painter Chuck Close, and they talk about the delicate relationship between dealer, artist, and customer.
Go to Art Dealers Association website
Go to PaceWildenstein gallery's website

Blue Man Group
What happens when the scrappy act of off-broadway performance artists grows into a national corporation with over 400 employees.
Go to the Blue Man Group website
Go to Intel's website

Office Gallery
A sound portrait of a covert art show amidst the cubicles and conference rooms of a San Francisco life insurance office. Produced by Raquel Dillon.

SPECIAL GUEST
Arthur CarterArthur Carter
Arthur Carter is the publisher of the New York Observer and the Litchfield County Times. A trained classical musician and former investment banker, he is an avid collector of 20th century art and since the mid-1990s has been creating large abstract bronze and steel sculptures..
Go to the New York Observer
Go to Carter's sculpture at Salander-O'Reilly Gallery







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Commentary
Not everyone can be an auteur.

Design for the Real World
Acela. A look at Amtrak's sleek new train. Produced by Susan Scheuer.

Acela
Go to Acela's website

Antiquities in Peril
Kurt talks with arts journalist Melik Kaylan about the Taliban's order to destroy all statues in Afghanistan.



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