How to Buy Warhol, Degas and Renoir on the Cheap

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Click Here to Read:  How to Buy Warhol, Degas and Renoir on the Cheap One sign of the overheated art market is the growing appetite for minor works by major artists—But are all these etchings and doodles authentic?  By Ellen Gamerman in The Wall Street Journal on April 11, 2014.

Demand is on the rise for lower-priced works from the art world’s biggest names, from Pierre-Auguste Renoir to Pablo Picasso. A color etching by Joan Miró, pictured, sold for $4,250 last year. Swann Auction Galleries

The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem

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Click Here to Read:   The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye.  Jeremy Dauber’s biography looks at how Fiddler on the Roof came to represent the ultimate Americanisation of Jewish culture,  Reviewed by J. Hoberman on the Guardian website on April 11, 2014,

Henry Goodman as Tevye at the Savoy theatre in 2007. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian