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Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast

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The Imposition of Control on the Museum

I can't help but read him as a historical he's the antecedent to Eli Broad. I wondered if it was his desire for a kind of museum purity while he was very much in the midst of this. In a sandbox with very powerful men, you know, on both sides the dealers are powerful and artists are powerful. He tried to impose his vision of the art world onto the museum is the same way you see it in particular shows the great cubism show.

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