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Chrysler Museum of Art Announces $2 Million Endowment for New Curator of Photography

The Chrysler Museum of Art has announced a transformative $2 million gift from longtime Museum supporter and former curator Brooks Johnson to establish an endowed Curator of Photography position. The…

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Featured Exhibit

Paula Chamlee: A Sense of Place

Paula Chamlee returned to college in the 1980s majoring in the visual arts to finish a degree she had begun in the 1960s in the performing arts. She earned a…

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Collecting Resources

The Insider's Guide to Buying Photographs

Besides historical and aesthetic considerations, most photography collectors ultimately will face the real economic issue of both buying and selling images.

Few of us merely inherit a collection and then pass…

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