More turnover in the auction market as Christie's former CEO Guillaume Cerutti "transitions" to President of the Pinault Collection, but will also continue to serve as Christie’s Chairman of the…
Read MoreBy Alex Novak
Vladimir Birgus was born in Frýdek-Místek, Czechoslovakia on May 5, 1954.
He completed his literary, theater and film studies at the School of Philosophy, Palacký University, Olomouc (1978,…
Read MoreThere has been a tremendous amount of discussion in the popular press lately about photography's relationship with reality. The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer with more than a decade…
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