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- From: kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan)
- Subject: Re: need: books on Henri Matisse (was Re: Great gift books for me!)
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 03:57:34 GMT
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- Francis Muir writes
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- >Keith Morgan writes:
- >
- > By the way Fiona, have you got tickets for MOMA already? I hear
- > they're being scalped at horrendous prices due to the exhibit's
- > popularity.
- >
- >I thought the scalping prices were rather reasonable. Less than $50.
- >Now there are few places in New York where you can get a good dinner for
- >that price, so I'd say go; you'll never get another chance. MOMA should
- >have upped the price, of course.
-
- Well $50 is certainly a LOT less than the rumors I had heard.
- Apparently MOMA sets aside a number of tickets for same day purchase,
- 2 per person, and when people begin lining up in the morning the
- scalpers descend offering (as I've heard) up to $200 for an extra
- ticket.
-
- >Oh yes. Books on Matisse. Forget it. Go and look at the pictures. Take
- >a dam' good look and then, maybe, peek at the books in a year or two.
-
- I agree, more or less, the catalogue (Elderfield's) is very
- expensive at $75 and seeing the art is the important thing. Still, as
- I admitted earlier I know zip about art and art history anyway.
-
- Keith
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- --
-
- Keith Morgan kamorgan@athena.mit.edu
- In the end nothing could be said of his work except that it was
- preposterous and true and totally unacceptable. Edward Whittemore
-