Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 87

Excerpt from Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 87: May, 1987 Art World? Brown art professor Rich ard Fishman opened the discussion, explaining that the art world, which used to be centered in Paris in the nineteenth and early twentieth centu ries, shifted to New York City following World War 11. Has it shifted again, this time to Los Angeles? The first title of this symposium was going to be: 'has the Art World Finally Decentralized, Or Is New York Still lt.' Are we really witnessing a cultural shift? If it is a cultural shift, it has been a quick one. As Henry Hopkins, director of the Frederick R. Weisman Collection in Los Angeles, told the audience, The Los Angeles art collection started from ground zero a mere thirty or forty years ago. Veteran observers of the art scene here will tell you that fully 90 percent of what one sees at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, the Huntington, the Museum of Contemporary Art, has been acquired in the last thirty years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.