When you’re not as rich as you’d like and not as powerful as you’d think, you plaster gold trinkets all over your Oval Office. When you’re as rich as millions of people combined and as powerful as most democratically elected heads of state, you plaster your munificence all over public amenities. Rockefeller did it, Carnegie did it, even Bernard Arnault did it. You can barely recognize LV’s…

The latest figure is up 17 percent from the $7.7 billion reported in 2018, and nearly triple the $3.5 billion reported in 2011.

The best Calder publications, from a comprehensive two-volume biography to a children’s book about his moveable circus—selected by the curators Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer

a tightly curated presentation that moves across generations, placing modern masters alongside leading contemporary voices

The cloud portion of _Mountains and Clouds_ was removed from the Hart Senate Office Building in 2016.