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How New York Stole the Art World From Paris — and Nobody Saw It Coming

For three hundred years, if you wanted to understand what painting meant, you went to Paris. Then, sometime around 1950, you didn’t anymore. The center of the art world had shifted — quietly, unexpectedly, and permanently — to a cluster of cold-water lofts in lower Manhattan. Photo: Shutterstock The City That Was Never Supposed to …

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