The World's Best Photos of photowalks and shankargallery. Robber baron (industrialist) In social criticism and economic literature, robber baron became a derogatory term applied to wealthy and powerful 19th-century American businessmen that appeared in North American periodical literature as early as the August 1870 issue of The Atlantic Monthly[1] magazine. By the late 1800s, the term was typically applied to businessmen who used what were considered to be exploitative practices to amass their wealth.[2] These practices included exerting control over national resources, accruing high levels of government influence, paying extremely low wages, squashing competition by acquiring competitors in order to create monopolies and eventually raise prices, and schemes to sell stock at inflated prices[2] to unsuspecting investors in a manner which would eventually destroy the company for which the stock was issued and impoverish investors.[2] The term combines the sense of criminal ("robber") and illegitimate aristocracy (a baron is an illegitimate role in a republic).[3]
Flickriver Photoset August 7 2005 By Shankargallery - doocab.com. App Gallery. Shankar Gallery - Home Page. Www.shankar-gallery.com - Shankar Gallery - Home Page - as7. Www.shankar-gallery.com - Shankar Gallery - Home Page - as7. What Color Is That Gallery? The Spring Show As Trailblazer. The Spring Show at the Park Avenue Armory, which started today, is a new event in the art calendar.
This is its third edition, as fair organizers like to term their annual events. It is a mixed offering — mixed in the goods on offer (paintings, furniture, silver, jewelry, flags, artifacts, etc. etc.), mixed in quality, mixed in the geographical home of the dealers, and so on. At the opening preview reception last night, I found plenty of things to enjoy and admire, as well as some that were easy to bypass.
Art snobs who pass it up are missing something, and so are museum people. Since then, we’ve seen museums expand their use of colored walls — as I mentioned in my last post, the Brooklyn very successfully used melon walls for its current Sargent exhibition, and I’ve noticed marvelous shades of blue, olive, deep purple, gold, etc. etc. in many museums. What did I see last night? I took pictures, some posted here, but they don’t do the job as well as I’d have liked. Ain’t it grand?
Sphatic lapis buddha. Sphatic magnetic lapis. Sphatic sculpture.