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Nicholas Fox Weber

NICHOLAS FOX WEBER is Executive Director of the Albers Foundation

Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

By Nicholas Fox Weber

It was a dinner party in Paris, but everyone was American. All the other guests were “people of means,” substantially, and connected to the art world. They were collectors and lawyers and money people. None of them made art, but all of them put it on a pedestal.

Ani and Josef Albers, Black Mountain College, 1949. Photo: Ted Dreier. Courtesy of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
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MARCH 2023

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