In recent months the saga of the Sassoon family has been a hot topic. It was chronicled onscreen in Benediction, a biopic directed by Terence Davies that focuses on the tormented, glamorous life of First World Warera poet Siegfried Sassoon, and in print in The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire, by historian (and descendant) Joseph Sassoon, which charts the rise and fall of the family's empire, across three continents and two centuries.
Now a major museum exhibition, "The Sassoons, is opening March 3 at the Jewish Museum in New York. It presents perhaps the most vivid picture yet of the family, through more than 120 superlative works of art they commissioned or collected.
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THE MASTER BUILDER
For the collector and philanthropist Amalia Amoedo, living with art and supporting the people who make it isn't just a choice it's a tradition. Is it any wonder she's known as Latin America's Peggy Guggenheim?
The ROTHSCHILD and the SNOWSTORM
Four decades after Jeannette May's remains were found on an Italian mountainside, the authorities have reopened the investigation into who or what-killed the former Lady de Rothschild.Was it a kidnapping? A mafia hit? Or have the rumors been wrong all along?
The WIZARD of MADISON
Suit up before stepping inside Giorgio Armani's new uptown Oz.
WHERE THE WILDLY EXPENSIVE THINGS ARE
In a small city in the Dutch hinterlands, sharp-elbowed dealers hunt the biggest game of all: billionaire collectors voracious for treasures from the last art fair that truly matters.
READ THE FINE PRINT
Nestled among the winding, narrow streets of Berkeley, California, which curve past a pastiche of architectural styles, including the material opulence of the spare modern mansions belonging to the tech elite, Susan Filter and Peter Koch's home stands apart.
Begin Here
Take a page from Sir Joseph Duveen, the man who taught America how to collect.
NOW YOU SEE HER
Bertha Russell would be so disappointed. When Carrie Coon, who plays the calculating social climber on The Gilded Age, sits down at the Regency Bar & Grill, just a few blocks and about 140 years from the fictional mansion where her character resides, it's the tail end of the restaurant's infamous power breakfast—a crucial error in timing for anyone hoping to rub elbows with New York City's ruling class.
Give Me Liberty!
Creative freedom, it turns out, is a very wise investment.
How Young Is Too Young to Start an Art Collection?
It will take more than just a trust fund to get them to sell you that painting.
Look Where You're Going
How many teenagers do you know who spend their free time doing this?
