🎭 Culture May 15, 2026 · Aaron Short

Inside TEFAF New York’s Annual Wealth Pageant

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Inside TEFAF New York’s Annual Wealth Pageant
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How do the wealthy choose their art these days?Do they adorn their walls with the masterworks of long-dead modernists and Pop Art icons that will only increase in value as the years unfurl? Or do they fill their townhouses with glossy hardwood tables, chic lighting fixtures, and dense statement sculptures that wow guests and can be used as a blunt instrument in an emergency?The answer is, perhaps, all of the above. There was plenty to dazzle the patrons of the Nouveau Gilded Age at The European

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