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name: Paul Werner
about: Paul Werner's third volume on museums is devoted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its bizarre "Free admission" policy. The book is called Jump Jim Corot. Cash, class and Culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Paul is equally at home in Europe and in New York: he is fluent in French and English, and spends part of each year in Vienna. He is the editor of WOID: a journal of visual language and the publisher of the Orange Press. His writings on museums under capitalism include a number of articles in French and English, as well as several previous books: Museum, Inc. Inside the Global Art World (which has been translated into French and Italian)and The Red Museum: Art, economics and the end of capital. Paul holds a PhD in Art Hist Paul Werner's third volume on museums is devoted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its bizarre "Free admission" policy. The book is called Jump Jim Corot. Cash, class and Culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Paul is equally at home in Europe and in New York: he is fluent in French and English, and spends part of each year in Vienna. He is the editor of WOID: a journal of visual language and the publisher of the Orange Press. His writings on museums under capitalism include a number of articles in French and English, as well as several previous books: Museum, Inc. Inside the Global Art World (which has been translated into French and Italian)and The Red Museum: Art, economics and the end of capital. Paul holds a PhD in Art History and a DSFS (Danger to the Security of the French State), going back to his involvement in May, 1968. He has also published a number of pamphlets on medieval art techniques. ...more