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      Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm

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    • Every purchase in our stores directly support the collections and exhibitions of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums.

    • Every purchase in our stores directly support the collections and exhibitions of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums.

    • Every purchase in our stores directly support the collections and exhibitions of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums.

    • Every purchase in our stores directly support the collections and exhibitions of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums.

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Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art

Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm

Every purchase in our stores directly support the collections and exhibitions of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums.

Necklaces & Pendants

Earrings

Every purchase in our stores directly support the collections and exhibitions of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums.

Every purchase in our stores directly support the collections and exhibitions of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums.

Every purchase in our stores directly support the collections and exhibitions of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums.

Every purchase in our stores directly support the collections and exhibitions of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums.

Every purchase in our stores directly support the collections and exhibitions of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums.

Every purchase in our stores directly support the collections and exhibitions of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums.

Authority and Freedom

From one of our most widely admired art critics comes a bold and timely manifesto reaffirming the independence of all the arts—musical, literary, and visual—and their unique and unparalleled power to excite, disturb, and inspire us.

As people look to the arts to promote a particular ideology, whether radical, liberal, or conservative, Jed Perl argues that the arts have their own laws and logic, which transcend the controversies of any one moment. “Art’s relevance,” he writes, “has everything to do with what many regard as its irrelevance.” Authority and Freedom will find readers from college classrooms to foundation board meetings—wherever the arts are confronting social, political, and economic ferment and heated debates about political correctness and cancel culture. Hardcover, 176 pages.

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