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“... of thirty years of European avant-garde art. At the end of his long biography of Guggenheim, Anton Gill, whose years of research have not deepened his regard for his subject, wonders whether she was in the same league as Walter Arensberg or the Cone sisters or other collectors who devoted more years of their life to buying paintings, and perhaps ...”

“... showed that a small, transparent animal called amphioxus had a dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal gill slits and a notochord (a stiff rod of cartilage that runs the length of the animal above the nerve cord) – unmistakably vertebrate features. He went on to tell the Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg that the tunicates (sea-squirts), an unprepossessing ...”