In the early years of the 20th Century, art dealer Lord Duveen helped America’s wealthiest become important art collectors. Their collections form the basis of the country’s great museums. But “the most important legacy of their collaboration has been its toxic effect on the intellectual culture of art: it accelerated a divorce of connoisseurship from criticism. Duveen subsumed fine discrimination to the legitimatization of wealth, a function that, augmented by modern forensic technologies, it continues to perform.”