Mr Quinn, with the help of the Wellcome Foundation, turned the material into a work of art.

ECONOMIST: The face of portraiture: Making a splash | The

He saw these drawings as documentary and reference material, not as works of art.

WSJ: Ancient Modernism | 'Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture' | Vitra Design Museum, Germany | By Colin Amery

Even these fine volumes, though, are overshadowed by the collection's 20th-century material, in particular the art books that grew out of Mr Gillet's friendship with Jean Hugues, a bookseller and gallery owner from Provence who knew many of the Surrealist poets and painters, and who opened a bookshop in the rue Jacob in Paris in 1952.

ECONOMIST: French book collecting

South African Ndebele art uses beads as an essential material for the adornment of aprons, clothing and textiles.

FORBES: Fifth Anniversary

The real winners of the global economy have turned out to be not the creative types or the data junkies, but the material boys: countries, states and companies that have perfected the art of physical production in agriculture, energy and, remarkably, manufacturing.

FORBES: The Real Winners Of The Global Economy: The Material Boys

The title of his first exhibition devoted to this material, "Statuary in Wood by African Savages: The Root of Modern Art" (1914) captures both the innovation and the contradictions of this debut.

WSJ: Americans' African Inspiration | African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde | Metropolitan Museum of Art | By Michael FitzGerald

The material, which was loaded on a schooner sailing vessel, will be sculpted into a piece of art called Nowhere Island.

BBC: Nowhere Island Olympic art team head home

On Tuesday, the rare material will finally be released on "Bill Evans Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate" (Resonance) a two-CD set that rivals Evans's revered Village Vanguard recordings for Riverside in June '61.

WSJ: A Legendary Bill Evans Session Comes to Light