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Australian Aboriginal art on Madison Avenue? Thank Steve Martin, its surprising new champion
It is late summer 2015: comedian Steve Martin, who has just celebrated his 70th birthday, is at home on Manhattan’s Upper West Side reading the fine arts section of The New York Times. Besides his careers in comedy, acting, writing and banjo-playing, Martin is known for being a serious art lover.In the apartment he shares with his wife, Anne Stringfield, there are paintings by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and David Hockney, and an array of major American moderns, including Edward Hopper. But…