Artists have long gotten away with murder, sometimes literally. After Benvenuto Cellini killed his rival, the goldsmith Pompeo de Capitaneis, in 1534, Pope Paul III—a Cellini…
Last Friday, Paul Allen—art collector, Microsoft co-founder, venture capitalist, philanthropist, owner of several sports teams (and a Frank Gehry-designed Jimi Hendrix museum), and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Idea-Man-Memoir-Cofounder-Microsoft/dp/B00D1G83P4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"…