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The Quiet Case for Collecting Art Invitations Walk into any serious ephemera collector’s home and you’ll eventually find a shoebox, a flat file, or a slim archival portfolio filled with printed invitations to gallery openings and museum exhibitions. To the uninitiated, these look like the kind of thing you’d toss without a second thought — a folded cardstock announcement that did its job the moment the date passed. But to a growing number of collectors, art historians, and archivists, printed exhibition invitations are among the most undervalued categories of collectible ephemera in the art world. What Exactly Is an “Art...