Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American museums had to subsist on Government money like the Louvre or the National Gallery in London, all would shrink, and many of the best would never have got started. Names like Whitney, Guggenheim, Phillips, Freer and Frick attest to the role played by the private collector in creating the public institution. Today more than ever the one-person museum, named for the man or woman who assembled it and put it in its own building, is a ruling fantasy of the ambitious collector. Why settle for your name on a plaque in the Met when for a few extra...
...time is some 60 years ago. The place is equally distant, a primitive part of Provence. Why do the machinations of these villains grip us so vividly? Jean is an idealistic tax collector who leaves the city to live close to nature. Why does his fate move us so deeply? Above all, by what means does this cruel tale of victimization -- there is rarely a film that so relentlessly documents the meanness of the human spirit -- manage to release in us, of all ironies, such a spirit of joyous welcome...
...second highest price paid for a painting at an auction. The 29-in. by 36-in. Bridge, painted in 1888 when Van Gogh lived in Arles, was sold by the family of New York Banker Siegfried Kramarsky, who bought the painting in 1932. The buyer: an anonymous European collector who bid by telephone...
...avid collector of rare birds, but he himself was perhaps the rarest bird of all: a seasoned, moderate Lebanese politician of nearly 40 years' experience who was trusted by most of his country's warring factions. By the time he was assassinated last week, in the explosion of a bomb aboard his military helicopter, Rashid Karami, 65, had served ten times as Lebanon's Prime Minister. The country's Maronite Christian President Amin Gemayel -- whose brother Bashir had been killed by a bomb in 1982 -- quickly named another Sunni Muslim, Selim Hoss, as acting Prime Minister. Suspects in the murder...
...reproduced and exhibited for several years without evoking any special interest; that far from knowing nothing of them, Betsy Wyeth -- whose astute managerial sense has had much to do with her husband's success over the years -- owned quite a few; that there was no love affair; that the collector was a newsletter publisher named Leonard E.B. Andrews, who planned to reap ^ vast profits from selling reproductions of Helga's pale and sturdy torso; and that the whole thing had been cooked up among him, the Wyeths and the editors of Art & Antiques, a sort of cultural airline magazine mainly...