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The task of coordinating our report on this stage of the AIDS epidemic fell to assistant managing editor Christopher Porterfield, who relished having a wider canvas than weekly coverage usually affords. "We could balance out many points of view," he says. "It's a volatile time. This is a breakthrough...
What if they gave an auction and nobody bid? When Vincent Van Gogh's Jardin a Auvers went on the block at Paris' posh George V Hotel, auctioneer Jacques Tajan brought the gavel down on a supposed bid of $6.4 million. After the sale, however, Tajan admitted he had merely...
Meanwhile, despite the assurances of the world's top Van Gogh experts, doubts about the painting's authenticity began to circulate among an international coterie of art enthusiasts. Stylistically, says Jean-Marie Tasset, art critic for the French daily Figaro, the serene canvas is "atypical" of the frenetic paintings made...
And yet the picture that launched his career came to this then unknown, 24-year-old Southerner in a dream. One night in 1954, by his own account, Johns dreamed of painting a large American flag, and the next morning he got up and began to do so. He would...
Harvard will canvas alumni and legal professionals across the country to find prospective applicants, as well as consulting with University personnel, President Neil L. Rudenstine said in an interview last month.