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...Belles Heures de Notre-Dame (circa 1410-12) is at Paris' Bibliothèque National and is too fragile to travel, and the brothers' most famous work, Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (circa 1411-16), is at the Musée Condé in Chantilly, near Paris; the museum is bound by contract not to lend it out. But the Valkhof show makes up for these missing pieces in a creative way: it features an animation of two scenes, February and April, from Les Très Riches Heures. The miniatures have been digitally redrawn...
Another day, another unmasked East German spy. That ho-hum attitude greeted news that Bernd Runge, the head of U.S. magazine publisher Condé Nast's German business, worked for the hated Stasi secret police as a young East German journalist in the 1980s. Last week two German magazines, Focus and Der Spiegel, revealed that Runge, now 43, informed on fellow students and his own family, and spied on Western journalists. What's fascinating is that Germans barely raised an eyebrow, and Runge's American boss said his past has "no relevance." It's a far cry from the 1990s...
...magazines, few are recalled as wistfully by readers as Vanity Fair, the raffish, snooty cultural monthly that blossomed in the optimism of 1914 and withered in the middle of the Depression in 1936. Vanity Fair never reached more than 99,000 buyers, and it reportedly lost money for Publisher Condé Nast (1873-1942) in all save one of its 22 years. But it featured writing by Thomas Wolfe, T.S. Eliot, Dorothy Parker and P.G. Wodehouse and photographs by Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz. In an indulgent appraisal in 1960, Cleveland Amory contended that Vanity Fair had been "America...
...memory was particularly strong at the Condé Nast company; it is the nation's sixth largest magazine group (1982 advertising revenues: $180 million), and has been a leader in an industry-wide trend toward seeking the affluent, educated readers whom advertisers covet. Condé Nast is noted primarily for magazines about fashion and fitness (Vogue, Gentlemen's Quarterly, Self), but company executives believed that a cultural magazine could have even greater appeal "upscale" and invested as much as $15 million to develop the idea. Next week 732,000 copies of the first Vanity Fair in 47 years...
...Condé Nast officials insisted when announcing the revival: "You will not find a more handsome, readable magazine in America." That boast prompted high, perhaps unreachable, expectations. The first issue is certainly lavish (290 glossy pages) and diverse. To accompany an entire short novel by Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, the magazine bought rights to a dozen new paintings and drawings from celebrated fellow Colombian Fernando Botero. There are lively, offbeat articles: Gore Vidal reporting from the Gobi Desert, Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould speculating on why .400 hitters have disappeared...