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Many of the objects found around the palace documented the paranoia and the prodigality of the Marcos regime. Some of the paintings hanging from the walls had been appropriated at will by the Marcoses from the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. Scrapbooks contained photographs of properties in New York City and London, presumably belonging to the royal couple. Bea Zobel, an art collector who led volunteers in sorting through the Marcoses' possessions, noted that Imelda may have spent as much as several million dollars on jewels and antiques in a single day. Given her husband's official salary...
...opening the doors to Malacaņang Palace last week, President Corazon Aquino was hoping to close the doors, symbolically, on an era of covert monarchy. True to her campaign promise, the new leader turned the Marcos mansion into the People's Park, a public museum. Faithful so far to another promise, the former housewife showed every sign of for-swearing the designer life-style of her predecessors. She still operates out of a guesthouse next to the Spanish-style palace and commutes to work from her modest suburban home...
...Moscow, Brelis discovered the genesis of Horowitz's remarkably wide intellectual interests. Visiting the Scriabin Museum, the master pianist recalled that his parents had been advised by Scriabin to make sure that their son "knows art and literature, history and philosophy. To be a great artist he must know more than music." Then he said to Brelis, "Without a broad knowledge, I should never have known the clear thoughts and feelings I experience playing the piano...
...review of the Alex Katz show at the Whitney Museum in New York City [ART, April 14], Robert Hughes has let the art public know they have been duped. The Whitney retrospective is a further sign that in art, as in other forms of American life, we continue to pay homage to the mediocre. Glenn M. Corey Troy, Mich...
Within hours after the agreement was signed Nov. 21, American impresarios and museum directors were lining up for their share of cultural caviar. Robert Fitzpatrick, who is arranging Los Angeles' 1987 Arts Festival--which will be much like the one he set up for the 1984 Olympics--was already in Moscow. "I wanted to be the first in the door," he says. Fitzpatrick, whose taste runs to artistic frontiers, immediately placed a bid for the innovative Rustaveli Theater from the Georgian city of Tbilisi. "It's been a generation or two since we've seen any Soviet theater in this...