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...collectors have been courted more assiduously than Walter Annenberg, 83, the former chairman of Triangle Publications and Richard Nixon's onetime ambassador to Britain. Over the years, Annenberg had assembled a choice group of some 50 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, for which -- only a year ago, at the peak of the now badly deflated art market -- he turned down an offer of $1 billion from a Japanese syndicate...
Over the past year or so, Annenberg's paintings went on tour to a number of U.S. museums that hoped to get them and vied with one another in the lavishness of their installations: the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery in Washington. The collection will go on temporary exhibit, starting June 4, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. And last week Annenberg announced that its landing there would become permanent: he had bequeathed his collection en bloc to the Met. At this news, the muted gnashing...
...part, Annenberg (whose flagship magazine was TV Guide) said he had toyed with the idea of turning his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., into a "private little museum," but had decided to place the collection in a wider context. "There are only two complete museums in the world, the Louvre and the Met. My judgment was that the Met was probably the best protection I would get. It was a matter of continuity...
...make the paper more credible and authoritative has also made it duller and more predictable, less willing to take on the powerful and needle the pretentious. "There was a time at the Post when its creative talents were pushed to move forward," says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. "That time has passed." Concedes Bradlee: "We're less concerned with taking risks now that we're successful and 25 years older. There's a certain conservatism that...
David Webster, a former director of the BBC and now a senior fellow of the Annenberg Washington Program on Communications Policy, calls high-tech information gear "the essential hardware of freedom." He rightly urges the U.S. to ease restrictions on the export of such equipment to communist lands, since it will serve the ruled better than the rulers...