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...European Studies are now only available to students with passports from the European Union, Australia, Canada, Japan, or New Zealand. The visa troubles have already impacted students’ summer plans. Anna Raginskaya ’11 spent last summer as an intern at Sotheby’s Auction House in London. At the end of her internship, she was offered an unpaid position for the following summer, an opportunity she had to decline recently due to work permit complications. “It was a really painful situation,” Raginskaya said. “There...
...three Mondrian paintings as they began building one of the great art collections of modern times. On Feb. 23-25, eight months after Saint Laurent's death at age 71, Christie's will sell off the pair's entire collection - paintings and sculptures, antiquities and furniture - in an unprecedented auction at Paris' Grand Palais. Despite the economic crisis, experts say the rarity and quality of the works virtually ensures the sale will shatter the all-time auction record for a private collection: $206 million hauled in for the estate of Victor and Sally Ganz...
...significant as a chance to mine the last vestiges of the 20th century aesthetic, and reflect on those same walls that divide - and sometimes unite - the artist and artisan, taste and knowledge, sense of style and pursuit of the sublime. (See pictures from Yves Saint Laurent's art auction...
...heyday as the avatar of the new classic aesthetic. But with Saint Laurent's death, and the dispersing of his collection, the Salon stands as a fleeting study of how one of the great designers of our time continually rediscovered beauty. Jonathan Rendell, Christie's point man on the auction, says Saint Laurent's collecting quest undoubtedly helped feed his vision of couture. "The textures and the structure are the first thing you notice," he says as he tours the apartment, singling out several cubist works, a 1928 leopard-skin bench by Gustave Miklos, and a 15th century tapestry...
Meanwhile there was the Rose, with its collection of more than 7,100 objects, including works by major American artists like Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. In 2007 the collection was assessed by the auction house Christie's to be worth around $350 million. The downturn in the art market since last fall makes its value today anybody's guess, but it would still command a sizable sum. Brandeis trustees insist that if they can't raise money by selling art, they will have to reduce staff by 30% - there were already cuts last year...