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...winner will be announced within a few weeks, Bernstein said. The weekend sportscasting slot is not the only reward. The winner will also be sent to the Bahamas to rest. That is, unless she decides to donate the prize to the Channel 2 Auction as suggested by one contestant...
...America-though not in Europe-for museums to sell their unwanted objects. So why the fuss? Because, his critics charge, Hoving's administration had disposed of important works to raise cash, tried to conceal it and made special arrangements with favored dealers instead of putting pictures up for auction or on the open market. Furthermore, by claiming some of the sold pictures were "superfluous" and "duplicates," the Met bent its standards of taste and scholarship. "In the history of painting there are no duplicates," said Britain's leading journal of art history, the Burlington Magazine, which called Hoving...
...current Met ruckus goes back to 1970, when the museum bought Velásquez's portrait of his black apprentice, Juan de Pareja, for $5,544,000 -the highest price ever paid at auction for a work of art. To pay it, Hoving and his Acquisitions Committee had to liquidate the capital left in the museum's Fletcher Fund, about $6,000,000, and commit themselves to pay back at least a part of it, in yearly installments of $160,000 through 1976. In effect, the buying power of the Metropolitan's 17 departments had been partly...
...Which entitled them to the winner's share of the auction-money pool...
When the slave raiders come, Bay-ungumay, Solitude's mother-to-be, is chained and shipped off to the plantations on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. There, African animism and life cycles are replaced by the auction block and the permanent registry system: the list of slaves never changes, and the names of the dead are transferred to the living...