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Backed by an endowment of $2.3 billion, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., has no need to count the pennies, or even the millions. It proved that again last week at a London auction, where the museum bought Andrea Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi for $ 10.45 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 29, 1985 | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

For the Jews, a camp; for Kohl, Bitburg; and for American vets, perhaps a sonorous speech. The picture now contains all the right elements. But the elements do not sit well on the canvas. They mock one another. What can it mean to honor the murdered if one also honors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Bitburg Fiasco | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

In a Harvard Book Store-sponsored talk at the Brattle Theatre on April 1, McEwan placed the book in a long line of such novels-in-a-day, mentioning—among others—Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses. These are bold comparisons indeed, and McEwan’s work...

Author: By David G. Evans, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: McEwan Stalls on 'Saturday' | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

De Chirico's spirit is strongest in the top-floor painter's studio, which remains just as he left it at the time of his death. Dried-up paint tubes and brushes are strewn about, and his unfinished oil-on-canvas copy of Michelangelo's masterpiece The Doni Tondo is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drawn From Life | 3/28/2005 | See Source »

Spring is here, and for Spanish dance-and-music lovers that means just one thing: Seville's Feria de Abril (April Fair), a flamenco frenzy that takes place April 12-17. Flamenco is native to Andalusia and has Moorish, Roma and Jewish roots. The fair is one of the region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You're in ... Seville | 3/28/2005 | See Source »

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