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Field Farm--This unusual B&B more closelyresembles a Frank Lloyd Wright creation than atypical Berkshire abode. Its sprawling geometricshape spans the 296-acre privately owned grounds,complete with pond, pool, tennis courts and skitrails. Formerly owned by an art collector, thisunique modern estate is a different twist on thetraditional...
...article on the debates around the acquisition of antiquities by the Harvard Art Museums (University, Feb. 19) was well written, fair and balanced. I write to correct just two misunderstandings. First, the Art Museums did not acquire an Anglo-Roman head. Rather, we borrowed one from a private collector who has promised to give the head to the British Museum at or before his death. For this reason, we received the approval of the British Museum before exhibiting the work. The British Museum did not object to our exhibit. Second, we did not exhibit works from dealers in our exhibitions...
There is no mention of Widener in the in the script and no rare-book collector in the dining room on board. Nevertheless, when at the beginning of the film the rusty safe is eagerly opened only to reveal a pile of soaked papers, I half-expected to see what was left of Widener's first edition of Bacon's Essays, the volume he is said to have returned to his cabin to fetch before the ship went under...
...group set up last fall in Washington to document Jewish cultural losses under Nazism, got into the act and started urging MOMA and its chairman, Ronald Lauder, not to return the paintings. (As it happens, Lauder was ambassador to Austria from 1986 to 1987 and is a notable Schiele collector.) In response the Leopold Foundation proposed that an international tribunal be set up to examine the Schieles' true ownership, and it pledged to comply with the tribunal's findings. Constance Lowenthal, director of the World Jewish Congress's Commission for Art Recovery (whose chairman is Lauder), said the foundation...
...been a long time since the last museum survey of Dove's work, and Debra Bricker Balken, who curated this one, has done an exceptional artist full justice. And of course the Phillips Collection is the right place to start it, since Duncan Phillips was the only steady collector Dove had in his whole career and the relationship between the two men was one of the finer examples of mutual nurturing in the annals of American patronage. Phillips kept the wolf from Dove's door, but Dove opened Phillips to what was exclusively visual, not literary...