Word: collectors
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...history programs and only a single Picasso in all of Australia. So after faking it for a while he lit out for Europe, wandering from church to museum. That experience, he writes, gave him a first-rate education but forever ruined him for "the company of some oafish collector who just bought a Jeff Koons but thinks Parmigianino was a kind of cheese." Hughes began freelancing art pieces for newspapers and magazines in London. There he met a lively Australian named Danne Emerson, got her pregnant and married her in 1967. But she preferred hard drugs and serial sex, giving...
...essentially irrelevant to the case at hand. Worse, Johansson seems lost in the role. She's just not old enough or worldly enough to enlist our interest. She does, however, inhabit an apartment almost parodistically stuffed with art deco artifacts, enough of it to stir at least one collector-me-to paroxysms of awe and envy...
...Gardner Museum is located in the former home of Isabella Stewart Gardner, an early 20th-century society woman and art collector. Because she stipulated in her will that the permanent collection of the museum not be altered, empty frames stand where three Rembrandts and a Vermeer were stolen in an 1990 heist. You can get to these museums by taking the Green Line E train to the Museum of Fine Arts stop...
...hear some people tell it, he's a dangerous man. Over the past six years, Yeo has been roaming the world, trailing talented scientists in Washington; San Diego; Palo Alto, Calif.; Edinburgh and elsewhere, and spiriting them back to his home country of Singapore. Like any proud collector, Yeo never tires of ticking off his most prized trophies: former National Cancer Institute star Edison Liu, American husband-and-wife team Nancy Jenkins and Neal Copeland, British cancer researcher David Lane. "I'm a people snatcher," he says unashamedly...
...much in love, and I said so myself." (He enjoys hearing other people talk about him nearly as much as he enjoys talking about himself.) But his marriage was more in the nature of a business arrangement - something between a merger and an acquisition. "I love her as a collector does his most prized object," he tells us. "Once acquired, it becomes all he lives...