Word: collectors
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...Tonight Show" star; for 30 years he's played a doofus Carson, a smug buffoon. "Please," he said during his nine-minute opening monologue, "hold your applause until it's for me." Now, we know that the real Steve Martin, whoever that may be, is an art collector and New Yorker humorist. So after Billy Crystal's wisenheimer tumling and Whoopi Goldberg's japes à la Belle Barth, Martin was meant to class the proceedings up a bit. And so he did. He turned Oscar Night into a party he might not mind attending. We give him a B plus...
...then, particularly, there was Chardin, the 18th century French master of still life, whose benign and composed presence is palpable in Manets like the Bunch of Asparagus, 1880, with its almost miraculous rendering of the blue tips of the asparagus spears. (It sold, fresh off the easel, to a collector named Charles Ephrussi. Manet felt he had been paid too generously, and with his usual wit he sent Ephrussi a tiny painting of a single asparagus spear, with a note: "This one was missing from your bunch...
...volatile titular liquid from a criminal gang and begun to boil some of it up so he can drip it into his ear for its psychotropic properties. Thereafter it becomes a double cat-and-mouse tale as the gang hunts down "S" while "S" gets hired by an art collector to find a missing artist who can cast the liquid into a sculpture. Meanwhile, nobody really knows where this liquid comes from or what...
...were when we walked out of a jam. We made it the rest of the way to the drugstore and got that month's "Famous Monsters." Here's what the cover looked like; this issue recently sold on eBay for $45. (What the world needs now - yet another robust collector's niche...
...their homeland, they say, arguing that the state would never grant an export license for any Malevich canvas. Perplexed Malevich experts at home and abroad, however, fear that a native mogul has cut a deal to buy the canvas on the cheap and then resell it to a foreign collector for a huge profit after bribing Culture Ministry officials to grant an export license or securing a legal move to lift the ban on exports. With three other Black Squares in Russian museums, they wonder, does the state desperately need a fourth? "The cries of saving Malevich for Russians...