Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ladies and gentlemen," announced the auctioneer at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, "we now come to the Krupp diamond"-a flawless, 33.19-carat blue-white stone once given by German Industrialist Baron Alfried Krupp to his wife Vera, and considered one of the world's great gems. $100,000, commenced the auctioneer, and up shot the price. $150,000 . . . $175,000 . . . $225,000. At $300,000, even Jeweler Harry Winston, who had long coveted the stone, was forced to drop out. Winning bid: $305,000. The determined purchaser: Richard Burton, who sent his agents to snap...
Washington's 122-year-old Smithsonian Institution has often been called "the nation's attic." Over the years, public-spirited citizens have given it a little bit of practically everything, from the Hope Diamond to, inevitably, some art. But museumgoers in search of the art had a hard time finding it in a few cramped galleries behind the stuffed elephants. Under the leadership of Secretary Dillon Ripley, the Smithsonian has recently been cleaning out its attic. Last week, with a black-tie gala for 2,300 guests led by Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, the Smithsonian...
...Tigers' lead was shortlived. With two outs in the third inning, Ignacio drew a walk. Fremuth had a 3-2 count on Lord when the Crimson captain powered a drive that carried over the centerfielder's head onto the second diamond at Soldiers' Field, where the Yardlings were battling Princeton's freshman nine...
...Institute introduced a whole generation of art students to ceramics. Among his disciples was Berkeley's James Melchert, 37, who today turns out baffling ceramic figurines molded like coffee mugs, Mickey Mouse heads or crumpled rags; they are to be used as "players" on a six-foot-square, diamond-patterned board in mystical, Melchert-invented games that the spectator is supposed to play against himself. When Melchert had an exhibition recently at Boston's Obelisk Gallery, faculty members at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where even the computers play games, found his work so diverting that they convinced M.I.T...
...increase the tension of his flaring abstract forms, Youngerman recently abandoned historically approved vertical or horizontal canvases, began experimenting with diamond shapes. He finds that they have a symmetry of their own, and also create "relationships between the image and limit of the canvas in a satisfying way." Nonetheless, unlike other painters working with unconventionally shaped canvases, Youngerman still believes that "the shape is secondary to the image on the canvas. Some people think that abstract painting is dead. I think it's hardly been explored...