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...example, two Rothko paintings were sold to the Liechtenstein firm of Galleria Bernini (two of whose directors also sit on the boards of four Marlborough shells). The Galleria paid $140,000 for them, of which the estate received $84,000. But Mrs. Paul Mellon wanted those very Rothkos so ardently, Lloyd testified, that Marlborough bought them back from Galleria Bernini for a whopping $420,000 and then resold them to her for that amount. "Since the price was so high," Lloyd said with benign altruism, "I didn't want to profit from it." Yet if the sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Rothko Tangle | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

...Certain conclusions may then be drawn as to his qualities." And how may one assess fame? On points. An artist gets 300 points, for instance, if he sells a work to the Museum of Modern Art or the Met, and so down through the Tate Gallery (200), and the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Turin (160). For a one-man show at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm he gets a 300, but one at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris is worth only 75; a show at MOMA brings 450, but a retrospective at the Whitney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: A Modest Proposal: Royalties for Artists | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...unceasing flow of projects issues from his office in the Seagram Building, and currently he shares with Paul Rudolph and Kevin Roche an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art called "Work in Progress." It includes models of Johnson's glass arcades for N.Y.U. modeled on the Milan Galleria but as high as Beauvais Cathedral; a tumbling water garden for Fort Worth; slanted prismatic skyscrapers for Minneapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Duke of Xanadu at Home | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

...three high-rise apartment houses have gone up with a cluster of little blue-roofed town houses in between. Both the houses and the apartment buildings rise from a platform two stories high; the covered area underneath will be used for parking, and will also serve as a pedestrian galleria of shops. San Francisco also has its own conservation program for neighborhoods of old houses that are going downhill, though not yet seriously substandard. In the first of these, the Pacific Heights area, almost all of 146 blight-touched buildings are now com pletely restored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Under the Knife, or All For Their Own Good | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

Marlborough opened in 1946 in three cramped basement rooms at 17 Old Bond Street, London, and now occupies those rooms plus the top three floors of a dignified new building across the street. There is a Marlborough Galleria d'Arte in Rome, and next year there will be a branch of Marlborough in Cologne. In New York carpenters and plasterers are busy converting one entire floor-all 11,000 sq. ft. of it-of an office building on 57th Street and Madison Avenue into what will be known as the Marlborough-Gerson* Gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Aggressive Giant | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

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