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...need his drawings any more." Switching furnaces to keep other glassmakers from copying his methods, Costantini limits each sculpture to an edition of three-one for the artist (who must approve it), one for himself (to sell when the price is right), one for Collector Peggy Guggenheim, an early benefactress of the project. Then he adds his finishing touches. To give a wizened patina to Picasso's sprightly nymphs and fauns, he dipped the little people in acid baths. Now their skins look aged and lived...
Last April, when Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art gave a black-tie party to celebrate the opening of its "Three Centuries of American Painting" exhibition, Edie and Andy stood cheek by jowl with Lady Bird Johnson, Mrs. Vincent Astor and Harry Guggenheim. Andy was wearing yellow sunglasses and a ragged tuxedo jacket over paint-splattered black work pants. Edie had dyed her hair silver (to match Andy's), wore lilac pajamas that covered nothing but a body stocking. Since then, they have gone to more parties than a caterer, sometimes staying for just a moment before moving...
Saul Bellow has called him "one of the very best writers of his generation." He has won Guggenheim and Houghton Mifflin fellowships, and is currently living in Greece on a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Critics found his earlier books, The Cat Man (about circus life) and The Circle Home (about boxing), flat on characterization and rickety on plot, but praised him as a stylist. The Peacock's Tail is the story of a youne New Yorker's trials after he loses his girl Sandy to a Jewish rival. He becomes a refugee...
...insurance company. Philosophers and novelists are not exactly swamped with management job offers, but their salaries are higher, their lecture fees munificent, and, what with paperbacks, they not only can get anything published, but published for gold. Then there are the foundations. If one can't get a Guggenheim, one can always get a Ford, and if not a Ford, a Rockefeller. At the last meeting of the Northwestern University Finnegans Wake Society, a discussion group of professors and friends, eleven of the 14 members reported they were going to Europe for the summer-and not paying for their...
...With Museum President Harry F. Guggenheim (right) before Pissarro's L'Hermitage...