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...might say," explains Castelli, "that I acted in enlightened self-interest." Such international shows can make prices go up, and eventually Castelli's profits on Jasper Johns will more than make up for the $15,000 he sacrificed for the Paris show...
...year-the favored method in Europe-or take work on consignment and sell it for a straight one-third commission. The percentage is not as exorbitant as it sounds, for the business entails hidden costs. Manhattan's avant-garde Dealer Leo Castelli, for instance, recently arranged a Jasper Johns show in Paris, even though all commissions went to Paris dealers...
Barracuda Waters. Not all of Dos Passos' sad sagas involve labor unions. Jasper Milliron is a driving venture capitalist who hopes to give an old-line baking-powder company a technological transfusion. Instead he sees his dream bleed to death in the barracuda waters of corporate executive suites. "Man is a creature that builds institutions," writes Dos Passos. The larger moral of Midcentury is that these institutions in turn grow so big and rigid, corrupt and powerful that they crush and entrap the builders. Whether it is bigness or power spawned by bigness that corrupts, big labor can scarcely...
...Philadelphia-born Man Ray, a couple of dreamy street scenes by Italy's Giorgio de Chirico. Among the younger artists, none were equal in quality, and some seemed to be more action painters than surreal. Robert Rauschenberg's Bed -sheets, pillow and quilt daubed with paint-and Jasper Johns's Target, with its anatomical sculptures, including a penis, were merely repulsive...
Bridgeport, Conn. Incumbent Democratic Mayor Samuel J. Tedesco, 44, who two years ago overturned (by 161 votes) Socialist Jasper McLevy's foot-dragging, 24-year rule, beat back the old (81) Socialist again, this time by 15,500 votes...