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Harvard students may be forced into cramped rooms in awful-smelling dorms, but they can hang artwork by Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns on their walls. The Student Rental Program at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum allows students to rent highly valued artwork each fall for only $25, $45, or—at the very most?...
...clearly not Kansas when Dorothy dons Balenciaga. Pride & Prejudice star KEIRA KNIGHTLEY and minimalist painter BRICE MARDEN are part of an Oz-themed pictorial in next month's Vogue. Annie Leibovitz also shot painters Jasper Johns and John Curren as the Cowardly Lion and the Tin Man. Aren't artists supposed to be prickly, reclusive and, you know, serious? Not when Annie's folks call. "They just told me to bring hats," says Marden, a friend of Leibovitz's. "It was easier than a Gap ad I did once...
...President Reagan by phone and bullishly announcing to the world, "I feel like I've got ten years left." Three strokes, one suffered in mid-November, have left the once irrepressible Schroeder feeble, barely able to speak, weepy and depressed. His fondest hope--to return to his home in Jasper, Ind.--has been repeatedly dashed by setbacks. "We have bounced from emotions of excited, happy and hopeful to frustrated, sad, angry and helpless," says Schroeder's son Mel, 31, an engineer. "It hasn't been the easiest of times." Not for Bill Schroeder, and certainly not for his family...
...recognizable. Even acknowledged reproductions of his work sell for hundreds of dollars on eBay. Two years ago, the British magazine ArtReview compiled a Top 10 ranking of the most highly valued artists in terms of the total value of sales. Botero came out at No. 5, behind artists like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg but ahead of Dutch painter Karel Appel and Britain's David Hockney. The editors estimated that Botero's paintings and sculptures had sold over the years for more than $57 million. Although a big chunk of those profits went to collectors, millions have been made...
...book is not new. Mao's womanizing, gourmandizing and peculiar personal habits?his aversion to bathing and teeth brushing, for instance?surfaced in the entertaining 1994 memoir by his physician Li Zhisui. Evidence of Mao's Machiavellian ruthlessness has been seeping out of China for years. Journalist Jasper Becker reported in his 1996 book Hungry Ghosts that China's granaries were bulging during the 1958-61 famine, the worst in history...