Word: karp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other contributors to the Saturday Review discussion include Arnold Gingrich, publisher of Esquire, and Irwin Karp, legal representative for the Authors' League of America...
Batteries--McRobbie, Russell (6), Osofsky (9) and Karp; Melfa, McLandish and Miller...
...nowhere has gargoyle snatching reached such staggering proportions as in Manhattan. There a dogged band of New Yorkers, who call themselves the Anonymous Arts Recovery Society, has managed to cart off for posterity more than 100 tons of chips off notable old blocks. Led by its founder, Ivan Karp, a 38-year-old pop art dealer, the society's hundred dues-paying sympathizers rally wherever the wrecker's ball threatens. Favorite salvage is the architectural ornamentation carved by unknown immigrant European stonemasons who embellished New York's great turn-of-the-century construction boom. On occasion, however...
Pondering Pilasters. To get away with their bulky booty, Karp and his crew have suffered four hernias, wrecked three cars, and paid thousands of dollars to demolition men. "We've got to negotiate with them," says Karp. "They're a rather cynical race, and the whole building would be destroyed if we didn't bargain with them." Months ago, Karp and friends showed up to protest, then recently to haggle as crowbar and sledge hammer sliced into Fifth Avenue's elegant Brokaw mansion, a late 19th century simulacrum of France's Chenonceaux chateau. Karp offered...
...least Karp is doing something about the shame. The Brooklyn Museum is readying an acre for Karp's relics, to be called the Frieda Schiff Warburg Memorial Sculpture Garden. Due to be opened next year, the sanctuary will have antique lampposts lighting the paths, and wistful wanderers will be able to sit on filigree benches and ponder the pilasters of the past. It is just possible that before the project is completed it may include a machine-tooled, I-beam mullion from the first of the glass-and-steel box buildings acetylene-torched out of existence...