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Robert Hughes' generosity in praising the National Gallery's new East Building [May 8] is far too restrained. It's an achievement in land use, light play and mass as visceral as the pyramids. Thank God this country has a Cheops like Paul Mellon to allow us the esthetic bravado of the likes...
Bunny is the one who makes everything in the Mellon domestic world seem so effortlessly perfect. "The job that Paul has given me is to set the stage for the life he moves in," she says. But for fear that perfection would itself be an imperfection, Bunny carries with her a pair of scissors, notes Capote. "When things are looking a little too neat, she takes a little snip out of a chair or something so that it will have that lived-in look...
Like many other couples of unlimited means, the Mellons are apart as often as they are together. Bunny spends much of her time in Paris. When Paul inexplicably refused to buy her an apartment there, she bought it herself. When he goes to Paris, he stays at a hotel. There are other hints that the Mellon marriage falls short of the middle-class ideal of togetherness. "If I were describing him in a nutshell," she says, "I would say that he is very sensitive−and totally insensitive. He says things sometimes that are really extraordinarily touching. But you could...
...goal has been a search for that tranquil temple. He seems to have found it. "Bernard Berenson spoke of 'living life as a work of art,'" says director of the National Gallery. "Paul Mellon comes as close as anyone I've ever known to doing that...
...books recount the family history: The Mellon Family by Burton Hersh (Morrow) and The Mellons by David E. Koskoff (Crowell...