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...said that he considered it a "major mistake" that organizations like the Mellon Foundation did not class Asian-Americans as a minority group...
...decision by the Andrew M. Mellon Foundationto exclude Asian students from an affirmativeaction fellowship program will be discussedtomorrow in a workshop on the minority status ofAsian-Americans...
According to Paul, "Glazer sees affirmativeaction as a regressive policy that actually limitsthe ability of minorities to achieve parity withthe mainstream. This will be a stimulatingdebate--especially since Harvard Collegeofficially recognizes Asian-Americans asminorities and yet the Mellon Fellowship islimited to Blacks, Native Americans andHispanics...
...renamed Recent Acquisitions because, as the museum's director Philippe de Montebello wrote, the rise in art prices "has limited the quantity and quality of acquisitions to the point where we can no longer expect to match the standards of just a few years ago." To Paul Mellon, long the Maecenas of Washington's National Gallery of Art, "everything important is ridiculously expensive . . . I just refuse to pay these absurd prices." And as the museum's buying power fades, public experience of art is impoverished, and the brain drain of gifted young people from curatorship into art dealing accelerates...
...keep that up," Eisenman, 57, says today. "Peter Eisenman is ultimately a friendlier person -- kinder, gentler. People are going to like my buildings more." In fact, he suddenly has lots of plum commissions -- an office building in Tokyo, a research complex at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, the Columbus convention center. Meanwhile, he will bask this week in the celebrations surrounding the dedication of his first major building, the $43 million Wexner Center for the Visual Arts at the Ohio State University in Columbus...