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...DIED. JEAN-MICHEL FOLON, 71, Belgian-born painter and graphic artist whose work was familiar to millions from poster campaigns and magazine covers for The New Yorker, Esquire and TIME; in Monaco. An unwilling student of architecture, Folon left his hometown of Uccle, near Brussels, for Paris at the age of 21, but first found success in the U.S. with his eye-catching, whimsical pictures of birds, flying men, rainbows and billowy landscapes. Always prolific, Folon's style survived translation onto postage stamps, giant subway murals and, in later years, to animated films and sculpture...
DIED. JEAN-MICHEL FOLON, 71, commercial artist whose humanistic, whimsical designs appeared in galleries, opera houses and subway stations around the world; in Monaco. In much of Folon's work, which included posters for UNICEF and covers for TIME and other magazines, his blank-faced Everyman, often dwarfed by modern structures, caricatured the chaos of urban life...
...Michel Bord, the CEO of Pernod Ricard USA. It's about the transformational growth of a French spirits company born of wormwood and anise to a "gentlemanly" global gorilla with a premium portfolio of wines and spirits centered on 14 major brands...
...Michel Kimmelman is not the kind of art critic who spends all his time in museums. He's the kind who finds himself trudging up the side of Mont Ste.-Victoire, the peak in Provence that was Paul Cézanne's perennial motif. Or getting lost in the darkness of the Nevada desert while pondering Michael Heizer's massive earthworks. Or setting out to visit the world's largest collection of light bulbs, only to detour to a museum of hunting decoys, musing all the while on the history of connoisseurship and the evolving notion of the marvelous...
Lunar Park is about a novelist named, not coincidentally, Bret Easton Ellis. The fictional Bret has written the same novels the real one has. The fictional Bret cavorts with celebrities ("Jean-Michel Basquiat, Molly Ringwald, John McEnroe, Ronald Reagan Jr. ..."), has numerous affairs with both sexes and is perpetually strung out on coke, tequila, heroin, cosmopolitans and crystal meth. He even has a novelist pal named Jay McInerney. (According to Ellis, McInerney was not thrilled with his cameo appearance. "Really, out of all the s_____ things that have been written about him, this is the lowest? I guess...