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That snappy performance reflected the damn-the-expense attitude of Alan Bond, 45, the swashbuckling tycoon from Perth (real estate, mining, oil), who heads the Australia II syndicate. Bond, a onetime sign painter, is making his fourth try for the Cup, a record surpassed only by Britain's indomitable Sir Thomas Lipton earlier in the century. In his latest bid, Bond could spend as much as $3.5 million for a prize initially valued at only 100 guineas (about $70 by current reckoning...
...Penck, 43, is a lesser painter and sculptor than Baselitz, but he is a more curious figure. Credit where credit is due: his huge early pictographs like Standard, 1971, have an undeniable, simple power, even a degree of mystery. One realizes where a New York graffiti artist like the fulsomely promoted Keith Haring, 25-the Peter Max of the subways-filched his ideas, a decade later. Penck's paintings consist of stick figures and linear signs, enacting parodies of myth, ritual and archaic language. They draw on a wide range of sources, from algebra to Dipylon vases, from...
...Emperor has shared his quiet life with Empress Nagako, 80, whom he married, by traditional arrangement, in 1924. A merry music lover who has enjoyed command performances by Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson, Nagako is also a distinguished painter. On walks, the royal couple like to collect plants, which, it is said, he studies and she sketches. Together they incarnate the classical Japanese ideal of mutual devotion...
...only means that Japanese collectors (not that there are many) ignore the work of contemporary Japanese painters and sculptors, which is why there are some 1,500 emigre artists from Japan working in New York City today. Those who make a solid reputation on the American art scene, like the painter Shusaku Arakawa-a highly intellectual artist whose half-conceptual, half-painterly work is, as one American critic put it, "haggard with self-consciousness"are much envied in Tokyo. But the most admired living artists are all Western, with Jasper Johns at the top, closely followed by Christo, whose island...
...Bowie was in danger of doing just that. Pale under all his stage makeup and already well into the high life, he was held together only by the weight of his old dreams. Born in Brixton, one of London's toughest neighborhoods, Bowie originally dreamed of being a painter. He describes his father Hayward Jones as "a gambler and drinker and layabout for most of his life. I have one brother and one sister that I know about." His mother Margaret Mary Burns was a movie usher when she met Hayward, who eventually settled down doing publicity for a children...