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Standing before Van Dyck's work, as a patron wrote to him, one felt "the Luck to be astonish'd in the righte Place." The current exhibition of Van Dyck's English portraits, organized by Art Historian Oliver Millar at the National Portrait Gallery in London, shows how well Van Dyck's fluency has lasted. It is a delectable exhibition, though cramped and clumsily installed, and it makes one realize how far the tradition of formal portraiture has declined since the days when Van Dyck epitomized...
...Clinch River breeder reactor in Tennessee has long been a symbol of federal waste and environmental abuse. The House last week deleted funds for it and some other controversial projects, partly in retaliation against Congressmen who had led the fight against pay increases. But Clinch River has one invaluable patron in the Senate, Howard Baker. He told his staff that he had to reach deep into his pocket of lOUs in order to save the project, which he did on a 49-to-48 vote...
...York Artist James Steinmeyer: last July, to be precise. That is when he got a note from an admirer of his interior illustrations for House & Garden asking him to design her family's Christmas card. Steinmeyer, 32, was only too delighted to comply, since his hopeful patron was Nancy Reagan. Steinmeyer's gouache of the White House Red Room was mailed last week to some 60,000 of the First Family's friends, relatives and political supporters. Paid for by the Republican National Committee, the card carries the message, "The President and Mrs. Reagan extend...
...pages; $100) by Mary Tregear. During China's felicitously named Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1278), expanding trade provided the artists of the Middle Kingdom with new sources of income and fresh creative energies. As Oxford Curator Tregear notes, "Every class in society [could be] regarded as a patron, inspiring or encouraging either the growth or selection of a particular style of pottery." The pieces showed continuing variety: white glazes, hard stoneware, porcelain, greenware; dishes of great poise and deceptive simplicity. Even humble spittoons were elegantly designed with a finely crackled finish. Tregear includes hundreds of pictures, plus a wealth...
Chernenko traveled widely with Brezhnev, giving rise to speculation that the Soviet President had picked him as his heir apparent. But without his patron's protection, Chernenko was apparently unable to win votes from Politburo members who remembered all too well how he had opened mineral-water bottles for his boss during Kremlin meetings...