Word: patronism
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...most amount of freedom of form. So here they are, printed in chronological order with their date of publication. The collection's designer, Chris Ware (of "Jimmy Corrigan" fame), wisely makes his hand all but invisible. The strips are just black and white because William Randolph Hearst, syndicator and patron saint of the strip, ran it in the arts section of his papers rather than the color "funnies." Disappointingly Hearst also forced the strip into a strict layout beginning in the summer of '25, stifling Herriman's innovative page design...
...Untitled” (1994) by Greg Sandback might go unnoticed without one of the employees in the gallery pointing it out to a visitor or patron, despite its large size. Pink acrylic yarn is shaped into a triangle with the dimensions 19”x19”x19”. However, it is incredibly small compared to Sandback’s other sculptures, which are also composed of string but take up entire rooms in volume...
...ever more despotic and rude - his irritability perhaps exacerbated by his contraction of the livestock disease brucellosis. The Catholic Church, however, has few doubts about the man. A movement within it wants the Pope to canonize him, and the Archbishop of Barcelona has called for him to be named patron saint of architecture. Many Catalans draw the line at sainthood, arguing that Gaudí's legacy of buildings is, as Daniel Giralt-Miracle puts it, "glory enough...
...directors, always aware of himself as an artist denied his due. The LSD therapy he began in 1966 apparently did not do much to make him more congenial. It's no surprise that at his death he had posted in his apartment an old obituary of Orson Welles, the patron saint of misspent genius...
...tended to be forgotten. True, Margaret could be a difficult, high-handed presence - who often demanded deference even from her friends. But her many adopted charities greatly valued her efforts on their behalf. And she dutifully slogged through her allotted round of ribbon cuttings, provincial trips and hospital openings. Patron or president of more than 80 organizations, she worked hard for the Guide Association, the Royal Ballet and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, a particular favorite of which she had served as president continuously since...