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Today Johnson markets his sculptures with executive aplomb. Last year his work brought in $700,000; this year the amount may reach $1 million. His Wash ington-based Sculpture Placement organization will put on twelve shows this year at urban plazas, resort hotels, corporate headquarters and airports. They are not aimed only at collectors. "We do some advertising in ARTnews, but we also advertise in Architectural Digest, " says Johnson. "That's where the money and power for outdoor sculpture is." In the art world Johnson has been as much a patron as a producer. He has provided substantial funding...
Devotion to the ordinary is apparently becoming too predictable for the restless Johnson. His latest sculptures are moving in new and slightly naughty directions. The artist is contemplating one for placement behind shrubbery. It would depict a man furtively zipping up his trousers. For Johnson it represents a common public event: using bushes for bathrooms...
...Columbia's director of career placement, Athena P. Constantine, said students' concern about starting salaries has increased markedly in recent years. "There is a heavy emphasis on 'I just want to make a lot of money,'" she said...
...Harvard's trust and gift department, headed by Assistant Treasurer Henry J. Ameral, deals with the 10 or 12 real estate-oriented gifts that come in each month, like individual houses, plots of land or shares in a building. Almost all of it gets appraised and sold. The private placement department, which handles Harvard's holdings in different real estate trusts, buildings and shopping centers, makes only one deal every two or three months--but it will turn over $20 million at a crack...
...around the room then has to change it a little bit--it's very fast, and there's no sitting and waiting," says Mark E. Fishbein '84, who took the class in the spring and afterward received a score of 770 out of a perfect 800 on the Harvard placement exam...