Word: skinazi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THREE WEEKS AGO, OUR ART DEPARTMENT COVER COORdinator, Linda Freeman, received a phone call from Maurice Skinazi, an international businessman and art collector. Mr. Skinazi suggested that if by any chance TIME was going to do a story on the Rio summit, we should consider using something painted by his friend, Brazilian painter Lia Mittarakis...
...Skinazi, who might consider a second career as an editor, had guessed our plans exactly right. Yes indeed, we were readying a special report on the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio, and yes, we were in need of a cover illustration. Freeman asked Skinazi to send a transparency of the painting. Even though TIME rarely uses unsolicited artwork for the cover, the simple beauty of this painting delighted everyone, and art director Rudolph Hoglund decided to use it. "Before I told Lia about the situation, I asked her to name the most famous magazine...
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