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...boomer generation is also bidding. Meyers credits the trend for what he calls "starchitecture" for creating the rush on contemporary design. "If you've seriously been collecting art for 25 years and you've got all the best pieces of the artists you collect, and you're ready to retire, then you're going to build your own personal museum," he explains. And in that "museum," the object you sit on has to be as important as the art on the walls. Meyers estimates that 90% of the people collecting design are contemporary-art collectors. "The art world is eating...
Although it's not his taste, Krakoff points out a growing trend in the market for more organic styles like those of Castle, John Makepeace and John Dickinson. "That organic look is more fashionable now, maybe as a reaction against what was hot last season, you know, the plastic stuff," he says...
MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE, HE understood the appeal of a muscular, whirring engine. Robert Petersen, who in the late 1940s launched what became a $450 million media empire by starting Hot Rod and Motor Trend magazines, spent his career nurturing America's obsession with cars. Among his contributions: the globally acclaimed Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, a structure flanked by huge steel fins. The museum houses 200 cars, including a Model T, various Cadillac coupes and a 1971 DeTomaso Pantera that belonged to Elvis Presley...
...Japan,” which was published in 2000, and “The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sohei in Japanese History,” which came out this year. Kurashige said the University’s decision runs counter to the nation-wide trend of enhancing college programs in pre-modern Japanese studies. “If Harvard is phasing out this sort of program, it’ll send a message to a whole lot of other universities that the study of pre-modern Japanese history is not important...
This year’s increase is in line with the trend of the last decade. Total costs have increased by an average of 4.5 percent since...