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...artist, an evolving portrait of Van Gogh as traced by the wide-ranging - and often surprising - roster of artists and works he admired. It ain't all Rembrandt, by any means, and along with Dürer, Honoré Daumier and Delacroix are unlikelier inspirations, such as Fritz von Uhde, Hubert von Herkomer and Albert Besnard. But the obscure artists are an intriguing piece of the artist's aesthetic puzzle, and some of them are, as Van Gogh said, "damned good." The museum's researchers have tallied references to more than 1,100 artworks in Van Gogh's copious correspondence...
...catch up. We grabbed the defected East German scientist Wernher von Braun, the father of Germany's V-2 rockets, and put him to work. He rigged up one of his Redstone missiles and launched the U.S. satellite Explorer. It was kind of puny, but it sent a message: we were...
BRIDGE IS NOT HIP Nor is gin rummy. Canasta? Disasta! So why did a huge cast of big-name designers, including Diane von Furstenberg, Collette Dinnigan and David Rockwell, plus some celebrities agree to design a dowdy old playing card? First, one of the hottest trends in design right now is crossing over--working in a discipline other than one's specialty. Second, the money raised from the cards, which go on sale this month at MAC cosmetics stores, will benefit the MAC AIDS Fund. And third, the cards all feature naked people. The cards above, from left, were designed...
...Most people who have already been deans before don’t want to do it again,” said Story Professor of Law Arthur T. Von Mehren. “I would be surprised if Leibman was interested—why would he want to return to the trials and tribulations of deanship...
...History indicates that the President will choose an internal candidate,” Von Mehren said...