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Contents: Twenty Museums You’ve Never Heard Of (Billings, Montana? Muskegon, Michigan? Yes, says the author, you’ll find some great undiscovered museums there. Patrick D. Hazard spent the last year touring the country in search of such finds – to five of which, located in the North and West, he introduces us, in the first installment of our four-part series covering the U.S.), Spin and Pulse (Laura Dean was run over by a truck when she was eighteen months old, and doctors thought she’d never walk. Instead she danced.), Entrepreneurs of Anxiety (Joan Didion and John Grefory Dunne have been called the high priests of culture, California-style. John Lahr disagrees, seeing D & D as merely obsessed with themselves, mirrors of the burgeoisie.), Collecting Original Prints (The word on how to enjoy prints – whether you are buying, selling, or just looking.), Prints Through The Centuries, The Art of Risk (At seventy-six, Graham Greene finally tells us what he did after he started writing.), Still at the Old Drawing Board (For fifty-five years the best in the business have drawn cartoons for The New Yorker. It’s not the idyllic life you might think: 99 percent of what the artists draw is rejected.), The Shock of the New (Robert Hughes, one of the most outspoken art critics of our day, dazzles us via television in a summary of modern art.), Priestess of Sin (In a New York department store, Theda Bara touched a hat. A mob of women rioted to possess the relic. But within five years the vamp of the silent screen was passé.)
Issue: January 1981
Condition: Very Good