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Contents: A Stroll Down Fifty-Seventh Street (“What Wall Street is to finance, Fifty-Seventh Street is to art” says New York gallery owner Robert Miller. Contributing editor Barnaby Conrad III offers an annotated walking tour of the art galleries on the street), The Decorative Arts on Fifty-Seventh Street, Samuel Ramey Can Act! (The New York City Opera’s bass-baritone is one of America’s hottest young singers), Tony Walton (A set designer’s work tends to be taken for granted by most audiences – even when it wins an Oscar or a Tony. One of the best in the business is Tony Walton), Heirs to Maxwell Perkins (“Do one on the depression,” said editor Andre Schiffrin to Studs Terkel. The result was >i>Hard Times. On the other hand, Jerzy Kosinski prefers that editors leave his manuscripts alone. “It’s like the difference,” he says, “between making love to someone you love and making love in groups.” Kosinski, Terkel and five other Americxan writers talk candidly about their editors.), Herbert list (In his day he was probably Germany’s most important photographer. But he never took his work as seriously as his admiters did. The distinguished poet Stephen Spender got to know Herbert List when, as a young student fresh from Oxford, he sojourned to the Weimer Republic in 1929.), Twenty Museums You’ve Never Heard Of (The third in a four-part series visits five museums in the Southwest.)
Issue: April 1981
Condition: Very Good