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Fashion Friday: Burger Eyeshadow, Herb Ritts Retrospective and Other Style Scoop
TIME’s Feifei Sun rounds up the brilliant and bizarre from this week in fashion.
The Crystal Palace
The Megarich don't build pyramids anymore--labor costs and all. But for the past century, the next best thing for them has been to establish art museums with...
Retreat to Getty's La Posta Vecchia
To where would you retreat if you had unparalleled wealth? J. Paul Getty, whose oil empire had made him the world's richest man by the 1950s, looked just...
The Return of the Relics
A long Greek drama came closer to its end last week when the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles agreed to return to Greece two ancient artifacts: a...
Relics' Return
A long Greek drama came closer to its end last week when the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles agreed to return to Greece two ancient artifacts: a ...
Art: Case of the Looted Relics
Great art museums are in part about the beautiful display of money: dearly acquired works shown in costly surroundings. By that standard, the J. Paul Getty...
Texas-Size: Pennzoil wins $10.5 billion
While the rest of America sat watching New Year's Day bowl games on TV on Jan. 1, 1984, Getty Oil Scion Gordon Getty and J. Hugh Liedtke, chairman of Pennzoil,...
Milestones Apr. 28, 2003
DIED. ROBERT ATKINS, 72, influential, hackle-raising weight-loss guru; of severe head injuries from a fall on an icy sidewalk on April 8; in New York City. He...
ARCHITECTURE: Getty Center and Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao:
A Benedictine chronicler once wrote of a "white mantle of churches" stretched across medieval France. In a related way, America in the past century has mantled...
Edgar Degas, Photographer
When he started taking photographs regularly, in 1895, Edgar Degas was 61 and long established as one of the great French painters. But his disposition, sober at...
