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...But there is more too, including the remarkable story of the Morgan’s first librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, a light-skinned black woman who passed as white....
...The Whitney called the piece “a portrait of this divided moment in US history”....
...The feud between society belles Caroline Astor and Alva Vanderbilt in 1883 is a famous example....
...After many years of moving about, Adnan now lives in Paris, where her home, which she shares with her long-term partner, the Syrian sculptor Simone Fattal, is a well-appointed Belle Époque apartment near...
...It was to the Brick House that Johnson repaired for “private moments” with his companion David Whitney....
...In 1979, an exhibition of Andy Warhol’s portraits, ranging from Chairman Mao, Jimmy Carter and Golda Meir to Yves Saint Laurent and Liza Minnelli, occupied an entire floor of New York’s Whitney Museum....
...No one could possibly have imagined the world that existed behind that old wall and infrequently opened iron gate on a quiet lane above Cannes,” reminisced David Douglas Duncan about the sumptuous belle-époque...
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