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“Untitled (Dinosaur Balloon)”

“Untitled (Dinosaur Balloon),” November 25, 1969, by an unknown photographer, is on view through January 18 in Long Story Short, an exhibition marking the fortieth anniversary of Fraenkel Gallery, in San Francisco.
Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

“Home Sweet Home”

“Home Sweet Home,” a photograph by Patty Carroll, from the series Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise. Carroll’s work will be on view in January at Candela Gallery, in Richmond, Virginia.
© The artist. Courtesy Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, and Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston

Kitchen

Kitchen, a mixed-media artwork by Liza Lou, whose work is on view through January 2021 in the exhibition Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City.
© Liza Lou. Courtesy the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Gift of Peter Norton

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Carte-de-visite collages from an album in the exhibition 2020 Vision: Photographs, 1840s–1860s, which is on view through May 10 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.
Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Tunnel Visions

Tunnel Visions, a painting by Charlie Roberts, whose work was on view last week at SCOPE, in Miami.
Courtesy the artist and Neumann Wolfson Art, New York City

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[Report] from the March 2003 issue
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At Ivanwald, men learn to be leaders by loving their leaders. “They’re so busy loving us,” a brother once explained to me, “but who’s loving them?” We were. The brothers each paid $400 per month for room and board, but we were also the caretakers of The Cedars, cleaning its gutters, mowing its lawns, whacking weeds and blowing leaves and sanding. And we were called to serve on Tuesday mornings, when The Cedars hosted a regular prayer breakfast typically presided over by Ed Meese, the former attorney general. Each week the breakfast brought together a rotating group of ambassadors, businessmen, and American politicians. Three of Ivanwald’s brothers also attended, wearing crisp shirts starched just for the occasion; one would sit at the table while the other two poured coffee. 

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