The Staircase and the Bar (Ground Floor): Jakobson in her Dutch-made Free Care stairlift. Tom Sachs created the bar from Con Ed barricades after she sold her dining-room furniture at Christie’s. “I ...
A longtime trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, she was a savvy collector who befriended young artists like Robert Mapplethorpe and made her townhouse a showcase. By Penelope Green Barbara Jakobson, ...
The scathing remark settled any dispute: Vladimir Nabokov was not to be admitted as a Harvard professor. In 1957, McGeorge Bundy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, wrote to the chairmen of all ...