Then in 1993, while visiting a gallery in Beverly Hills, he met an art dealer--a striking brunette named Esthella Provas--whom he invited to become his art consultant.
His burgeoning interest in contemporary art was met with mixed emotions by his conventional, devoutly Catholic family.
When I met Swinton at an art gallery opening not long after the film was released (I interviewed her boyfriend, the painter Sandro Kopp), I wanted to hug her (though I didn't dare -- her white suit was too awesome to crush).
When Ms. Madrigal's new friend, Susan Hanover, 61, came to her house on the day they met, they talked about art and their creative projects.
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Born in Kuala Lumpur in 1915 where her father was a lawyer, she trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where she met Denison.
After the war Peyton pursued his love of drawing, heading to Manchester Art School where he met future wife and now successful children's author Kath Peyton.
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Unsurprisingly, it met with universal praise for its unique art style and action-packed story.
The pair met in September 2001 when they studied art history together, although the prince later switched to geography.
She was on the founding team of Art.sy and there met her future investors, including Dorsey and Google chairman Eric Schmidt.
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Examples of her work reside in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and New York's Met.
They met in bohemian London when she was an art student and he was working for an estate agent and writing poetry.
Heather first encountered such work, he says, when he met a North Korean painter exhibiting at an art fair in Harare, Zimbabwe in 2000.
Peter Barnet, the Met's curator in charge of medieval art and the Cloisters, said he had been hoping for some time to bring in a work of contemporary art that complemented the Cloisters' setting and collection.
Pasto sent the drawings to mainstream museums, such as New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim, but was met with resistance.
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The cover art was a freebie from a graphic designer Katsiris met through a friend, as was the design of premiercrumusic.com.
The Met said it had previously "lacked" early 20th Century art, but with Lauder's donation it would be at the forefront of world collections.
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Lauder has long been entwined with New York City's art institutions, serving as president and chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as various committees at the Met since the 1980s.
She met her husband, Sam, at the New England School of Art, in Boston.
She married an American she met as a student of graphic design at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, and they were off to New York.
He described how he met Mrs Crompton, 34, in August 2010 through a friend from art college called Jamie Lynch who he called Jim.
The four artists were on the cusp of the radical Cubist movement in the early 1900s, a period underrepresented in the Met's current exhibition encompassing more than 5, 000 years of art history, according to museum officials.
On Monday, Camilla met osteoporosis patients at the opening of a state-of-the-art medical centre in Chippenham, Wiltshire.
Soon after, at the 2001 Milan Furniture Fair, the couple met Stefano Grandi, head of an Italian company that makes motors and an art patron.
Along with the collection, the Met announced the creation of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art to serve as a mecca for scholars and curators studying Cubism.
Ms Christopher, the daughter of a miner who trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Lamda), married Burton when she was 19 having met him on the set of her first and only film, The Last Days of Dolwyn, in 1948.
Pollock isn't trained in architecture, so the questions he asks his friend tend to be questions you or I might ask if we met him, and because both of them are engaged in trying to create art in disciplines that are mostly about commerce, they find plenty of common ground.
Allen and Gehry met early on to talk about how to design an institution for an anti-institutional art form, and Gehry was hooked by Allen's excitement.
While Gary was receiving cancer treatment, he met a counsellor at his local hospital in Maidstone, Kent, who was organising weekend art and creative writing workshops for cancer patients.
But it also redefines and re-evaluates American art and art history and documents the enormous evolution in its acceptance and understanding since the founding of the Met's American Wing in 1924 as a collection of early American rooms saved from demolition.
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"I selected the Met as the way to share this collection because I feel that it's essential that Cubism - and the art that follows it, for that matter - be seen and studied within the collections of one of the greatest encyclopaedic museums in the world, " he said.
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