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The article reports on Glenn Horowitz, a book dealer in Manhattan, New York City who in recent years has come to dominate the rarefied market in literary archives. This dealer organizes book and art exhibitions through his two galleries in New York. It has been stated that Horowitz is known for his sharp elbows and unyielding persistence.

The article reports on the order given by John E.H. Stackhouse, judge of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, New York City, to law firm Day Berry & Howard LLP to produce the original of philanthropist Brooke Astor's last will for examination on genuineness of her signature by handwriting experts. The will gives Astor's son authority over her affairs. The order ensued out of the petition filed by Astor's lawyer Susan I. Robbins, over the competency of Astor to sign the papers.

A review is offered for the in-store boutique of Thornwillow Press Ltd. located at Atelier Courbet in Manhattan, New York City.

Paul Kasmin Gallery 515 West 27th Street, Chelsea [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Revolutionary War battalions in Georgia and South Carolina ordered their casks of food from Mordecai Sheftall, a Jewish merchant in Savannah who was a commissary general for the Continental troops. He kept every receipt, as was his habit, whether he was rationing beef for hospitalized soldiers, hiring a dance teacher for his daughter or tracking down rough fabric to make into clothing for slaves. ''My Ethiopians are almost naked,'' one plantation owner wrote to Sheftall in 1788. About 3,300 of Sheftall's documents, which his family preserved after his death in 1797, have been stored for decades at the American Jewish Historical Society, now part of the Center for Jewish History at 15 West 16th Street in Manhattan. Few military archives from Southern colonies survive, and fewer still from Jewish patriots, said Susan L. Malbin, the society's library director. But scholars could have trouble poring through the Sheftall trove. Much of it is falling apart. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On the third floor of the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown Manhattan rests a tribute to Esquire's glory years -- a collection of 92 covers from the 1960s and early 1970s that have become, in the museum's words, ''essential to the iconography of American culture.'' That illustrious history hangs over the magazine's effort to celebrate its 75th year. Its attempt to add to the annals of museum-worthy covers includes a nod to the digital age: an electronic cover, using admittedly rudimentary technology, that will flash ''the 21st Century Begins Now,'' when it appears on newsstands in September. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports that a pen-and-ink drawing of a palace in Venice, Italy, is one of the many treasures that the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan, New York City, will show beginning March 11, 2004, when it opens "The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth". Drawings by the Mannerist architect Andrea Palladio; Proposal for a new Doge's Palace in Venice which was never used.

Reviews the art exhibit `Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process,' at the AXA Gallery in Manhattan, New York City through January 13, 2000.

The article reviews the exhibition "Pierre Puvis de Chavannes: Works on Paper and Paintings" running through February 16, 2019 at Michael Werner Gallery in Manhattan, New York City.

An art review on Friday about an exhibition at the George Adams Gallery in Manhattan referred incorrectly to some of the portraits by Alfred Leslie on display. They are graphite pencil on paper, not charcoal on paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anyone who was in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001, remembers how the ash, paper and dust of the collapsing towers blew across Lower Manhattan. For days afterward, there was that peculiar smell -- of burned paper and chemicals and death. That was the air that filled the lungs of tens of thousands of firefighters, police officers, nurses, paramedics, soldiers and civilian volunteers who toiled for months to uncover the dead. More than nine years later, many of those first responders are dead. Many are sick. Some are dying. Thousands need care for illnesses contracted through their heroism at ground zero. America owes them help, and Congress is poised to give it to them, if die-hard Republican objectors get out of the way of the majority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In response to reports that some concerts at South Street Seaport had been canceled because of the melee at a free Drake show there last week, the seaport and Paper magazine, which presented the event, said the concerts would still take place, but not at the seaport. ''Since it was demonstrated that the escalating popularity of the scheduled artists can result in crowds that exceed even the safe capacity of the Pier 17 concert stage, both Paper magazine and the South Street Seaport have decided that the remaining events of the Sounds Like Paper concert series will be relocated,'' a seaport spokesman said in a statement, which was confirmed by Paper. In a letter to Community Board No. 1 of Manhattan last week, General Growth Properties, which owns the seaport, had said the two remaining shows, by the pop singer Kesha, above right, and the band Ratatat, would be canceled. The Seaport's outdoor concert space has a capacity of about 10,000, but according to some reports, as many as 25,000 people turned out for the Drake concert on June 15. It was not clear whether a new stage had been found, or whether the seaport would be involved. Kesha, whose song ''Tik Tok'' is one of the year's biggest hits, had been booked for a free Seaport concert in August, but a spokeswoman at her record label, RCA, said Thursday that she had not yet been informed about a new date or location. BEN SISARIO [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Focuses on "The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection," a array of paintings, sculptures and works on paper once owned by the Manhattan-based art dealer Pierre Matisse and his wife Maria-Gaetana, at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Personal background of Matisse; Collection of his father's works, Henri Matisse; Popularity of Matisse's art; Main attraction of the show.

The article reports on the publication of "Acne Paper" magazine by the fashion label Acne, which is a 132-page love letter that delivers inside perspective on art and architecture, publishing and fashion in Manhattan, New York.

The walls have come tumbling down in offices everywhere, but the cubicle dwellers keep putting up new ones. They barricade themselves behind file cabinets. They fortify their partitions with towers of books and papers. Or they follow an ''evolving law of technology etiquette,'' as articulated by Raj Udeshi at the open office he shares with fellow software entrepreneurs in downtown Manhattan. ''Headphones are the new wall,'' he said, pointing to the covered ears of his neighbors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Because of an editing error, the Streetscapes column last Sunday, about Park Row in Manhattan when it was synonymous with newspaper towers, misstated the address of the Skyscraper Museum, which currently has an exhibit called News PAPER Spires, about that era. It is 39 Battery Place, not No. 36. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SHORTLY before Burrata opened in February, with brown paper still covering the windows, stylish block letters fixed to its handsome facade announced the coming of a restaurant named Hearth (smaller letters below promised ''wood-fired pizza''). With all systems ready to go, the owner, Chas Anderson, met with a cease-and-desist letter from a Manhattan restaurateur who already had rights to the name ''Hearth'' -- hence the mellifluous last-minute christening. Since it is also the name of a fresh, creamy cow's-milk cheese currently en vogue, ''Burrata'' suggests both trend and tradition, an apt sort of shorthand for what Mr. Anderson is up to. Modern, youthful and artisanally correct, Burrata joins a breed of easygoing, well-groomed pizzerias and trattorias that are replacing red-sauce stalwarts in the suburbs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sotheby's asked a federal judge in Manhattan on Thursday to bar the government from seizing a 1,000-year-old Cambodian statue that Sotheby's sought to auction last year for as much as $3 million. -Federal prosecutors and the Cambodian government say the statue was stolen from a Cambodian temple and should be returned to Cambodia. But a lawyer for Sotheby's, Peter G. Neiman, said in court papers that the company's bid to sell the antiquity on behalf of an anonymous Belgian collector was legal under its interpretation of American and Cambodian cultural property laws. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The couple were visiting their twin daughters in the neonatal intensive care unit at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan on Friday night, as they have done daily since the babies' premature birth on Dec. 28. But when they tried to leave the sixth-floor unit to go home to Brooklyn at about 11 p.m., the new mother, Rozz Nash-Coulon, recalled, a burly security guard suddenly blocked their way. The familiar area outside the neonatal unit had been transformed: partitions had been put up, the maternity ward windows were completely covered, and even the hospitals' security cameras had been taped over with paper. Guards with Secret Service-style earpieces roamed the floor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CORRECTION APPENDED When the band Van Halen played in a cramped basement club in Greenwich Village on Thursday, a couple dozen fans clustered around the back door, listening to the slightly muffled strains of hard-rock songs like ''Panama'' and ''Hot for Teacher'' like children eavesdropping on an adult conversation in the next room. One of them, George D'Anna, 50, had a plastic shopping bag containing a program from one of the band's early tours in the late 1970s and several Van Halen albums -- the old-fashioned kind, on vinyl. On the paper sleeve covering ''Women and Children First'' he had written all the Van Halen concerts he had attended as a young man when he first got hooked on the group, beginning with a show at a Manhattan nightclub in May 1979. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bank of America has agreed to pay $315 million to settle claims by investors that they were misled about mortgage-backed investments sold by its Merrill Lynch unit. The settlement was disclosed in court papers filed late Monday in Federal District Court in Manhattan. It is subject to approval by a judge. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The owners of the Mets are seeking to avoid a jury trial in the case filed against them by the trustee for the victims of Bernard L. Madoff's fraud. The owners could be forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in the case. In papers filed Friday in Federal District Court in Manhattan, lawyers for the team's owners said that the trustee, Irving H. Picard, ''is not entitled to a jury trial'' because the two remaining claims arise out of the bankruptcy code. Generally, bankruptcy courts are not authorized to conduct jury trials. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IN Milton Resnick's living quarters, a spare cube built over a soaring, two-story studio space in a former synagogue on Eldridge Street in Manhattan, the monastic iron bed, as narrow as a child's cot, is unmade, a tangle of sheets at the headboard. But on a garment rack in a closet, worn tweed jackets hang expectantly. There's a cane next to the bed, and in the paint-flecked mini-studio, the walls are covered with bright, kinetic paintings, pencil sketches on lined Manila paper and photographs. You could imagine that Mr. Resnick, the irascible ''painter's painter'' Roberta Smith described as ''the last Abstract Expressionist'' in the obituary she wrote for The New York Times when the artist died almost eight years ago, had just wandered out for coffee. A calendar propped open on a chair declares it to be February 2004, the month before Mr. Resnick took his life at 87. On a bookshelf, above the collected works of Edgar Allen Poe, is a fairly recent photograph of Mr. Resnick and his wife, the artist Pat Passlof. They are grinning like conspirators, two pairs of expressive eyebrows aloft. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When Radiohead announced its new album, ''The King of Limbs,'' last month, it did so in the high-tech, media-smart way its fans have come to expect: a brief note online, followed by a rush when the songs were made available for download a day earlier than expected. Phase 2 of the promotion is a lot less 21st century. On Tuesday, the day that CD and vinyl LP versions of ''The King of Limbs'' were released (along with another release of the download), the band distributed copies of a free 12-page newspaper called The Universal Sigh at 61 locations around the world, including three in Manhattan. Although there's little in the newspaper that explicitly advertises the album (the title and a few scattered lyrics are all that one reader/listener could find on a quick perusal), its existence to some extent also promotes yet another iteration of ''The King of Limbs'': a deluxe edition, which costs about $50 and includes two vinyl records, a CD, a download and artwork ''all in a special 'newspaper' format,'' the band said.The Universal Sigh was released at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, and at about 1:20, the Times Square distribution spot was fairly quiet. Three young people, one with an old-fashioned paperboy bag slung over his shoulder, held up copies of the paper and asked passers by, ''Are you a Radiohead fan?'' Most people apparently weren't, because a reporter worried about being 20 minutes late to the release had an easier time getting a copy than one usually would for discounted Broadway tickets at the TKTS booth. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A former colleague of Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund manager on trial on insider-trading charges,told federal agents that he saw the brother of Mr. Rajaratnam remove notebooks from the fund's offices on the day of Mr. Rajaratnam's arrest, according to court papers filed Monday. The trial of Mr. Rajaratnam, who the government contends earned $45 million by trading on illegal stock tips, entered its fourth week in Federal District Court in Manhattan. And much of the interesting action at the trial on Monday was revealed on the court's docket rather than in the courtroom itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

'Miss Nelson Is Missing!' If you go to the latest Atlantic for Kids production, prepare to duck. Paper flies everywhere, most often in the shape of airplanes seemingly zooming straight for someone's head. Be glad those missiles aren't spitballs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Weekdays are so hectic for New York State's chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, 65, that he rarely has time for reading the endless motions, briefs and memos that go with the job. So a big pile of paper goes with him whether he and his wife, Amy, also a lawyer, spend Sunday in their East Side apartment in Manhattan or their home in Rye Brook in Westchester County, where they raised their two children, now 34 and 31. WILLIAM GLABERSON EARLY TO RISE In chambers during the week, the phone rings every three seconds. I need concentrated time preparing for oral argument, so most Sundays I get up around 6 o'clock to have concentrated time until around noon. My wife loves it because she gets to sleep late. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When Syed Hashmi, a former Brooklyn College student charged with providing material support to Al Qaeda, goes on trial this week in Manhattan, the jury will be anonymous, a judge ruled on Monday. Prosecutors had argued that keeping the jurors' names secret was necessary because of the seriousness of the charges. They have accused Mr. Hashmi, 30, of conspiring with others to provide Al Qaeda with military gear, which was to be used against American forces in Afghanistan, court papers show. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The American Folk Art Museum has an edge over other museums when it comes to collecting art made by women. Because many of its holdings fall outside the narrow scope of ''professional'' creativity, the usual biases of art history don't always apply. That advantage is flaunted, as it should be, in the excellent collection show ''Women Only: Folk Art by Female Hands.'' Here you'll see 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century women expressing themselves in a dizzying array of mediums: tinsel paintings, marble-dust drawings, hair-work wreaths, paper cuts, quilts and embroidered samplers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

He was identified on paper only as James Unknown, a white male in his 50s with a temporary address near 57th Street and Second Avenue. On a wind-whipped Wednesday night as the temperature plunged below freezing, two social workers set out in a van to find him, the first of 10 homeless people scattered across Midtown Manhattan they would look for that night. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Calling Brooke Astor's son ''nothing more than 'a thief in a three-piece suit,' '' prosecutors in Manhattan submitted a blistering petition on Friday asking a judge to uphold his first-degree grand larceny conviction, which carries mandatory prison time. The 34-page memo, written by Joel J. Seidemann, an assistant district attorney, came in response to papers filed a week earlier by the lawyers for Mrs. Astor's son, Anthony D. Marshall, saying that a prison sentence for the 85-year-old man would be akin to a death sentence. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

He dropped out of the University of Texas at Austin in 1935 as a junior, because of what he called ''awful grades,'' to pursue a career in the news business, and what a career Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. had. But though he became a broadcasting legend, he never abandoned his Longhorn roots, as evident in his last will and testament now on file at Manhattan Surrogate's Court. The will bequeaths Mr. Cronkite's personal papers to the university, a process that started before his death on July 17 but will now end with the release of materials he had held onto at his office and homes in Manhattan and on Martha's Vineyard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Robert M. Morgenthau sat at one end of a conference table, in shirt-sleeves. He sent an assistant out of the room. In front of him, on the table, was a sheet of yellow legal paper with his handwritten notes. They consisted of a single line. On that afternoon in 2002, Mr. Morgenthau was 83 years old, deaf in one ear, nearly so in the other, and connected to the world in ways that few people manage at any hour of their life. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Envelopes containing white powder arrived at The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday morning, addressed to top editors and executives of the newspaper, stirring recollections of the anthrax mailings of 2001 and prompting the evacuation of some of the paper's offices in Lower Manhattan. The powder, apparently flour- or food-based, was declared harmless after field tests by the city's Department of Environmental Protection, said Paul J. Browne, the main spokesman for the Police Department. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When John Hoeffner, an accountant, filed papers to incorporate a company called Mr. John, he had no plans to specialize in the portable toilet business, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Instead, the fictitious company was part of Mr. Hoeffner's plan to embezzle millions of dollars from his employer, Tishman Construction, according to the Manhattan district attorney's office. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Heath Ledger's will left nothing to his former girlfriend and their 2-year-old daughter because it was filed in Australia in 2003 and never updated after they became part of his life, The Associated Press reported. A copy of the will, filed in Manhattan Surrogate's Court, shows that Mr. Ledger, a native of Australia, left everything to his parents and three sisters. The will offers no hint at the size of the estate, but papers filed with it value the actor's New York City assets at $145,000, including $100,000 in miscellaneous bank accounts. Mr. Ledger's father has said the family would provide for the actor's former girlfriend, the actress Michelle Williams, and their daughter, Matilda Rose. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the arrest of two real estate developers, Michael Hershkowitz and Ivy Woolf-Turk, accused of deceiving about 70 people in an elaborate mortgage fraud scheme in Manhattan in New York. According to the court papers, from September 2003-March 2007, the defendants borrowed $27 million from the investors and $51 million from financial companies for a $78 million renovation of 16 apartment buildings in Upper Manhattan.

Reports that lawyers for two men serving sentences for the 1990 murder of a Manhattan nightclub bouncer filed papers in which they said they had evidence that would prove that their clients were not guilty.

Features the Nomadic Museum, a movable exhibition space with steel cargo containers for walls and columns made of recycled paper tubes designed by architects Shigeru Ban and Dean Maltz to be shown in Manhattan, New York.

The article presents information on the art exhibition by Michael Mazur in Manhattan. For one who started out under the spell of the gloomy graphic artist and sculptor Leonard Baskin, Mazur has come a distance. Primarily known as a printmaker, he is also a draftsman, sculptor and painter. The canvases and works on paper seem to have progressed beyond the Chinese influence to a looser, more open handling of paint and space. The resulting exuberance and canvases are less structured, their sunnier colors and freer linear forms floating in a limitless expanse.

The article presents information on the painting exhibition by Thomas Demand in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York. Demand's big color photographs of things that look real but turn out to be carefully constructed of paper, plastic and other inexpensive materials are as visually striking and philosophically provocative as ever. "Clearing," is a 17-foot-wide vision of a dense forest interior with sunlight steaming into the middle. That things so clearly fake can seem so vividly real propels the mind into deeper waters of thought, not only about how and what one can truly know about the world.

Reports on the presence of Barbara Todres in the court trial of Martha Stewart, charged of conspirary, obstruction of justice, making false statements an securities fraud in Manhattan, New York. Pronouncement of the performance of Stewarts lawyer Robert Morvilla; Consideration of the opening statement of the prosecutor during the trial; Accounts on the four-page letter written by Todres on leopard-print paper.

Suggests gift ideas for the holiday season chosen by "House & Home" editors to appeal to the New Yorker in all. Gifts for under $25.00 which include small indulgences like glass candlesticks, a coffee press, a clown lamp, a desk exerciser and more; Street-smart gifts for the city dweller which include handpainted wallpapers, space saver table tennis; a wall mounted desk and more; Rustic gifts which include fatwood kindling, pine cone candlesticks, a bark vase, a windowsill herb garden and more; Gifts that send a little New York anywhere which include a carpet runner with the map of Manhattan on it, a skateboard with a city image imprinted, an inflatable Yankee Stadium cooler and more.