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What Happens When a Sitter Hates Their Portrait?

The best portrait painters are part artist, part diplomat and part psychologist—and even then, there are no guarantees.

By Daniel Grant

Vicious Sir Vidia: Out-Snitting the Chilly Brits

A WRITER’S PEOPLE: WAYS OF LOOKING AND FEELING By V. S. Naipaul Alfred A. Knopf, 189 pages, $24.95 If the

By Lisa Medchill

The Eight Day Week

Wednesday 24th O.K. to be gaudy again? Hey, if Gwyneth Paltrow can bare her buttocks in the new Harper’s Bazaar,

By Alexandra Jacobs

Welcome to Lovely Fiji, Home of Gentle Coups

By Philip Weiss

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