Care to know Richard Serra's proposal fee? Or what Jeff Koons has to say about his Italian porn queen ex-wife? Dip into the slim, affable Lives of the Artists (Henry Holt), ten profiles from The New Yorker's Calvin Tomkins. Unfailingly generous to each of his subjects — such superstars as Damien Hirst, Julian Schnabel, and John Currin — Tomkins nonetheless knows how to get the goods. Even more personal details can be found in Nicholas Fox Weber's massive Le Corbusier: A Life (Knopf), the first exhaustive biography of Modernism's sovereign architect. Weber paints a portrait of a psychologically untidy man who dreamed up structures of stunning purity and order.
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