Profiles in Pretension; Academy of Arts Members on View at Portrait Gallery From: The Washington Post | Date: May 31, 1987| Author: Paul Richard | Copyright 1987 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

The 250 members of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters don't do very much these days. Art Buchwald, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Wyeth, Jasper Johns and others of their company meet every now and then at their institution's elegant palazzo in Manhattan. They hold ceremonial dinners. They distribute grants and honors to artists they deem worthy. They're not especially self-important. But once upon a time, in the heyday of the Gilded Age, the member...

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