FEW sights can be more pleasing to art dealers than the appearance at their doors of Joseph Hirshhorn, a garrulous, hurrying little man with a big cigar. Multimillionaire Hirshhorn (TIME, Feb. 21) works with headlong intensity at his mining interests (uranium, gold, oil), "steals time" every week or so to make a whirlwind visit to a gallery. "I'll be in the middle of a meeting," he explains, "when I'll just get up and tell the boys I've got to go, but I don't say where."
Hirshhorn may begin his tour of an exhibition by...
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