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Even if you don’t understand art, doesn’t it feel good to pretend that you do?

- By Isiah Magsino

In the mid-20th century, Kenneth Battelle was the hair stylist responsible for launching a thousand bouffants upon Fifth Avenue. His hands shaped the crowns of a who’s who of New York society, including Gloria Vanderbilt, Brooke Astor, and Babe Paley, all of whom have been immortalized with their vertiginous Battelle-engineered coifs.