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...Kerry James Marshall, the most influential African-American painter, has commented that white viewers still rarely respond to black art as universal: while black viewers’ empathy with art’s white figures...
...You can have the same coat, and give it a totally different look,” comments co-founder Sabrina Marshall....
...In 2018 Marshall’s “Past Times”, black figures picnicking and boating in reference to Monet’s “Déjeuner sur l’herbe” and river idylls, sold to rapper P Diddy for $21mn....
...David Pilling I mean, Africa is not the only region of the world to be guilty of white elephant projects....
...In Round 11, Caruana and Ding opened in the Spanish Game, working their way through its subspecies the Morphy Defence, the Closed Ruy López and the Anti-Marshall....
...I didn’t have to travel far to reach one of Labour’s lost heartlands, just a 20-minute journey from the centre of Durham to the constituency of Bishop Auckland....
...The Faangs will continue to outperform as the focus shifts to tensions with China and the EU once again,” says Graham Bishop, chief investment officer of Heartwood Investment Management....
...Job moves MUFG Securities Emea has appointed Marshall Bailey as its board chairman, a position he will formally assume in September pending regulatory approval....
...The names adorned on the stores — B Altman, Stern’s, Marshall Field’s, Lord & Taylor — were known in households across the country....
...The S&P 500 ended 0.3 per cent lower and fell for a third consecutive session. That was its longest losing streak since December 24....
...Speaking on Friday the US president said “meeting with Xi at a minimum will be productive”, while his Chinese counterpart voiced criticism of protectionist behaviour, which will make White House trade hawks...
...The work joins Marshall’s iconic series depicting black figures in imagined scenes of leisure and pleasure, including the picnic “Past Times”, sold to rapper P Diddy in May for $21.1m — record for a living...
...In May, his painting “Past Times” (1997) was sold to Sean Combs, or P Diddy, for $21.1m at Sotheby’s, making Marshall the most expensive living African-American artist....
...Between polling day and the end of 2016, the S&P 500 healthcare sector lagged behind the broader benchmark, rising less than 1 per cent compared with a 4.6 per cent jump for the S&P 500....
...The last one follows the investment guidelines set out by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops....
...“It’s the cumulative impacts that are so damaging,” says Mr Marshall....
...(NYT) An American walks into a bar in China… Comedian Des Bishop learnt Mandarin and took his stand-up show to China....
...Christian Marclay is at White Cube Bermondsey, January 28 to April 18. whitecube.com Photographs: Greg Funnell; Seamus Murphy; White Cube gallery...
...Barbara P would have been proud of us....
...“Labour is totally under attack,” said Mike Smith, director of the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University. “And who is it under attack from? The supposedly leftwing media.”...
...Wolseley, Marshalls and SIG lost 4 per cent while Travis Perkins fell 6 per cent....
...“If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black,” he wrote, “you mustn’t seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove a single crow to be white.” Piper was his white crow....
...Jonathan P.M Kigali, Rwanda Philip Stephens: Gordon Brown supported the Iraq war as a member of the cabinet at the time and has never resiled from that position....
...At the Cincinnati ceremony, P&G gave its award for best commercial innovation to Tide White Musk for a marketing campaign in the Middle East that linked the detergent to the Muslim month of Ramadan....
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