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...Williams, an arts patron and collector, says that “Nina Simone’s legacy is what has put people like me on the map today”....
...In conversations with leading painters — Peter Doig, Cecily Brown — his name comes up less than Matisse or Manet....
...“They just felt William Ruto was the better option. People resonated with his down-to-earth approach and economic message and the concerns of the people....
...In a volatile, heated crucible like an auction house, that gets blocked out by money,” says Matt Carey-Williams, Victoria Miro’s head of sales....
...Matrix by Lauren Groff, William Heinemann £16.99/Riverhead Books $28, 272 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...This year, a special spotlight falls on the work of the great South African William Kentridge, with art from the Apartheid era....
...Brown, Keith Haring, Rashid Johnson, Hayv Kahraman, Jeff Koons, William Kentridge, Yoshitomo Nara, Cindy Sherman and Mickalene Thomas are just a few....
...A specially commissioned work by Cecily Brown at the top of the stairs talks across space and time with the epic triptych by Oskar Kokoschka (“The Myth of Prometheus”) now exhibited in the Katja and Nicolai...
...In March, Artists at the Center invites leading dancers to create a programme of their choice: Tiler Peck, a principal at New York City Ballet, starts off with works by William Forsythe, Alonzo King and...
...Holbein’s delicate 1527 drawing of Sir Thomas More’s daughter, Cecily Heron, shows only that the lacing down the front of her rich garb is loosened, though the gentle swelling of her body is unmistakable...
...Prioritising artists worthy to be in conversation with Rubens — Bacon, Freud, de Kooning, Twombly, Cecily Brown — Saville tantalisingly demonstrates the potential of a theme squandered through the rest of...
...Here we are in a charming Arts and Crafts home (elegantly realised in William Dudley’s design), whose owner is a member of the Bunbury Players, an amateur dramatic group devoted to Wilde....
...Here there are some staggering mistakes – a room devoted to dreary Rose Wylie but not a single work by pioneering Paula Rego; tepid Fiona Rae instead of unsettling Cecily Brown....
...Few leading British painters are academicians: not Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Paula Rego. Can the RA survive?...
...The collection he most admires is the William Burrell in Glasgow – in 1944, shipping magnate and philanthropist Sir William Burrell donated to the city of Glasgow more than 6,000 treasures, from antiquitiy...
...When Cess’s best friend William disappears, she goes to hunt for him and uncovers a plot against the Queen in the process....
...Goodman’s roster includes Gerhard Richter, William Kentridge, Steve McQueen and Tino Sehgal. ● Barbara Gladstone: Her artists are everywhere at the moment....
...Ofili’s interventions here are comparable to Cecily Brown’s reprise of de Kooning: only a female artist could have shed the anxiety of influence to subvert macho abstract expressionism....
...Rebecca Night’s demure little Cecily is a shrewd minx who can twist her governess, her guardian and events generally round her little finger....
...Thomas More, his daughter Cecily Heron and his foster-daughter Anne Cresacre, for all their grave countenances, eye Holbein with a nervous, darting intelligence as he eyes them; William Warham, archbishop...
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