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...In one of the show’s opening images, from Carrie Mae Weems’s “The Rivington Place Portfolio” (2006-7), the artist haunts the British Museum portico in a spectral black dress....
...Nellie Mae Rowe’s “Pocketbook” (1982), in paint and pencil, was her final drawing after a cancer diagnosis, its indigo purse aglow with memories....
...It bought the rest of the business two years later, at the height of the financial crisis, and was immediately hit by losses on auto loans and investments in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-backed...
...In a paper-cut silhouette by Kara Walker. In the dazzling, 24ct-gold gilded painting by British-Liberian artist Lina Iris Viktor — bought through black Chicago gallerist Mariane Ibrahim....
...US-based visual artists Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Carrie Mae Weems and Njideka Akunyili Crosby are all MacArthur “Geniuses”....
...(Walker did not respond to requests for comment and Sparks declined to comment.)...
...and Carrie Mae Weems....
...The easterly city of Dhahran, home to Aramco, Saudi’s national oil company, provides access to the alcoholic relief of neighbouring Bahrain, via a 15-mile causeway nicknamed the Johnnie Walker bridge....
...‘Unrealism’, Moore Building, Miami, December 2-6. miami.com/moore-building Photographs: Gagosian Gallery; Ali Walker; Jean Vong; Victoria Miro Gallery...
...Separately, Barclays on Thursday agreed to pay $280m to resolve a US lawsuit brought by the Financial Housing Finance Agency, the conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...“The danger we face is a Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae scenario where government gives the banking sector guarantees and then socialises the losses,” says Adam Posen, an economist....
...Lax oversight was facilitated by powerful Wall Street lobbies and the lobbying of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...Paulson Plan (III): Editorial comment: The plan still needs some work Hank Paulson compared his powers over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to a bazooka....
...“Just as George Herbert Walker Bush was nicknamed ‘Bush 41’ and his son is known as ‘Bush 43’, John McCain could easily become known as ‘Bush 44’.”...
...But like Vanessa-Mae and Church, Netrebko is being marketed to a mass audience on the strength of her youthful appeal....
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