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...Born the eldest of four siblings in Michigan, Cole spent his childhood in Nigeria, “voraciously” reading everything from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart to Agatha Christie and Shakespeare....
...“This is the last nail in this coffin,” he said. “They’re trying to stop this independent culture . . . [using] the national security law.”...
...The hottest property in Hollywood among Capote’s late works was Handcarved Coffins (1980)....
...Gaps between the top and the rest widened: £13.9m for Peter Doig’s magnificent lonely-modernism-in-the forest “Boiler House” at Christie’s in October, but 95 per cent of artists reporting drops in income...
...In the absence of a coffin, it is believed the barrel was filled with brandy to preserve the body for the journey home....
...Christie’s is adamant the sale is in order and says it informed the Egyptian authorities of the details of the bust when it published its catalogue....
...can put food on the table; where there are good paying jobs with good benefits in every neighbourhood; where our criminal justice system keeps us safe, instead of shuffling more children into cages and coffins...
...We have a coffin-shaped collection pot for donations to our drugs education programmes in the garden, which is very popular.”...
...In a 2012 acrylic painting, a floral backdrop made the ubiquitous concrete security barrier into a tub of flowers — or a coffin....
...“I guess I will feel like [I’m] staring at my face in the coffin. It’s an act of self-violence, but at the same time therapeutic: a good way to get rid of the analyst if only I had one.”...
...“Clifford Coffin used to throw it all out,” says Muir. “Brian Duffy made a bonfire at the end of his garden and chucked all his work on to it.”...
...Christie’s sale on Tuesday was a meek affair without any standout lots, and scored £13.9m with nine of the 36 lots unsold....
...The conductor Michael Christie and members of the Saint Louis Symphony ably assist in giving 27 a strong launch. opera-stl.org...
...A circular aluminium and steel staircase six metres high by six metres across by the American artist Peter Coffin made £20,000....
...The starting point is the iconic “Child with a Dove”; jewel of Picasso works in British collections, this was once owned by Samuel Courtauld and was put under a temporary export ban in August after Christie...
...www.moving-image.info Multiplied Art Fair October 14-17 Christie’s Multiplied is the only art fair devoted to work sold in editions, making it a more affordable alternative to some of the week’s more...
...Nam June Paik (“Wright Brothers”, 1995: $646,423, Christie’s Hong Kong, 2007) and Matthew Barney (“Cremaster 2”, 1999: $571,000, Sotheby’s New York, 2007) jostle with Viola for auction supremacy....
...And more is promised – the next show features whacky coffins, painted rockets, cars and aeroplanes – from Ghana....
...One is Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s detective....
...“In one house I visited, the owners had turned a sarcophagus into a sofa and used the pieces of a lead coffin to line the walls.”...
...All but four of the 114 works are for sale, at prices that range from £1,000 to more than £1m; for example, Polly Morgan’s rotten coffin with little taxidermied chicks bursting out of the seams, “Carrion...
...From the well-read, cultivated Bergé came a literary and historical sensibility; objects such as Duchamp’s Dada scent-bottle coffin (€1m-€1.5m)....
...“There was a great deal of mass production starting then in furniture, so you get thinner veneers, cheaper woods and machine cuts,” says Sarah Coffin, curator of decorative arts at the Cooper-Hewitt National...
...Small wonders Handheld consoles have proved to be electronic coffins for the hopes of some companies....
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