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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...
...John Johnson, who built a publishing empire from scratch that included the Ebony and Jet magazine franchises, and George Johnson, who created one of the US’s largest cosmetic companies, were living examples...
...As a result, Simmons was able to acquire works by artists such as David Hammons, Kerry James Marshall, Julie Mehretu, Mark Bradford or Mickalene Thomas....
...I have a feeling that Henry James would have liked Dawn and Jamie Russell....
...A cover of James Brown’s “It’s A Man’s World”, lithe with double bass, and a guest vocal from Joss Stone, jousting with brassy stabs, on “Words Of A King”, are both folded seamlessly into the blue mood....
...One designer who seems to have taken to heart James T Kirk’s mission “to explore strange new worlds” is Ini Archibong, whose work displays some of the hallmarks of retrofuturism in its devotion to curves...
...As the writer Caryl Phillips recalls in a catalogue essay, he once heard Horace Ové and James Baldwin “conversationally bouncing between Harlem, Trinidad and Brixton....
...(BBG) Archive auction A consortium of foundations prevailed in a bankruptcy auction for the archives of Ebony and Jet magazines. The collection of photographs, art and recordings went for $30m....
...The US public pension fund Calstrs last year insisted two new directors be added — Ebony Media chief executive, Linda Johnson Rice, and 21st Century Fox head, James Murdoch....
...“I don’t know that Juul will own the [ecigarette] market for ever,” said James Vail, director of communications for 22nd Century Group, a biotech company developing lower-nicotine strains of tobacco plant...
...Simpson began the painting several months ago, after the demise of her 11-year marriage to artist James Casebere, with whom she shares a 19-year-old daughter, Zora, an actor and Columbia University student...
...The Palo Alto-based company also said that Linda Rice, chief executive of Ebony Media Operations, which runs Jet and Ebony magazines that are aimed at the African-American market, would join its board....
...“This is where the sausage is made,” as Ebony Williams’s Nurse Ratched-like dance teacher puts it. And there lies the problem....
...The self-aggrandising guff of wine bores always reminds me of James Thurber’s New Yorker cartoon sending up a wine snob: “It’s a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you’ll be amused...
...sentences and short paragraphs, is a bricolage text that assembles letters that Jefferson’s youthful mother wrote, extensive lists of skin colours and grades of hair, headlines from long-running black magazine Ebony...
...The work features an ebony-skinned female artist holding a palette and gazing assuredly at the viewer. Behind her is a paint-by-numbers self-portrait in which the figure has yet to be filled in....
...Now 55, the close crop of ebony-coloured hair is flecked with few greys, the 72-hour stubble is not a minute overgrown....
...David Hartt’s unilluminating photograph of the carpeting at the Ebony publishers’ Chicago offices; Ayanah Moor’s grid of reports from the dating scene in various US cities; Kerry James Marshall’s nocturnal...
...Furniture maker and designer James Carroll, who goes by the trade name Stickman, makes pieces using material gathered in his own forest in the Wicklow Mountains....
...It is False Bishop, of which the poet and gardener James Fenton once asked, “What bishop is there who is not false anyway?”...
...On the board, apart from Valentin, is James Kelly (Damien Hirst’s business adviser) and Anders Petterson, founder of the art data firm ArtTactic....
...A seal top spoon from the reign of James I is also on show, along with a selection of more affordable collections and custom-made modern pieces....
...James Thomas, head of residential at Jones Lang LaSalle, the estate agents, says many people have grown tired of multistorey houses....
...James Barlow, who works in internet publishing, is the proud owner of a Duffer of St George Prince of Wales check suit....
.... €7,000-8,000. www.artface.com/olivia Teapot, Christopher Dresser Manufactured around 1879 by James Dixon & Sons, this silver plate English teapot with ebony handle was one of 37 radical designs supplied...
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