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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...And Ayana V Jackson uses photography to build “historical allusions” of African and African-American identities....
...Yanagi, Hamada and Leach travelled to the US in the 1950s to popularise the Mingei movement, becoming known as the “Three Musketeers” and, as Kikuchi writes in the exhibition book, triggered a North American...
...“Virgil passed away the day before it opened,” says Ross of his mentor Virgil Abloh, the Chicagoan who trained as an architect and became the first African-American artistic director at Louis Vuitton....
...In a marvellous coincidence of history, Philip Glass worked with Shankar on the soundtrack to the 1966 film Chappaqua, pushing the American to his new style....
...As a result, she says, the V&A has acquired works including the Beautiful ring from the A Beautiful Life series by London-based American jeweller Jacqueline Rabun and an Ebony Revolution necklace by Simone...
...Drummer Keith Bailey’s rhythmic discipline and fiery edge push soloists to greater heights, and South-African bassist Ernest Mothle is an underpinning rock with a full-bodied sound....
...Among the earliest works by black artists on view here is a 1920s self-portrait by the pioneering African-American photographer Florestine Perrault Collins, depicting her with eyes cast down....
...The selection ranges from books and housewares to fashion and jewellery, all filtered through the lens of African American style, culture, and history....
...But it is the re-election of the demagogic Trump in November’s American elections that would threaten the most damage to democracy....
...“It’s the range that’s crucial,” concludes Walker, referencing both A Game of Thrones (George RR Martin called Folio’s edition “a masterpiece”) and the 20th-century African-American novel Their Eyes Were...
...African-American artists such as Kehinde Wiley, naturalistic portraitist of Barack Obama, mingle in the exhibition with major painters in continental traditions such as the South African social realist Gerard...
...The exhibition Africa Fashion at the V&A in London was a barometer of this shift....
...Lessons from African and Latin American fintech Helen Li in Wired writes about what US and European fintechs could learn from their counterparts in other parts of the world....
...New institutions like the wonderful National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington have told stories in a different way, focusing on particular peoples rather than attempting some kind...
...With her businesses Kiverdi and Air Protein, Dyson — only the fourth African-American woman in history to earn a PhD in theoretical physics — amplifies space-age Nasa research to build a virtuous circle...
...It should talk to the Japanese people coming back to Paris to enjoy the holidays, to the American audience — the number one foreign visitors are the Americans....
...(Both groups outperform African-American men, however.)...
...At the Donmar, February brings Trouble in Butetown by Diana Nneka Atuona, a wartime story of an African-American GI who goes Awol from his barracks to take his chances in a world without segregation....
...In reduced version, Donatello is at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie (to January 8), then arrives at London’s V&A in February; both museums contribute key loans....
...The marketing dream of a Messi v Ronaldo World Cup final is still alive, at least for the next few hours....
...The South African artist Zanele Muholi, for example, one of the most celebrated contemporary photographers working today, identifies as non-binary, using the pronouns them/they....
...And so, I started reading African-American history and literature because I wanted to understand race in America....
...But remember that in recent years as the two parties have evolved, Democrats have come to count more and more on not just winning a majority of the African-American and the Hispanic vote, but winning huge...
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