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...The great young exception is Kenyan-British Michael Armitage: comparable to Davis in holding tensions between real and surreal, as engaged with art history as Marshall....
...As her work attests, Sims-Hilditch, a descendant of Royal Academician HWB Davis (her mother is the well-known interior designer Emma Sims-Hilditch ), is a rising star....
...Unforgettable are the ethereal, mournful canvases in dripping, dilute pigments featuring black figures in eerie settings by Noah Davis, the leading painter of his generation when he died at 32 in 2015....
...She’s worked with Angela Bassett, Patricia Arquette, Jackie Chan, Charlize Theron, Ryan Reynolds . . . You get the idea. But when she was in her late 40s, Cathy decided to go back to school....
...In 1974, Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon reflected this quality in their composition “Bette Davis Eyes”. Recorded by Kim Carnes, it became an international hit single in 1981....
...Boseman made his feature film debut with a small part in the 2008 sports biopic The Express, a drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first Black player to win the Heisman trophy...
...He started with a small but respected publisher, Rupert Hart-Davis, and then made his name at Paladin, Pan and Picador, where he published Timothy Leary, and Germaine Greer....
...Bellini dissolves his calm, lovely figures as they blend with light and are swathed in graceful robes; his introspective Madonnas especially — the sombre “Davis Madonna” with deathly pale baby, Berlin’s...
...The subsequent overhaul involved Greek architects AETER and K-studio as well as New York-based Meyer Davis....
...Yet so intoxicating is Nahmad’s stand, with evocative soundtracks – Miles Davis, Nino Rota’s whimsical, ragged score for La Dolce Vita – and small televisions playing Godard, Truffaut, the French Winter...
...Jackie Allen, an advertising manager, says: “Confidence doesn’t necessarily equate to loudness. I actually know what I am doing and I know I get good results.”...
...The rebellion receives masterly treatment from Walker, a history professor at the University of California, Davis....
...But even before Brown, there was Jackie “Mr Excitement” Wilson, teaching Elvis a thing or two about hip shaking and knee trembling....
...By the time he moved to New York, in his early thirties, he’d played with Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. And it’s all in his music, plain to hear....
...Jackie Wullschlager ——————————————- ARCHITECTURE Critique of Everyday Life, by Henri Lefebvre, Verso, RRP£25/$44.95 Lefebvre (1901-91) saw the realm of everyday life as something that needed to be seized...
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...With their metallic sheens and stylised naturalism, the monumental 1920s portraits – “Mlle Renee Maha”, stiff and enigmatic as a sphinx alongside a giant vase of chrysanthemums; “Miss Edmee Davis” in emerald...
...Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis, Vintage, RRP£12.99 Davis retells the story of George Mallory’s doomed bid to conquer Everest – and uses it to examine...
...In the shampoo aisle, we come across bottles emblazoned with pictures of kung fu star Jackie Chan, made by a company called Bawang....
...“J Mac’s Way”, references the late alto saxophonist Jackie McLean and there is a lovely ballad, “Rose Garden”....
...For comedy unalloyed by irony, the second series of Nurse Jackie (BBC2 Saturdays) with Edie Falco is back, its quality maintained....
...Jackie Wullschlager, FT art critic …………………………………………………………….....
...“I want to do something important while I’m alive,” the hero confides to his shrink Hope Davis. Comes the deadpan reply: “Yes, well, that would be the time to do it.”...
...The shortest, by Lydia Davis (American, born 1947), is a paragraph of fewer than 100 words and I couldn’t see why it had been included....
...Jackie Wullschlager is the FT’s chief art critic ………………………………………………………....
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