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...“We have a couple of things in the hopper.”...
...Hopper is the artist who best captures American cool, argues art historian Erika Doss: “Hopper’s cool evokes the transition to an American emotional style of tense inhibition, characterised by control, discipline...
...Irving Penn: Centennial, edited by Maria Morris Hambourg and Jeff Rosenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art RRP£50/$70 This stunning catalogue to the Met’s centennial exhibition draws out art historical connections...
...“It was a bit of a leap of faith for us to make that move,” says Chris Hopper, head of league operations at Riot....
...We don’t yet know the identity of the plotter but we think he may look like Dennis Hopper. The president-elect’s Twitter feed has not been hacked....
...Perhaps the tabloid should now turn its fire on analysts of the kind that quizzed Persimmon chief executive Jeff Fairburn about a trading update....
...The old Whitney’s farewell show, as if to demonstrate it had had enough of modernist gravitas, was the falsetto giggle of a Jeff Koons retrospective....
...This week the talk of Art Basel Miami Beach was the news that superstar Jeff Koons, who has worked for years with Gagosian, will be having a show with another mega-gallery, David Zwirner, in May next year...
...The first Tate exhibitions I reviewed were excellent retrospectives of Edward Hopper and Luc Tuymans. Introducing herself, Tate Modern’s press officer was embarrassed....
...Some of the images are unforgettable: the hip-hopper P Diddy at a Seventh Avenue soup shop; Bill Gates insisting on a cheeseburger; the neocon John Bolton smearing his fries with ketchup at the Mayflower...
...His favourite American artist, Edward Hopper, represented here by “Intermission”, a lone figure staring “out of one nothingness into the larger nothingness beyond”, is like him a poet of metropolitan anguish...
...Jeff, Louis’s great-grandson, greets me by name and recalls my usual order, “two cheese onions”....
...Jeff Koons, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Damien Hirst and Maurizio Cattelan account for most of the sales above $1m among contemporary artists....
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