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...As the economist Joan Robinson once observed, “whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.”...
...The Joan Miró-esque patterns reference González’s Galician roots, says Mesguich. It was in the 20th century that mosaics had another renaissance....
...Perhaps Adam Smith, who famously wrote about the market’s invisible hand. Or Alfred Marshall, whose supply and demand curves young economists still learn to draw....
...In room 55B, across from Dürer’s “Adam and Eve”, hung a small wooden mannequin, based on Dürer’s treatise on the proportions of the human body....
...Certainly some pieces in his collection would show remarkable returns should he decide to sell one day: for instance Joan Miró’s “Femme dans la Nuit” (1940), bought for a mere $300,000 in 1980, or Rothko...
...Adams usually strove for perfect prints of sublime landscapes; O’Keeffe had the instincts of a movie star....
...Meanwhile the only close relationship in the play is that between Joan and Adam Gillen’s fellow outsider, Thomas, and the play moves into blunter polemic towards the end. More subtlety would enrich it....
...“But like Dylan, like Víctor Jara, like Joan Baez, we have to use our arms to wake up our people. Singing gives me a [sixth] sense for my life. It’s like an arm....
...On Getting Better, by Adam Philips, Penguin General, £6.99, 176 pages...
...“When I think of what we do — from John Bridcut’s [direction of] Schubert’s Winterreise in the Alps, to Joan and Jackie Collins — I can’t think of anything that has that kind of range.”...
...However, Ridley’s initial brief . . . was that he wanted her more sober, more Gina Lollobrigida rather than Joan Collins in Dynasty.”...
...But in the Sixties, Joan Didion found parents who had given a five-year-old LSD. We’re not that bad. We’re also not killing cinema. We’re consuming it differently, sure....
...Now her collection comprises more than 150 artists, many of them women, including Sarah Lucas, Elizabeth Peyton, Diane Arbus, Joan Mitchell, Sophie Calle, Cindy Sherman, Rebecca Warren and Zanele Muholi....
...The first abstract figure she made was called Adam, after the prophet in Islamic texts. “He’s described as a very tall guy, so I gave him these long, long legs,” she says....
...officers and staff members of the museum “orchestrated and acquiesced in a concerted smear campaign against Warren Kanders”, the former board member, and that they were supported by the Whitney’s director, Adam...
...include sending a barge up the Danube with the Turkish artist Kutluğ Ataman, establishing an impermanent pavilion by Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye on the Croatian island of Lopud and commissioning a huge Joan...
...Other works include lithographs by Joan Miró and Lucian Freud’s contemplative etching “The Painter’s Doctor” (2006). The majority of the works are for sale, with a price range of $500 to $1.5m....
...“We have Lynda Benglis, Phyllida Barlow, Zarina Hashmi, Joan Snyder, Pat Steir, the last work by Joan Mitchell, as well a beautiful Helen Frankenthaler from 1962....
...Once I did a Joan Baez song at a folk night and someone said ‘You sound like Sandy Denny’: I didn’t know who she was but I went and sought her out. Just remarkable singing and songwriting....
...“Killing makes for a dysentery of the soul, and I had had enough of it,” gripes an unrepentant deserter in Adam Roberts’s superbly crafted new novel about the Hundred Years’ War....
...A US dentist named Lytle Adams came up with a plan to attach small incendiary devices to hibernating bats....
...At Tuesday’s opening Ashley Shaw’s pretty but textureless Cinders was outshone by Michela Meazza’s stepmother, a mean mix of Joan Crawford and Morticia Addams....
...Now, Tate’s Tanks hosts a regular programme of such work, and the 82-year-old superstar of the genre, Joan Jonas, is currently performing in the giant Turbine Hall....
...Holding forth on the right is the famous cartographer Joan Willemsz Blaeu....
...Adam and the Ants’ Prince Charming is a key release of its era. But my copy, with very good condition vinyl and colourful gatefold sleeve, is apparently worth less than £10....
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