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...She organised “Songdelay” (1973), in which performers improvised with wooden blocks, sticks and giant hoops on a massive empty lot at the edge of lower Manhattan....
...The unit was a 1970s desk extension in creamy white plastic — “a solid little block of a thing” — mass manufactured in Italy by Stile Neolt....
...Additional reporting by Sam Fleming in Brussels Letter in response to this article: Why France’s president may yet be proved right / From Joan Hopkins, Montreal, QC, Canada...
...Carbs are a primary building block. Bread. Pasta. Potato. Rice. Noodles....
...The tools students use today — the hammer or metal “chisel hardie”, set in to blocks of wood — have barely changed over the centuries....
...Frank Gehry’s giant spaces and exuberant architecture — the glassy curved building in the Bois de Boulogne suggests billowing sails — proved a perfect match for Joan Mitchell last autumn and Basquiat and...
...The move to a historic block in Tribeca will be “amazing for many of our artists, who have not had a show in New York”, Ebgi says....
...They’re the building blocks of culture. What a relief that Didion’s psychiatrist, and Shackleton’s surgeon, and every other human in history, decided not to throw it all out....
...Joan Mitchell was born in Chicago in 1925, the year before Monet’s death. In 1968 she relocated to a house with lush grounds and a Seine view in Vétheuil, where Monet once lived....
...President Joan Laporta declared the club “clinically dead” due to its mounting debts, while losses hit €500mn in the summer of 2021....
...Its warren of rooms feature curse dolls, ancient talismans and – my forever favourite – a mock-up of the “wise woman’s cottage” where “Old Joan” recites spells and charms to passers-by....
...It was classical meets jazz meets video-game bleeps meets noise music, and the pieces had titles such as “Londonglum” and “Prayer with Strings and Joan Rivers”....
...It will boast a new entrance on the corner of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards, expanded exhibition and multi-use spaces, a chic restaurant and a presence on Wilshire spanning a whole city block....
...And Trevor Dannatt design details also pop up throughout the house: a sleek cupboard from the 1950s (one of just three made) in an upstairs bedroom; painted blocks of colour (orange, green and blue) in the...
...The asset sales are part of a sweeping overhaul of Barcelona’s finances under its president Joan Laporta....
...Last month I bought, among others, a Mimmo Paladino work on wood panel, ‘Blu e oro’ (2002), Sean Scully’s stone block ‘Small Cubed 7’ (2021) and Lisa Williamson’s ‘Bar Band’ (2022), made of Flashe paint...
...The latest collection to hit the block comes from the late David Solinger, a media and art lawyer who was president of the board of New York’s Whitney Museum and who died in 1996....
...Wu was concerned that the tragic event had taken place on site, but after digging around she confirmed that it happened four blocks away....
...The auction as a whole was relatively muted, perhaps because of the sheer amount on the block this month....
...Joan Laporta is not one to mince his words....
...Just a short boat ride from Mahón port, the island’s trail of six sculptures includes creations by Spanish masters Joan Miró and Eduardo Chillida, and one of Louise Bourgeois’ eerie arachnids, all integrated...
...Mary McCarthy said Hardwick could make figures “dead or imaginary” seem to be “living a few blocks down the street”....
...blocks....
...She finds a resemblance between those formal assemblages of naked limbs and the structures of seed and root, but also an aerial view of Manhattan, with its tendril-like streets and modular blocks....
...“I think of [Joan] Didion,” he offers, referring to his own diminutiveness....
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