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...The deliberate, often off-kilter compositions recall the photographs of Nan Goldin or William Eggleston....
...She’s an expat Briton who worked as a nanny in late-1980s Los Angeles; her employer was an architecture buff whose enthusiasm she quickly shared....
...The artist Nan Goldin, in 2017, described seeing the book for the first time. “The feeling was similar to that of meeting a lover or that I had found a brother,” she wrote....
...Kender, who is based in Los Angeles, agrees: “Our industry is so familial. We see each other every day for nine months. We are physically close to each other all the time....
...The photographer Nan Goldin has led some powerful protests against institutions accepting Sackler money; other protests led by artist-activists have become a regular feature of the past decade....
...Walker is co-ordinating the programme with the music critic Josh Kun, a professor at the University of Southern California....
...• The Principles for Responsible Investment, the UN-backed network of fund managers pursuing sustainable investment strategies, has appointed Nan Luo as its first-ever head of China....
...“If [foreign agencies] can actually operate here, it will definitely be well received by foreign investors,” said Shan Kun, head of China local markets strategy at BNP Paribas in Shanghai....
...The temperature at serving is as crucial as that of a good wine and it made me smile as much as my Nan’s blancmange did when I was five....
...Additional reporting by Tom Hancock and Ma Nan in Shanghai and Hudson Lockett in Hong Kong Twitter: @gabewildau Twitter: @hancocktom...
...Additional reporting by Ma Nan in Shanghai and Gloria Cheung in Hong Kong...
...Additional reporting by Ma Nan Twitter: @gabewildau...
...As in Los Angeles, London or Paris, big Chinese cities sprawl....
...Its hero, East, is 16 and a lookout at a Los Angeles drug house....
...Additional reporting by Ma Nan in Shanghai Twitter: @gabewildau...
...Gabriel Wildau Additional reporting by Ma Nan...
...In a new year message to staff last week, Samsung Electronics’ chairman Lee Kun-hee urged a greater focus on software, rather than its traditionally “hardware-focused ways”, amid tougher competition....
...Its curator Josh Kun tells me that it will venture beyond the over-familiar details of the singer-songwriter movement of the early 1970s....
...Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic to open Walt Disney Hall, the piece was a follow-up to his earlier Concerto for Water Percussion....
...“If there are heavy sanctions, then the junta will not reform,” says Zhai Kun, of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations....
...Mr Chen agreed to relinquish those powers not bestowed on him by the constitution to Mr Su, and leave party affairs to Yu Shyi-kun, DPP chairman, said Lee Nan-yang, presidential spokesman....
...Nan-Dirk Mulder, a Rabobank industry specialist, says international trade in poultry will probably fall this year by around 500,000 tonnes out of a total of 6.2m tonnes....
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