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...Bojagi embodies matrilineal knowledge passed down through sewing rather than writing, and she senses kinship elsewhere, such as with the Gee’s Bend quilters of Alabama: “Geometric genius doesn’t always come...
...“I’m not anti-native, but if we just stick with natives we are just going backwards.”...
...There are quilts by Appalachian craftspeople and the Alabaman Gee’s Bend collective, antique Navajo weavings, and work by contemporary makers — ranging from New York-based Jordan Nassar, who uses traditional...
...The final room, exemplifying the reclamatory and redemptive quality of this art made in extremis, is given to resplendent, improvisational My Way quilts of the now-famed Gee’s Bend women’s collective in...
...The V and M Houses, so called because their footprints resemble the letters, have glass facades, allowing you to peer, voyeur-like, into the apartments, replete with their spiky balconies....
...This week, the base, which is the headquarters of the US Army’s V Corps, was renamed Camp Kościuszko after the Polish revolutionary who crossed the Atlantic to fight the British (gee, thanks Thaddeus)....
...This October, kó, a gallery based in Lagos, is bringing her work to Frieze Masters, continuing the trend of textiles, such as quilts by the African-American community in Gee’s Bend, taking their place as...
...During a drive across the Iberian peninsula from Lisbon to the ferry port of Dénia, chance — or destiny — made the decision for us....
...I’m genuinely spellbound. After an hour on the fjords I’m reunited with my bike in Hellesylt, and pedal onwards through the enchanting valley of Norangsdalen....
...Meiner recalls apologising to his parents for leaving his PhD programme, “but I’m starting a company with three lunatics”....
...’s Bend Quilters Collective – have been the subject of high-profile shows....
...The Parisian waiter bends over the candle at an empty table and fiddles with it. He then repeats the ritual at each adjoining table....
...I'm Gideon Rachman, the chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times, and I'm joined by two of my esteemed FT colleagues....
...I’m not sure what’s more bracing, the ride up or the spectacular views from the top....
...In the Alabama hamlet of Gee’s Bend, however, these patterns have been given a bold improvisational twist by the African-American community over the past 100 years....
...The Courtenays arrived with Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1154 and one forebear, Richard Courtenay, was buried with Henry V in Westminster Abbey, after dying of dysentery in Henry’s tent at the Siege of Harfleur...
...“This week I am getting the [28-hour] ferry and driving down to Portugal to sign the papers....
...Ferries travel to Katapola from Piraeus on the mainland and Mykonos (directferries.com)....
...I need his reassurance; cars are packed tightly between the hairpin bends of the already narrow descent to Florence....
...In “The Emerging”, black ceramic inverted V-shapes rise up from the ground....
...The bridges also give me a reference as I’m pushed by the tide. The East River isn’t a river at all but a tidal channel; its flow reverses often, while the current changes as it narrows and bends....
...Kelton’s basic pitch is this: I’m an economist, and I’m here to tell you that what you want is OK....
...Forget the far more popular Mount Teide on Tenerife, take the ferry west and go ride a real monster....
...But I do my best Steven Gerrard for her, because I’m a patriot. And, anyway, she is from Maine. No one from Maine knows what a Scouse accent sounds like. But she does....
...Mayor Luigi Brugnaro has introduced measures for residents, such as priority on the vaporetto ferries and better waste management....
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