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...Library (2014), which I first pored over in Turner Contemporary in Margate in 2016 — three years before it was acquired by Tate — has 6,328 hardbacks, gorgeously covered in Dutch wax fabric, bearing the gold-embossed...
...“There’s gold everywhere, hiding in plain sight,” Akomfrah remarks of the painting. “I hadn’t seen what it was alluding to, but I’ve lost my innocence....
...The red splatter and gold leaf of his painting “Blessings Upon the Land of My Love” (2011) reference both terrorist violence and traditional hunting scenes — notably “Wild animals are let loose” (c1840),...
...His earlier carnivalesque sculptural installations have included the towering, ethereal “Moko Jumbies” (2015), steel stilt-walkers sprouting black and gold wings of metallic banana leaves — first seen in...
...Joseph Wright’s 1764 oil painting of the founder, Richard Fitzwilliam, as a gold-gowned Cambridge graduate, appears alongside “Portrait of a Man in a Red Suit”, an oil painting of 1740-80 by an “unrecorded...
...Sparkling turquoise streams fed by a mighty aqueduct, lush rows of variegated trees and shrubs: a bearded Assyrian king, in a red-and-gold hilltop palace, surveys his paradisiacal gardens....
...When Sir David Adjaye was awarded the Gold Medal in 2021 by the Royal Institute of British Architects, the guest of honour at the virtual ceremony was Barack Obama....
...Highly polished sculptures alluding to pyrite or fool’s gold form reflective seating for the audience....
...Its heavy bar feels as if straight from the gold rush — with a rail to rest your boot on, and globe lights to illuminate your game of poker....
...His current escapades marry whisper-light titanium bodies with gold through the ear. “I want to keep the viewer, and the wearer, guessing,” he says....
...Waugh is currently working with Maya Selway, another independent London-based jeweller. But she says: “I’d like to see high-street jewellers and luxury brands also taking an interest.”...
...There are a few Picasso references – a Minotaur, for instance, and a dove, and he loved gold....
...The restaurant here – Maya – serves chef Richard Sandoval’s excellent take on traditional Mexican recipes such as pork carnitas and spicy jumbo prawn fajitas and the room is always very lively....
...Surfaces, Maya Angeli. Photographer’s assistant, Emre Cakir. Stylist’s assistants, Antoni Jankowski and Rebecca Coad. Production, Seven Six...
...And yes, I am a student of the great Maya civilisation, but that is not invariably a sign of madness.”...
...Maya Wiley, the leading progressive candidate, came third. Adams and Garcia were separated by 8,426 votes, with only about 3,700 outstanding....
...Newlands’ curator Maya Binkin, formerly of the Royal Academy and Serpentine Gallery, juxtaposes works by Opie with 180 or so objects from his own eclectic collection....
...At its heart was an artists’ book dedicated to the Romanian poet Paul Celan fashioned out of materials that included vellum, gold leaf and liquid porcelain....
...When Joe Biden selected Kamala Harris as his presidential running mate, speculation was rife that the announcement was good news for Maya Rudolph....
...The rise in market sentiment led to a modest sell-off in haven assets, taking the price of gold down as much as 2 per cent to $1,787 a troy ounce, its lowest level since July....
...Other markets are less extreme, but virtually every major bourse is looking pricey, notes Maya Bhandari, a fund manager at Columbia Threadneedle....
...Gold climbed more than 2 per cent to $1,985 a troy ounce and silver was up nearly 4 per cent to $27.49 an ounce....
...Sibande was born in 1982 in Barberton, a “tiny town” in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province created by the 1880s gold rush....
...throne in a darkened palace of male intimacy and exchange, where Ofili’s “Afro Lunar Lovers” (2003), a small giclée print with gold-leaf, is entirely at home....
...post-civil rights US, he knew an astonishing range of people, from Francis Bacon (“a mentor but we fell out”), David Hockney (at the Royal College of Art, Bowling won the silver medal for painting to Hockney’s gold...
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