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...For the artist, the originals merit fuller exposition in museums: “I don’t believe they should all be knocked down,” he tells me, any more than “that all books I don’t like in the library should be banned...
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...He discussed African art with Modigliani, “but he didn’t collect masks like the Cubists. He admired, but didn’t want to approach.”...
...Rather than “abstract”, which “means you already have a subject”, Jantjes terms this art “non-figurative: you start with a blank canvas and don’t know what will happen”....
...In sum, “I don’t believe nothing has changed.” For him, art opens up possibilities....
...José Urbina Bravo, another activist, said: “There is no way to defend this project, it doesn’t protect the environment, the environment is an obstacle to them.”...
...“I don’t have any illusions about the transformative power of art. Pictures don’t do anything. People do things. You can make pictures that anger, upset, inspire. But they’re not a catalyst.”...
...“We haven’t curated this show,” Abou-Rahme says of In the shade of the sun, which emerged from the duo’s own struggles to gain institutional support for cross-disciplinary art forms....
...And in Maya, she has a very satisfied customer. Maya No, I don’t have any regrets. I’m glad we did that. Very, very happy about it. Chloe Cornish For the FT News Briefing, I’m Chloe Cornish....
...“References within British painting didn’t resonate with me . . . Slowly I started looking inwards.”...
...In Enemy Kitchen, he taught his mother’s Iraqi recipes, when Iraq “wasn’t visible beyond oil and war”....
...“It is harder for European carriers to compete against the lower costs of operations for some international carriers,” said Edmond Rose, an aviation consultant who works in the Middle East....
...At the bottom of a street lined with oleanders, the huge stone house where Baldwin hosted Nina Simone, Ray Charles and Maya Angelou had been redeveloped into a luxury apartment complex....
...And the world shouldn’t take it lightly,” said Maya Roman, whose cousin Yarden Roman-Gat was released in a hostage deal in November, but another relative, Carmel Gat, is still being held by Hamas in Gaza...
...She spoke Nahuatl, language of the Mexica, as well as Maya....
...You can understand everything I wasn’t able to say.”...
...“There’s no guarantee the US megacaps are going to go down tomorrow, just when you look at them, we think you don’t see really good returns from here.”...
...“It was this very conceptual environment where there weren’t very many painters,” he says, which ultimately shaped his artistic approach....
...“[The government] has let them act . . . if you don’t pay they beat you up or they kill you,” he said, adding a month ago that a friend who refused to pay was murdered....
...“We haven’t had a show in Tehran since the end of last summer,” gallerist Hormoz Hematian says, but adds that openings are planned for later this month....
...Award-winning writer Maya Angelou admitted, “I have written 11 books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now.’”...
...These included a contract worth about $1bn for a section of the Maya Train mega-project....
...He applied more pressure and the feeling was, if you don’t do this, you’re silly, you’re stupid,” said Gene....
...In late February, Edmond Franco and Jeremy Gregg bought a new multimillion-dollar condo apartment in Midtown Manhattan, going over their original budget by more than 50 per cent....
...) — The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor (Arxiv) — Laser mapping reveals a forgotten Maya city in the jungle (CNN) — Land for sale (Zoopla)...
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