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...It is impelled by beauty, framed in the beauty of its groundwork and set off by the beauty of the flowers and shapes of each season....
...Drawing on insights from the author’s years covering the clean-energy transition, the book provides a ground-level account of the trade-offs facing the industry and policymakers....
...In 2018, grime icon Wiley, was awarded an MBE by Prince William. Last year, former US president Barack Obama listed tracks from Stormzy, Dave and Central Cee on his annual playlist....
...Boafo’s rise came after Kehinde Wiley, the African-American artist best known for his portrait of Barack Obama, saw his pictures on Instagram and tipped off the galleries he works with....
...Wiley and Nkoth met in 2019, when Nkoth was in the final year of his MFA at Hunter College....
...“Know Me From” was dated by its homage to Wiley, the embattled godfather of grime later savaged in “Wiley Flow”....
...When I visited Keith Wiley’s superb naturalistic garden, Wildside in Devon, he had planted drifts of crocosmia down the slopes of a newly made landscape, which was planned to evoke South Africa....
...Monthly industrial orders data UK: Bank of England publishes its latest twice-yearly Financial Stability Report Results: British American Tobacco trading update, Brown-Forman Q2, Campbell Soup Q1, John Wiley...
...There is much to admire in The Coldest Case in Laramie, though it’s hard to shake off the feeling that this kind of podcast has been done to death. nytimes.com...
...New Drama and the Rubell Museum, which they claim will “revolutionise how audiences interact with visual and performing art” — via new works from six playwrights inspired by the work of artists Kehinde Wiley...
...“While new policies and recruitment practices are welcome, more needs to be done to shake off legacy issues that have long hindered the industry from progressing on diversity.”...
...“I was kicked off committees, I was told this was an ‘attempt to accrue power’,” she says....
...“So I didn’t see it as dropping out, I just thought I was taking time off.”...
...But he himself has not thought or read enough about the history of UK race relations to pull it off. Instead, Owolade relies heavily on his own personal experiences to drive his arguments....
...Hats off to the Copenhagen collector and private museum owner Jens Faurschou who on Tuesday bought Jeff Koons’s “Balloon Monkey (Magenta)” (2006-13) for £8.6mn (£10.1mn with fees)....
...“I’m not checking off a box, and I’m not trying to prove that I am showing diverse perspectives,” she says. “I am a diverse perspective.”...
...He has this ability to sort of disarm and make you feel comfortable immediately . . . ” He trails off for a few seconds. “With Obama it feels less about you and more about him....
...Results: Allbirds Q4, Aviva FY, Deutsche Post DHL FY, Domino’s Pizza Group plc FY, DS Smith Q3 trading update, Entain FY, Gap Q4, Geox FY, Hammerson FY, Hugo Boss FY, Informa FY, JCDecaux FY, JD.com Q4, John Wiley...
...There’s always somebody better off than you and there is always somebody worse off. It is a very middle-class way of looking at who you are and staying grounded....
...And finally Two recent exhibition openings in London are worth visiting: Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery, and Miquel Barceló at Thaddaeus Ropac....
...There’s money off with partner retailers. And they’ll hold tables at swanky restaurants. Meaning you’ll nearly always get a reservation if you book through the concierge....
...Left Is Not Woke by Susan Neiman (Polity/Wiley)US philosopher Neiman warns of the dangers of conflating the left with wokeism — and argues that the latter threatens to undermine the goals and guiding principles...
...“A little bit hippie, a little bit hobo, a little bit surfer bum,” Wiley says, and against the Gainsborough, “squaring off. But nothing’s resolved.”...
...Banker’s acceptances can be used as the archetypal alchemical off-balance-sheet cash generator: a bank receives cash via a collateral downpayment from a client in exchange for an off-balance sheet guarantee...
...The New Economics: A Manifestoby Steve Keen, Polity £12.99/Wiley $14 Keen is one of the world’s leading heterodox economists....
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