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...When I ask why, I’m told that ‘we don’t know who they are.’ So I show you.” There have been a number of convenings since. At the Barbican, visitors can expect a retrospective across four decades....
...I’m trying to make work that at least visually brings people into the conversation,” she says....
...Naked women, he insisted, are in “the grand tradition in western art that I’m part of. A lot of things I think about women have to do with the female body....
...I’m a vegetarian, but my son swears they’re incredible. My other design must-see is Philip Johnson’s Glass House, which was the architect’s home and playground for experimentation....
...I’m sure others will think they’re incredibly unappealing. The artists whose work I would collect if I could are Barkley L Hendricks, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems and Kerry James Marshall....
...“I’m interested in certain histories rubbing up against other histories,” she explains, “and in embedding new forms in old ones, in order to disrupt them.”...
...“I’m not an art adviser who’s taking commissions. I have literally no personal skin in the game. But I will only give advice if you are supporting my museum....
...I’m saying I will support what you do.”...
...Thomas backed off from photographing her until one day, a crying Bush told her, “I think you don’t photograph me because I’m not beautiful.”...
...US-based visual artists Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Carrie Mae Weems and Njideka Akunyili Crosby are all MacArthur “Geniuses”....
...It was, she says, an act of erasure, and “I thought, I’m not going to write a piece where James Byrd is referenced but not seen”....
...Terrie Alafat, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing, said social landlords built nearly 60,000 homes last year....
...Longines has a rose gold version of the Weems second-setting watch, named after the inventor of a 1920s aircraft navigation system that allowed seconds to be synchronised with a radio signal....
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