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...Before I experienced Barkley L Hendricks’ revelatory retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2008, I had never seen more than a couple of his works at a time....
...Rather, he said, it was turning a card over and learning about how a baseball player like Ted Williams had fought in two wars. Later, in the television age, biography gave way to personality....
...Come for Shaq’s enduring (or not) putback skills involving his birthday cake, and stay for Charles Barkley‘s visceral reaction to a douse of confetti....
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Barkley L Hendricks. There’s a book of his work called Birth of the Cool, and it’s mind-blowing – it exudes style in paint form....
...As the world’s largest sportswear maker, Nike has outfitted some of the greatest athletes in history, including basketball star LeBron James, tennis champion Serena Williams and elite footballers Cristiano...
...A few years later, Nike ran an ad featuring Jordan rival Charles Barkley speaking to camera. “I am not a role model,” Barkley says....
...Others compared abstraction to improvisatory jazz, a link implicit in William T Williams’ acrylic painting “Trane”, a dazzling tribute to John Coltrane....
...True, Demuth created a series of “poster portraits,” in which he rendered the poet William Carlos Williams as a golden figure “5”, and Marsden Hartley as priapic tail flower....
...William Corbett, a local criminal, looks like a tycoon in his fur-collared camel hair coat belted at the waist....
...The Show Must Go On, by Queen:“I’m tempted to sing lots of pop at the Proms, just to annoy classical purists – stuff similar to what Amy Winehouse, the Scissor Sisters and Gnarls Barkley sing – but I think...
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