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...“Every Muji product is intended to fulfil a single task,” writes architect Naomi Pollock in the exhibition book....
...“Right now someone with cash is in a very nice situation,” said Rhys Williams, chief strategist at Spouting Rock Asset Management....
...Pollock said Abel had presented himself as a no-nonsense operator....
...You can see James Baldwin debate William Buckley in 1965. Or Richard Feynman lecture on photons to an audience in Auckland in 1979....
...The 19th-century Pollock-Krasner House – once the home and studio of artists Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner – is wonderful, too....
...Across just three evenings, 33 works sold for more than $10mn — some for much more, including Jackson Pollock’s “Number 31” (1949), which went for $47mn ($54mn with fees); Pablo Picasso’s “Femme nue couchée...
...Letter in response to this column: Central banker chattiness is a flawed PR strategy / From Alex J Pollock, Senior Fellow, Mises Institute, Auburn, AL, US...
...It nevertheless stretches credulity to link any of Africa’s problems, even tangentially, with the art of Jackson Pollock. Still, there are memorable characters....
...More than 7,000 items were moved, from stained towels and empty tins of paint to spent bottles of champagne and a head of William Blake....
...His first office job was at the William Morris talent agency, where he worked as Hollywood mogul Michael Ovitz’s secretary....
...In her postscript, Nochlin elucidates the context: America’s postwar obsession with (male, white) individual “greatness” — it underlies the heroics of personal expression of Pollock, de Kooning, Guston —...
...The work was sold from the Virginia collection of Pamela and the late William Royall....
...William Reinsch at CSIS, a Washington-based think-tank, gets to the nub of the matter in this thought-provoking piece about US-China decoupling....
...“My art”, the poet William Blake once remarked, “is an endeavour to restore the golden age.” His words apply to Wollerton in an unusual way....
...They jump out of their cars in linen shirts and khaki shorts and start taking photos of the church, muttering something about it being a William Butterfield....
...“Imagine what that feels like for the young black girl who walks into the William Morris Gallery [in London] and sees herself or her mother or someone who looks like her.”...
...The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World, by William L Silber, Princeton University Press, RRP£24/$29.95 Silber’s book is mostly about silver in America, rather than...
...The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth 1922-1968, by William Feaver, Bloomsbury, RRP£35/Knopf, RRP$40 You can’t like him but the outlandish, amoral antics of the painter, as reckless in life as he was fastidious...
...She describes the works as “a comment on [Jackson] Pollock”, who had pioneered the drip painting approach in the 1940s....
...While Elliott signalled Jonathan Pollock would be successor to Paul Singer in 2015, Mr Singer Sr remains the driving force behind the firm....
...The company was owned by the family of Sir William Wright, its 92-year-old founder....
...One of the first lightbulb moments in Coulter’s life was seeing a piece on Jackson Pollock in a vintage issue of Life magazine when he was very young. “It sparked something in me....
...William Savitt, another partner, also contributed Do you want to write a piece for the Financial Times opinion page? We want to hear from you....
...Of course, the old favourites are there, the Pollocks and the Rothkos, but even the holy of holies might get relocated. Architecturally, this is a remarkably quiet effort....
...Rare is the description of an average family with ordinary problems, which is why William Sutcliffe’s The Gifted, The Talented And Me, which came out in May, was so refreshing....
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