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The first of those was a 1999 studio and home for the painter Chris Ofili, creator of the notorious Virgin Mary with elephant dung that enraged New York City's mayor Rudy Giuliani when it turned up in "Sensation." But the place that put Adjaye on the map was the...
The 1930s were not kind to paul Klee. When the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933, the celebrated Bauhaus painter was denounced as a "typical Galician Jew" - no matter that he was neither. His deceptively childlike yet technically sophisticated work was branded "degenerate," "subversive" and "insane." Within months he...
The mosquito knows the elephant better than the elephant knows the mosquito. The little guy has to have a more acute view of the big guy: to know his habits, keep out of his way. The odds are disproportionate for the two creatures: at stake is the elephant's comfort...
Analogy alert! Similarly, the rest of the world surely knows America better than we know them - maybe better than we know ourselves. This is partly because everyone else looks in at us: U.S. popular culture has colonized the globe until our movies, music, TV, jeans, magazines are effectively theirs, with...
Citigroup, which in the late '80s launched a Western Union clone that tanked within two years, is probably the best positioned of the banks that are competing with Western Union. Citi bought Banamex, Mexico's second largest bank, in 2001 and has a strong banking presence in India, where the...