Word: london
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thus there has been a rebirth of that rare blend of hot tech and cool aesthetics that drew Ive from London to Apple's Cupertino headquarters in the first place. "The first time I used a Mac," he says, "it was so clear that somebody had paid attention to details that nobody else would have noticed. I remember thinking, 'That's remarkable. Why did they care so much...
...wasn't completely happy, because I wanted to play concerts. There was a point when I thought there was no hope. No cello and no hope!" But after several years of modeling for Chanel, Armani and others, she finally made her way back to music in 1996, giving her London recital debut on a borrowed instrument. (She now plays a 1696 Guarnerius owned by a foundation run by her boyfriend, a music-loving Texas businessman...
There is also ample work to look at by Damien Hirst, the most prominent and furiously productive artist of his generation on the London scene. Hirst has been vilified by animal-rights groups for his sculptures incorporating dead animals, sliced down their middle or sideways and displayed in all their forensic grimness inside formaldehyde-filled cases. The alarming piece that first brought him fame is here as well: A Thousand Years (1990), with its vitrine full of maggots and flies that swarm over the bloody head of a cow. It's a little pocket of hell: nauseating, unerringly brutal...
...sits Marcus Harvey's huge grisaille portrait of an English child abuser and murderer, Myra Hindley, whose image is composed of child-size handprints. Proving that local politics tends to make all art local, it is this work, rather than Ofili's Holy Virgin, that prompted an outcry in London, where "Sensation" first appeared two years ago at the Royal Academy of Arts. And yet, like Ofili's work, Myra is hardly an astonishment, looking like a wobbly send-up of a picture by the American painter Chuck Close. People in New York, ignorant of her crimes, will surely pass...
...Stanton tells it, he never encouraged the nomination. But months later, in a bookstore in London, someone shouted "congratulations" from across the room, and a surprised Stanton discovered that he had been elected an overseer...