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Located just north of Tompkins Square Park at 166 Avenue A, his home is easily recognizable by the mural that Van Dalen painted on its façade, in which the artist spelled out the word “Peace” in uppercase, stylised letters.
Any physician who would hesitate to provide abortion care under such extreme circumstances, Bland wrote in the decision, would be “simply wrong.” It seems that doctors who fear prosecution for performing abortions—they face the possibility of six-figure fines, imprisonment, and the loss of their licenses and livelihoods if they guess wrong about what the law allows—merely need to go back and read Texas’s statute more closely.
When we stepped inside, someone in a welder’s helmet shouted, “Watch out, we’re pouring molten metal over here!” We scurried farther into the building, to meet two young men, Alex Grant, formerly a lithium technology developer, and Jacob Brown, a chemical engineer educated at Cambridge University.
Holt’s new position comes at a precarious time in the Asian art market tensions rise between China, the US, and Taiwan, which could forecast unfavorable economic and security implications, and Beijing juggling the a real estate crisis that could prove disastrous.
The sale began with Oliver Barker, the chairman of Sotheby’s Europe, taking the rostrum to oversee the offering of 16 works from the collection of the late finance executive Ralph I. Goldenberg, whose trove of chic minimalism and understated Abstract Expressionism met a warm reception.
Energy Observer passed under the Brooklyn Bridge and continued north, past a wastewater-treatment plant on Randall’s Island, an oil-and-gas facility in Astoria, and a recently decommissioned prison barge in the Bronx.
The MFA has organised and hosted many major exhibitions during Teitelbaum’s time there—including shows devoted to Ansel Adams, Hokusai, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet and Jean-Michel Basquiat—though none was as closely watched as a travelling Philip Guston retrospective that was controversially postponed due to concerns about the artist’s depictions of Ku Klux Klan members.
In the US, he notes, works by the underground comic icon Robert Crumb (who for years has been represented by the mega-gallery David Zwirner), have exceeded $700,000, while the original cover art for one revered issue of The Amazing Spider-Man, sketched by Todd McFarlane, went for $657,250 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas in 2012.
John James Audubon’s watercolour of two passenger pigeons, one of his best, captures a moment so intimate that, in truth, we should not be there to witness it: two birds sharing food, their bills locking as the female bends down to her more colourful mate, whose excitement is reflected in his arched back and fanned-out tail.
Serra was proud of his working-class roots and found a great deal of satisfaction in labour; he later set up a small removals company in downtown Manhattan called Low Rate Movers, together with his friends the composer Steve Reich, the writer and actor Spalding Gray and the artist Chuck Close.
“In fact, I think there might be a certain generational shift in that too; a lot of younger people expect to be able to comment on things.” By the end of the project, the Walker had received more than 28,000 unique responses to its survey, which was offered in the four most-used languages in the region: English, Spanish, Somali and Hmong.
The students’ demands include a call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, withdrawal from the IHRA [International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance] definition of antisemitism, protection of the right for free speech and the right to organise for Palestine, and to “declare and divest from any investments or financial interests, which make the institution and its members complicit in the genocide of Palestinian people.”