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Goodwood’s new draw? Contemporary art

2 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Victoria Woodcock

In the grandly layered Large Library at Goodwood House in West Sussex, Charles Gordon-Lennox is casting his mind back to his earliest memory of his family art collection. “Probably my grandfather telling me that the Canalettos were very valuable – very important, very valuable,” says the dapper Duke of Richmond and Gordon with a grin. Clad in a caramel-coloured suit and wearing a pair of round-framed tortoiseshell glasses, the 70-year-old is in characteristically energetic mood.
Goodwood’s new draw? Contemporary art

2 weeks ago | ft.com | Victoria Woodcock

In the grandly layered Large Library at Goodwood House in West Sussex, Charles Gordon-Lennox is casting his mind back to his earliest...
The crafted home: darkly romantic mirrors that marry gilding and bas-relief sculpture

4 weeks ago | ft.com | Victoria Woodcock

“We’ve been trying to tread a line between romantic notions of countryside and its slightly darker side,” says Emma Peascod, pointing to...
Raphael Navot’s barefoot luxury

1 month ago | ft.com | Victoria Woodcock

“We’re not allowed to call it an office,” Raphael Navot smiles as he looks around the Paris headquarters of his eponymous design studio:...
14 ways to spend it in May

1 month ago | ft.com | Inès Cross |Aoife Murray |Ellie Pithers |Sara Semic |Baya Simons |Marion Willingham | +1 more

BUY Willy Chavarria teams up with Adidas Willy Chavarria, the Mexican-American designer known for an aesthetic that draws on streetwear...
CMV serostatus is associated with improved survival and delayed toxicity onset following anti-PD-1 checkpoint blockade - Nature Medicine

1 month ago | nature.com | Martin Little |Orion Tong |Bo Sun |Lea Cohen |James Gilchrist |Alex Mentzer | +3 more

AbstractCytomegalovirus (CMV) is a globally endemic latent herpes virus that profoundly impacts T cell immunity. We investigated the oncological consequences of CMV infection across 341 prospectively recruited patients receiving immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) for melanoma. CMV+ patients with metastatic melanoma (MM) have higher lymphocyte counts, reduced neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio and divergent CD8+ T cell gene expression.
Artist Lucas Arruda: ‘I take the rainforest atmosphere and bring it to São Paulo’

1 month ago | ft.com | Victoria Woodcock

In the hip São Paulo district of Pinheiros, there was one specific street that artist Lucas Arruda had in mind for his home.
Inside Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo’s rise to art-world stardom

1 month ago | news8000.com | Victoria Woodcock

London (CNN) — Amoako Boafo is in a buoyant mood. The 40-year-old Ghanaian painter is about to open his first London show, “I Do Not Come to You by Chance,” at a UK outpost of the American mega-gallery, Gagosian. It’s an exhibition showcasing a new body of figurative paintings –– joyful, empowering portrayals of Black men and women, wrought in his distinctive lionized style and pairing fingertip-painting with paper-transferred patterns and blocks of color.
Inside Ghanian painter Amoako Boafo’s rise to art-world stardom | CNN

1 month ago | cnn.com | Victoria Woodcock

London CNN — Amoako Boafo is in a buoyant mood. The 40-year-old Ghanian painter is about to open his first London show, “I Do Not Come to You by Chance,” at a UK outpost of the American mega-gallery, Gagosian. It’s an exhibition showcasing a new body of figurative paintings –– joyful, empowering portrayals of Black men and women, wrought in his distinctive lionized style and pairing fingertip-painting with paper-transferred patterns and blocks of color.
Catch ’em all! How Pokémon cards came to fetch millions

1 month ago | ft.com | Victoria Woodcock

“This is the most iconic Pokémon card of all time,” says Roy Raftery, holding up a small, brightly coloured trading card depicting a...