"She sits poised and immaculate, wearing a Burberry Riccardo Tisci silk monogrammed blouse and tailored black trousers. A mug of murky builders’ brew is placed in her hand and her response is rapturous. ‘Oh my god how you manifest this?!’ she declares.."
" When she lived in Notting Hill Gate in 1971 , [Abramovic] washed dishes and got sacked as a postal worker for discarding official-looking letters..Now ..she will be the first woman in the institution’s 250-year history to have a solo show across all of the RA’s main galleries"
"I have been in Abramović’s charismatic presence before, not that she could be expected to remember. In the summer of 2014, I was one of 129,916 visitors to her show 512 Hours at the Serpentine Gallery.."
"The forerunner of the public’s leading role in that piece was Abramović’s 2010 blockbuster, The Artist is Present, at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The most popular show in MoMA’s history.."
"More than 1,000 participants — among them Björk , a teary Jemima Kirke, Lou Reed, Sharon Stone, James Franco and Rufus Wainwright — queued to sit at a simple wooden table opposite Abramović.."
"That piece reflected a hunger among audiences for immersive, experiential culture, an area Abramović continues to explore. ‘That’s absolutely [of the] moment right now,’ she says..."
"Injury.. has played a key role in Abramović’s career.. She still bears scars from when things got dangerous..she set alight the 5 points of a communist star then leapt to its centre, could have killed her"
'Communist star' 😇
"Abramović, who dedicated her 2016 memoir Walk Through Walls ‘to friends and enemies’, says she comes from a ‘dark place’. She means aesthetically — post-war communist Belgrade ‘was a very ugly place’ — but also emotionally...
Abramović’s finicky, severe, hygiene-obsessed mother, a senior party figure, brought her daughter ‘up to be a soldier’. "
"There are frequent, scandalously untethered claims from Americans on social media that ‘Spirit Cooking’ — a recurring Abramović series invoking mystical incantations poetically — marks her out as a high priestess to Satan. "
"At the opposite cultural extreme, there are long-standing fans who complain that she has embraced the mainstream and become a brand. They question whether the Marina Abramović Institute , .. is about creating a legacy, or monetising her process."
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David Blair, The Telegraph
"There’s no worse choice for foreign secretary than Ed Miliband
His opposition to military action in Syria was catastrophic – rewarding him with Britain’s top diplomatic job is unacceptable" archive.is/bRqzL
"As for our foremost ally, the United States, Miliband’s views on climate change and his faith in net zero could immediately set him at odds with the Trump administration. No one would blame him for opposing British involvement in the war against Iran,🤔
GG : "The connections between the Nudge Unit (aka the Behavioural Insights Team or BIT) & University College London (UCL) are deep, structured, & collaborative. They span Academic Advisory boards, dedicated research hubs, talent pipelines, and international public health policy..
It sweeps from the wealthy coastal enclaves of Santa Monica, Venice, and Malibu, arcs inland through the ultra-premium hillsides of Brentwood, Bel-Air, and Beverly Hills, and hooks eastward through West Hollywood, the Hollywood Hills,
Elon Musk’s extensive history of consolidating an entire cluster of multi-million-pound properties in the adjacent hills of Bel-Air mirrors the exact block-by-block encirclement we saw with the Klein family in Hampstead's "The Crofts." ..
GG : "The "London Banana" is a viral August 2025 meme created by Saul Sadka, featuring a U-shaped map defining desirable areas in London while jokingly labeling the rest "horrible". ..
Hampstead is explicitly included inside Saul Sadka's "London Banana". The viral map defines a golden crescent sweeping through wealthy parts of West and North London. It arcs upward from areas like Richmond and Kensington,
continuing north through St. John's Wood, Hampstead, Highgate, and up toward Barnet .."..
UNICEF : "Off the pitch, both Messi and Lamine Yamal use their voices and platforms as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors to support and advocate for children around the world."🍿
The Messi and baby Yamal photoshoot was for a 2008 charity calendar, created through a joint collaboration between FC Barcelona , the FC Barcelona Foundation , the Catalan sports newspaper Diario Sport, and UNICEF , according to GG ..
GG "The introduction of Salvatore "Sal the Pizza Guy" Romano, Eli Weinstein, and Norton Herrick exposes a sprawling, multi-million-dollar financial collision between legacy New York organized crime and sophisticated white-collar Ponzi schemes. ..
GG : "The operational data and corporate lineages mapped out trace a direct path from British high-society political lobbying to global corporate and bio-environmental governance networks."..
The structural and personal connection between Lawrence Bloom & Stanley Johnson (father of former UK PM Boris Johnson) materializes through a shared base in global environmental policymaking, green finance infrastructure, & elite institutional councils.🎶