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"Avalanche" installation de Tadashi Kawamata (2024) à Dover Street Market (DSMP), Le Marais, Paris, septembre 2024.

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i think akaashi would have up in his cubicle at work

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CHANTAL JOFFE

1969-presente

NIGHT SELF-PORTRAIT IN RED DRESS, 2014

Oil on canvas

213 × 153 cm

Self-Portrait in the Garden at Night IV, 2016

Pastel on paper

48 × 38 cm

Moll by Marina, 2017

Oil on board

61 × 46 cm

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JOFFE, CHANTAL (Estados Unidos,1969)

Esta artista se dedica al retrato y pertenece a la rama de la pintura. Su obra es de gran formato y estilo muy expresivo. Su obra puede llegar a los 3m de altura y el tema principal son los niños y las mujeres. 

Sus personajes suelen aparecer con una actitud que denota inteligencia o personalidad, como apunto de hacer algo secreto o travieso, con carácter fuerte. Utiliza como inspiración la fotografía, y señala que la de Diane Arbus ha sido la que más ha influido en ella. Pinta de manera despeocupada, sin importarle los goteos o que se vea el boceto, y muchas veces con una pincelada tan suelta que las proporciones se terminan deformando. Ha sido ganadora de numerosos galardones. Su obra se encuentra entre las colecciones de Saatchi y además ha sido expuesta en grandes centros y universidades como la Royal Academy of Arts o el National Portrait Gallery.

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CHANTAL JOFFE, EEUU, 1969

Gemma Lying Down (Eight Months), 2018, Oil on canvas, 27 3/5 × 39 2/5 in, 70 × 100 cm

Moll by Marina, 2017, Oil on board, 24 × 18 1/10 in, 61 × 46 cm

Self-Portrait in the Garden at Night, 2016, Oil on canvas, 84 1/8 × 60 in, 213.7 × 152.4 cm

Self-Portrait I, October, 2018, Oil on canvas, 15 7/10 × 11 4/5 in, 40 × 30 cm

Emily with Sugar I, 2016, Pastel on paper, 18 7/10 × 14 9/10 × 1 ½ in, 47.6 × 37.8 × 3.8 cm

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REVIEW

His Own Brother by Charlie Gallagher

Abigail Morton Thriller #2

This was a book I looked forward to reading but couldn’t get into. It grabbed me early as Josh was beaten and left for dead. Brothers in gangster lifestyle have to trust one another and their trust was as broken as Josh after his beating.

As I do with books, I read the introduction, found myself having trouble concentrating so I read the end and found out where the middle would lead. I read a bit from the middle and learned about Josh and Alex and understood why they were a strong unit.

When their mother stepped in and made the decision she did it definitely impacted her family. Abigal’s part in this book is as the handler of Abigail although there were times it felt Abigail was handling things more than the police. Abigail’s motivation for turning her sons might have been worthy but in the end, it probably didn’t work out as she had hoped it would.  

The book is well written, deals with good and evil, trust, family, crime, murder, and more. The beginning were very dark. The dynamics within Abigail’s team seemed uncomfortable and a place where I would have trouble working. This book didn’t leave me feeling uplifted and hopeful and with all that is going on in my life right now, it might not have been a good fit for me to be reading. That said, I believe many will pick this book up and speed read as they enjoy every moment. I loved book five in the Maddie Ives series so am wondering if I will choose to read more in this series or not.

Thank you to NetGalley and Joffe for the ARC – This is my honest review.

2 Stars for me as I coludn’t get into it

4 Because it should be published

3 as an average of the above

BLURB

A man lies beaten to a pulp in a deserted car park in Maidstone, Kent. His own brother put him there. Josh Winters never saw it coming. He trusted his brother Alex. He always has. Detective Abigail Morton is embedded in a fractured source-handling unit on the Kent coast. She’s working a dangerous informant operation against the Winters’ criminal gang. Everyone says the brothers are untouchable. But something is shifting inside the organisation. A crack running through its foundations — and Abigail is close enough to feel it. Getting close enough to use it is another matter. But now she has a way in. Josh and Alex’s mother, Betsy, is willing to turn on her own sons . . .

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Installation de Comme des Garçons à Dover Street Market (DSMP), Le Marais, Paris, mai 2025.

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Israel Joffe, Palm Beach, Florida Volunteerism has always been a big part of my life. I served as a firefighter in New York during Supersto