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In Fustat, a historic district of Cairo that was once the ancient Islamic capital of Egypt and a major trading center, centuries-old pottery known as Fustat ware has been excavated throughout the area. Typically featuring a luster glaze in a wide range of hues to produce an iridescent effect, the surfaces were sometimes incised with designs. For artist Ibrahim Said, who was born in Old Cairo and grew up observing the ceramics industry in the dozens of workshops comprising the area’s Pottery Village, past meets present in richly ornamented sculptures.
The artist’s new solo exhibition, Shaping Time at Yossi Milo, delves into traditional craft with a contemporary twist. Said recently completed the inaugural Metropolitan Museum of Art and Vacheron Constantin Artisan Residency, which granted the artist access to The Met’s collection over an 18-month period and influenced this new body of work.
Said considers time “not as a fixed progression from past to future, but as a layered condition in which histories and imagined futures continually overlap,” the gallery says. Drawing on Islamic and ancient Egyptian art, the artist expands up on the definition of a vessel, creating ceramic bodies linked by concave pillars or curved bands in a dualistic dance.
In addition to time, Said explores traditions associated with life after death and relationships between the permanent and the ephemeral. The precision with which he approaches symmetry and layers the sculptures with patterns such as latticework also serves as a reminder of passing time in the inherently labor-intensive process. The gallery says, “His works look backward and forward simultaneously, treating time as material, and suggesting that shaping an object is also a way of shaping our relationship to time.”
Shaping Time opens today and continues through January 9 in New York. See more on the artist’s Instagram.
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The author reveals his mastery of comic timing in his narration of this novel about a cash-strapped actor paid to live inside a black leather bag
The unnamed narrator of Luke Kennard’s novel is an out-of-work actor living in London. His last job was three months ago, he is behind with his rent and has “measured out my life in coffees I cannot technically afford”. So when he comes across an advert – “Male actor required for psychological enquiry. Non-speaking but discretion and devotion to restrictive performance requirements obligatory” – he offers his services.
The job, he discovers, is at a university working under a psychology professor named Dr Blend. There he must strip to his underpants and zip himself into a black leather bag, in which there are two eyeholes and further holes for his feet. The actor is expected to sit silently in the bag during seminars while students contemplate his presence.
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That’s where my acting comes in – I pretend that I don’t know how famous they are. Every actor really wants a leader. They want someone who knows the script really well, has a plan for how the scene is going to be executed, and – in the case of comedy – knows how to make it funny. The last thing any of those guys wants is someone coming in starstruck and wide-eyed. So I use my acting skills to pretend I’m not starstruck and treat them like normal people.
Your Fake Doctors, Real Friends podcast was a real help through lockdown. You were very emotionally open and personal; it was like catching up with friends. I still think about your line that making it in acting, even if you’re talented and good-looking, is like winning the lottery. Do you think that early 00s Zach Braff would make it in the present day the way you did? KamesJ
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Midfielder says there were a lot of tears as he said goodbye at St James’ Park but he is enjoying the remorselessness at his new club
For Bruno Guimarães, it was a time to show his steeliness, to fix his eyes on the prize – even if he knew it would surely mean them welling up. And then some. It was a tumultuous summer for the Brazil midfielder. A fine World Cup on a personal level was marred by a crucial penalty miss in the last-16 loss against Norway. Now he had the dream move lined up to Arsenal but it could not happen without breaking some hearts at Newcastle.
Guimarães admits he lay awake at night as the emotions swirled. How could he leave Newcastle, the club where he made so many connections and enjoyed so many highs after joining from Lyon in January 2022? There were the Champions League qualifications and, above all, the Carabao Cup triumph in 2025 that ended a 70-year wait for a domestic trophy. On the other hand, how could he resist Arsenal and the prospect of competing regularly for the game’s top honours?
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And everybody is your friend and wants to take your picture. For money of course.
Here we are in the small temple of Abu Simbel. Mr. Saddat, who took our picture told us we were now Ramses II and Nefertati, we had fun.
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De provincie Limburg kreeg vorige week de titel ‘slimste regio ter wereld’ van het Intelligent Community Forum (ICF). De jury roemt de oprichting van vier Brightlands-campussen die voor meer kennisuitwisseling zorgen. Wat betekent de prijs voor de regio?
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In De Kopenhagen Trilogie over de Deense auteur Tove Ditlevsen, die in 1976 overleed aan een overdosis slaappillen, raas je van de ene herinnering naar de andere. De voorstelling onder regie van Eline Arbo is zo energiek en intens dat het aan het eind voelt alsof je Tove persoonlijk hebt gekend.
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Het is nogal stil rond Mark Rutte, secretaris-generaal van de NAVO. Naarmate het gedrag van president Trump bizarder wordt, horen we Rutte minder over zijn Amerikaanse vriend.
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NEW YORK (ANP) - Tesla behoorde donderdag tot de verliezers op de beurzen in New York. De fabrikant van elektrische auto's zag de winst in het afgelopen kwartaal flink dalen. Ook verlaagde het bedrijf dat wordt geleid door miljardair Elon Musk de prognose voor de kapitaaluitgaven dit jaar. Dit roept vragen op over het tempo waarin het bedrijf zijn AI- en robotica-activiteiten uitbreidt. Het aandeel zakte zo'n 3 procent.
Socialemediabedrijf Meta Platforms verwacht daarentegen dit jaar nog meer te investeren in AI. Het moederbedrijf van Facebook en Instagram verwacht dat de kapitaaluitgaven dit jaar tussen de 135 miljard en 145 miljard dollar bedragen. Volgens topman Mark Zuckerberg werpen de investeringen van zijn bedrijf inmiddels ook hun vruchten af. Het aandeel daalde desondanks ruim 6 procent.
De algehele stemming op Wall Street was ook negatief na de stevige opmars een dag eerder. De Dow-Jonesindex noteerde kort na opening van de markt 0,2 procent lager op 52.716 punten.
Airbnb is banning hosts from requiring guests to perform time-consuming checkout chores, including washing dishes, stripping beds, doing laundry, and taking trash off-site. The updated policy applies to reservations booked on or after November 20. The Verge reports: Airbnb is displaying hosts' requests more prominently now in a new "rules and requests" section on listings. You might see an "includes cleaning requests" warning if a host leaves chore requests in their listing after the new policy goes into effect. Hosts aren't allowed to sneak in extra rules in messages to guests or on signs around their property, either.
Some hosts pushed back on the house rules restrictions on Airbnb's forums, saying they pose health risks and arguing that guests can simply choose not to stay at listings with overly-strict rules. Airbnb says there can be exceptions to the limits on checkout chores, like asking guests to "dispose of trash in an animal-proof container in bear country."
Some hosts pushed back on the house rules restrictions on Airbnb's forums, saying they pose health risks and arguing that guests can simply choose not to stay at listings with overly-strict rules. Airbnb says there can be exceptions to the limits on checkout chores, like asking guests to "dispose of trash in an animal-proof container in bear country."
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The Krasnodar region is reeling from the environmental fallout of a Ukrainian drone attack on an oil tanker. Officials have offered few details.