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☆ Sara Zewde Sows, and Dia Beacon Reaps
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Hilarie M. Sheets | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When it is introduced this year, the new and varied terrain of Dia Beacon, with its sculptural landforms, meadowlands and pathways, may surprise and delight. Sara Zewde, the landscape architect who received the high-profile commission in 2021 to reimagine the museum’s eight back acres, says the goal wasn’t just dressing up Dia’s buildings with attractive plants. She sees her profession as a field “that has the skill set to take ecology, to take culture, to take people and tap into something bigger.”Her conviction that shaping land can illuminate, rather than merely beautify, places and their stories lies at the heart of Studio Zewde, the landscape and urban design firm she founded in Harlem in 2018. Since then she has taught at Harvard University and is writing a book about her profession’s founding father, Frederick Law Olmsted, linking his vision of urban parks as critical to the future of democracy with his earlier travels through the antebellum South as a journalist and abolitionist.

Persons: Dia Beacon, Sara Zewde, Frederick Law Olmsted Organizations: Harvard University Locations: Dia, Harlem

☆ Presidential portraits: Kehinde Wiley’s secret, decade-long project painting African leaders
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Perhaps not, supposes Kehinde Wiley in his latest collection, “A Maze of Power,” which, in the artist’s own indelible style, casts plenty of light of its own. We’re now learning that before and after that commission, he had been on a secret, decade-long odyssey across the African continent, painting its current and former heads of state. This series narrows the gap further, with subjects commanding a similar power to some of Wiley’s artistic reference points. Tanguy Beurdeley/© Courtesy Kehinde Wiley and Galerie TemplonHery Rajaonarimampianina, the former president of Madagascar, sits astride a horse in one painting. Some might wrinkle their nose at seeing certain heads or former heads of state depicted in such triumphant fashion.

Persons: Kehinde Wiley, Wiley, Barack Obama, We’re, Jacques Chirac, Obama, Sarah Ligner, Black, Old, Olusegun Obasanjo, Paul Kagame, Tanguy, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, Alpha Condé, –, ”, Rajaonarimampianina –, “, “ it’s, Andy Warhol’s, Mao Organizations: CNN, Old Masters, Democratic, Wiley Locations: Africa, Zimbabwe, Rhodesia, Los Angeles, Senegal, Nigeria, New York, Paris, France, Rwanda, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Guinea, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, Democratic Republic of Congo

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Climate change is “relentlessly eating away” at Africa’s economic progress and it’s time to have a global conversation about a carbon tax on polluters, Kenya’s president declared Tuesday as the first Africa Climate Summit got underway. He and other leaders urged reforms to the global financial structures that have left African nations paying about five times more to borrow money than others, worsening the debt crisis for many. Africa has more than 30 of the world’s most indebted countries, Kenya’s Cabinet secretary for the environment, Soipan Tuya, said. Africa’s GDP should be revalued for its assets, which include the world's second-largest rainforest and biodiversity, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina said. “It is an African story, and I daresay it’s a global story, too.”___Follow AP’s coverage of the climate at https://apnews.com/climate-and-environment and of Africa at https://apnews.com/hub/africa

Persons: William Ruto, Tuya, John Kerry, Kerry, Joe Biden, ” Ruto, ”, Ruto, “ It’s, Sahle, Zewde, Akinwumi Adesina, Adesina, Martha Lusweti, Antonio Guterres, Ursula Von der Leyen, lullabies, Sierra, Julius Maada Organizations: Africa Climate Summit, European Union, Kenyan, United, United Arab Emirates, Development Bank, ”, International Monetary Fund Locations: NAIROBI, Kenya, Africa, China, United States, U.S, United Arab, United Nations, Europe, U.N, Africa's, Nigeria's Niger Delta, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Congo, africa

☆ Opinion | Why This Economist Wants to Give Every Poor Child $50,000
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +51 min

What you’ve got to do to get more money from wealth is just let your money go out there and make money on its own. darrick hamiltonYeah, the extent to which our tax code incentivizes wealth and capital growth, it centers on existing wealth and capital growth. $50,000 to the most wealth-poor person seems like a big number, but we need to put that number in context. In other words, wealth begets more wealth, and wealth builds upon itself. ezra kleinI think that’s a great place to end, so I’ll ask our final question.

Persons: ezra klein, we’ve, We’ve, Darrick Hamilton, Biden Sanders, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Ayanna Pressley, darrick hamilton, hamilton, you’re, ezra klein There’s, you’ve, that’s, Thomas Piketty’s, it’s, there’s, ezra klein I’m, —, ezra klein We’ve, Bill Gates, Elon, Ezra, Ira Katznelson, Crow, Bill, hasn’t, who’s, I’ve, they’re, ezra klein Let’s, darrick hamilton Naomi Zewde, wouldn’t, Let’s, darrick hamilton Ezra, darrick hamilton I’m, Arthur Lewis, Natalie Diaz, ” Natalie, ezra klein Darrick Hamilton Organizations: The New School, Biden, Task Force, Marshall, Black, Washington D.C, Federal Government, SEED, Oklahoma, Social, Social Security Locations: Hamilton, United States, Prosperity, America, Europe, Tulsa , Oklahoma, Connecticut, Washington, —, hamilton

Maia Sandu este cea mai proaspătă președintă aleasăIeri, s-a desfășurat turul II al alegerilor prezidențiale în Republica Moldova, iar potrivit rezultatelor preliminare, Maia Sandu a câștigat alegerile. Iată cine sunt cele 11 doamne care își exercită funcția de președintă a țării, cu excepția Maiei Sandu care deocamdată nu a depus jurământul. Bidhya Devi Bhandari (59 de ani), NepalA fost desemnată președinta țării pe 29 octombrie 2015, iar mandatul ei durează cinci ani și 18 zile. Vjosa Osmani (38 de ani) KosovoA fost desemnată președinta țării pe 5 noiembrie 2020, iar mandatul ei durează 11 zile. Maia Sandu (48 de ani), Republica MoldovaA fost desemnată președinta țării pe 16 noiembrie 2020, dar încă nu a depus jurământul.

Persons: Maia Sandu, Ieri, Bidhya Devi, Kersti, Halimah, Paula, Mae Weekes, Salome, Zuzana, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Vjosa, Igor Dodon, Maia Sandu . Locations: Republica Moldova, Nepal, Taiwanului, China, Estonia, Singapore, Trinidad și Tobago, Etiopia, Georgia, Slovacia, Grecia, Kosovo, Republicii Moldova

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