In Conversation: Maggi Hambling
Maggi Hambling turned 80 a few weeks ago. She celebrated with a party at Larry’s, a bar hidden away under the National Portrait Gallery, and which is thickly smothered in photographs of the great and good. There’s a photo of her on one of its deep red walls, elsewhere it is a rogues’ gallery of celebrities, boozers, mischief-makers, artists, musicians. Some of them her friends, maybe a couple of enemies as well.
At The Table: Jason Lee
Manhattan’s Chinatown might function as a symbolic microcosm of New York; a few blocks of the city that have housed various waves of immigration over the last 200 years, and become a space of synthesis, imagination and reinvention. It’s still a little chaotic, but not as chaotic as it used to be. Chinatown has changed because the city is changing, and people are changing. Its boundaries shifting, expanding and contracting. Its commercial mixtures modulating, becoming either more or less insular depending on the wider economic landscape and cultural temperament.
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