Posts by Entrepreneur South Africa
The Verve and Confrontation of Lisa Yuskavage’s Naked Ladies
The history of art is littered with naked ladies, of course, from Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” to Ingres’s “Grande Odalisque” to Picasso’s “Nude Woman in a Red Armchair,” but Yuskavage’s ladies are, indeed, of a particular kind, and could quite easily be taken for what the artist’s husband, Matvey Levenstein, jokingly called “stroke material for…
Read MoreWhat’s Missing from Belle Burden’s Best-Selling Memoir, “Strangers”
Margaret Ryznar, a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School who specializes in trusts and estates, had a somewhat different view on the prenup. “Our modern idea of marriage is that it’s a partnership, and that would be reflected by dividing his earnings in the divorce,” Ryznar told me. “Presumably she enabled him to make those…
Read MorePutin vows retaliation after accusing Ukraine of hitting student dormitory
Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised retaliation after accusing Ukraine of carrying out a deadly attack on a student dormitory in an occupied part of eastern Ukraine. Six people were killed and 39 injured in the overnight strike in the town of Starobilsk, Luhansk region, Putin said. Another 15 people were missing. Ukraine’s military said…
Read MoreCharmain ‘was on a mission’ to find out who her prophet husband was. Then she died.
To those who loved Charmain Speirs, so much about her death doesn’t make any sense. After a whirlwind romance and quickfire wedding, she was mysteriously found dead in a hotel bathtub in Ghana six months later. Her Ghanaian husband, Eric Adusah, the head pastor of a Pentecostal church, was charged with her murder before being…
Read MoreDana White Thinks Everyone Is a Fighter—Especially Donald Trump
Why would that be? If your parents put you in martial arts when you were young, your parents had money. Martial-arts training isn’t cheap. And a lot of these guys were college wrestlers, so they all went to college. Like Chuck Liddell. Do you know who Chuck Liddell is? Sure—tell everybody. The stereotypical ultimate fighter.…
Read MoreUN says Russian missile hit aid warehouse in Ukraine’s Dnipro
A Russian airstrike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro destroyed aid supplies belonging to the UN refugee agency worth more than $1 million, the Geneva-based organization said on Friday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said 900 pallets of aid supplies and materials for emergency shelters were destroyed when a Russian missile hit…
Read MoreWhy Is It So Hard to Be Ordinary?
Society as a whole is shaped by the relentless pursuit of excellence in every domain. Cars and houses get bigger and bigger. Grades inflate forever. Kids join travel teams, spending hours driving to competitions with other mini-athletes, and parents become super-parents, spending more hours with their children than in previous generations. “There’s a lot of…
Read MoreSamsung workers vote on hefty pay and bonus package
FILE PHOTO – Head of Samsung Electronics Co.’s device solutions division’s people team Yeo Myeong-gu (L) and chief of Samsung’s largest labor union Choi Seung-ho (R) hold hands with Labor Minister Kim Young-hoon at the Gyeonggi District Employment and Labor Office in Suwon, Seoul, after reaching an agreement on a wage deal a day before…
Read More2027 Volvo EX60 First Drive Review: A Great Volvo First
Image: Volvo BARCELONA, Spain-Smart seatbelts, smarter pricing, and… a crab bucket? The 2027 Volvo EX60 is the brand’s latest all-electric SUV, and it will touch down this summer boasting a whole lot of cleverness. The brand that gave us the seatbelt has now upgraded it, and it arrives in a vehicle that boasts some of…
Read MoreUK net migration halves in 2025 in boost for beleaguered Starmer
Net migration to the United Kingdom fell last year by nearly half to 171,000, its statistics agency said Thursday, providing some relief on a key issue for under-fire Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The number of non-EU citizens arriving for work-related reasons fell by 47 percent in 2025, which was “the main reason for the continued…
Read MoreSpain to launch biggest forest fire campaign after record losses: PM
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Thursday presented what he called Spain’s biggest-ever campaign against forest fires after deadly blazes devoured a record amount of land last year. Spain is one of the southern European countries on the front line of climate change as higher average temperatures stoke heatwaves, droughts and forest fires. The country sweltered…
Read MoreAugust Sander’s Enormous Attempt to Capture a Lost World
Still, objectivity is never really objective, and the camera’s putatively clinical perspective had long been used by eugenicists to peddle hateful pseudoscience about the skull sizes and brow shapes of “criminal types” and so-called lesser races. (This history is largely absent from Yale’s admirable just-the-art, ma’am, presentation, curated by Judy Ditner.) Yet Sander’s pictures rarely…
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