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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 14 September 2019
Cardi B, A$AP Rocky and more support Rihanna’s Diamond Ball

By GARY GERARD HAMIL- the honorees, activist and
TON journalist Shaun King, has
Associated Press been accused of mishan-
NEW YORK (AP) — Like many dling money he claims he’s
kids, Rihanna dreamed of received for various causes
someday growing up to he supports. The Clara
be rich, but helping others Lionel Foundation was al-
was at the forefront of her most immediately met with
vision. backlash after it was an-
“It’s always been impor- nounced King would be
tant to me before any a Diamond Ball honoree,
success,” she told The As- forcing King to release a 72-
sociated Press Thursday at page report in an attempt
her annual Diamond Ball to defend himself against
charity gala. “As a kid, just the allegations.
seeing those commercials The foundation’s executive
on television with the kids in director stood by the de-
Africa where it’s like, ‘it just cision to honor King, who
takes 10 cent or 25 cents to has been a supporter of
help somebody,’ . I used Clara Lionel.“We decided
to think, ‘When I grow up, to honor Shaun King for a
I’m a gonna be rich and reason, and we decided to
I’m going to make a lot of Rihanna attends the 5th annual Diamond Ball benefit gala at Cipriani Wall Street on Thursday, honor Shaun King for that
money and I could make a Sept. 12, 2019, in New York. same reason tonight,” said
lot of 10 cents and a lot of Associated Press Justine Lucas, executive di-
25 cents.’” “I’m a fan of her energy. “Just glam. She’s so glam- like people deserve to be rector of the foundation.
She’s made a lot more than She has a beautiful soul,” DJ orous, she’s so gorgeous. left out and that that’s re- King, who defended him-
that as superstar singer and Khaled said before enter- Anytime I think of Rihanna, I ally the core of the founda- self on Twitter just before
now fashion and beauty ing the event at Cipriani’s just think of just glam,” said tion,” she said. the event, did not address
mogul, and with her Clara in downtown Manhattan rapper Megan Thee Stal- Inside the event, which the allegations as he ac-
Lionel Foundation has with his pregnant wife. “In lion. started two hours late and cepted his honor, instead
doled out money around my book, she keeps it mad Rihanna told the crowd was hosted by Seth Mey- imploring the crowd to
the globe to help support real . It’s just a beautiful she was “humbled” by the ers, stars mingled in a hall work harder to fight injus-
education programs, wom- day, we’re putting beauti- support for Clara Lionel, that was decorated with tice: “It’s not good enough
en’s health and emergen- ful energy out there.” and noted that her grand- a tropical, colorful motif. to have good intentions.”
cy response organizations It was the second all-star mother Clara Brathwaite, A$AP Rocky, recently freed Cardi B stood up for King
for people in need. event Rihanna staged this who died seven years ago, after a legal battle in Swe- just before the event.
The foundation named af- week. Khaled, Halsey and would tell her helping oth- den that saw him behind “One of the main reasons
ter Rihanna’s grandparents more turned out for her New ers is “about the collective bars there for weeks, held why is so important for me
raised more than $5 million York Fashion Week show on joining forces.” court at one table as he to be here is because Ri-
Thursday night. Cardi B and Tuesday, an extravaganza She told the AP her con- chatted with 2 Chainz and hanna is honoring Shaun
Offset, A$AP Rocky, Karlie for her lingerie line Savage nection to her grandpar- others; Cardi B bid a very King. A lot of people need
Kloss, DJ Khaled, 21 Sav- X Fenty that featured mu- ents makes the event a exact $109,000 for a rare to follow Shaun King on
age, Pharrell Williams and sical performances along sentimental one. copy of a book on Rihan- Instagram. He protests so
others came out to support with a catwalk. “So these things get really na, along with a two-thou- much for all minorities, he
the glittering charity dinner, The star wowed on the red personal, emotional, and sand pound marble stand protests so much for the
which even featured an carpet dressed in a black I just want to expand this designed to hold it. whole entire world,” said
impromptu performance velvet turtleneck dress with every year to a different The night was not without the Grammy-award win-
by Rihanna and Williams. a flared skirt. cause because I don’t feel some controversy: One of ning rapper.q

Amsterdam museum presents results

of 5-year Chagall research

By MIKE CORDER studying nine paintings by Meta Chavannes. “That’s
Associated Press the artist, who blended quite striking I think even
AMSTERDAM (AP) — For modernist styles such as though he moved around
much of Russian-French Cubism and Fauvism in so much.” And while Cha-
Modernist painter Marc works on surfaces ranging gall’s paintings, infused
Chagall’s life, which took from traditional canvases with folk references and
him from a tiny village in to ceramics, stained win- surreal touches, can ap-
rural Russia to St. Peters- dows, an opera house pear whimsical, Cha-
burg, Paris and New York, ceiling and even a table- vannes said he was guid- Stedelijk Museum Conservator Madeleine Bisschoff points
he remained remarkably cloth. ed at times by the material at Marc Chagall’s painting “The Synagogue at Safad” in
faithful to eight pigments “One of the things that he painted on, including Amsterdam, Friday, Sept. 13, 2019, during a presentation of
in his colorful works, ac- struck me really was that a checkered tablecloth results of a five-year research project into the painter.
cording to new research he’s so consistent in the for one of his most famous Associated Press
unveiled Friday at Amster- materials that he used. works, “The Fiddler.” he was,” Chavanne said. particularly figurative, they
dam’s Stedelijk Museum. Eight pigments that he “One of the things that was “Using this tablecloth, this don’t tell the story, but he
Experts at the museum used these 35 years,” said really interesting was ... to grid pattern and filling in obviously felt compelled
spent five years minutely Paintings conservator find out how pragmatic the checks. ... They’re not to fill in those shapes.”q