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Article: A HIT FOR GOD AND THE DEVIL.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 20, 2002
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Byline: RACHEL HALLIBURTON
IT IS a fair bet that few British people could work out the extraordinary link between the Barbican Muses, the wine industry and black South African reempowerment.
When the nine statues of the Greek goddesses first appeared in all their kitsch golden glory the Barbican Centre, they were so ridiculed that after managing director John Tusa banished them, they seemed face little but junkyard oblivion.
That was until South African billionaire Dick Enthoven stumbled upon them in an architectural salvage company, and decided that they might liven up the view at the Spier wine estate outside Cape Town. Now "Dick's Chicks", ...