Hints and tips:
...April’s Hong Kong sales totals for Modern and contemporary art at Sotheby’s and Poly Auction were down considerably this year....
...Contemporary Scandinavian designers have a particular proclivity for pine....
...Jonas Merrick has more contemporary enemies in Gerald Seymour’s The Best Revenge (Hodder & Stoughton, £22)....
...Elton was staying with Perrin for the Printemps de Cahors, a contemporary photography exhibition founded by Perrin’s then wife Marie-Thérèse.”...
...The installation-art centre Copenhagen Contemporary is our closest neighbour on Refshaleøen, and I go there as often as I can....
...“I think most people assume that because I’m a fashion person, most of my decisions are aesthetic-based,” she says....
...But the results of his surveys of contemporary America reveal a very different picture....
...Yet, as Fitzgerald points out, this research is often based on small samples and often assumes a universal understanding of “nature”....
...Don’t assume, don’t accept, test your thoughts against reality, question — do the work.”...
...Though we only deduce the outfit’s significance much later, the spirit of its gaudy artifice permeates Wayne Jordan’s staging, which reimagines contemporary Dublin in the style of La La Land....
...“A man ordered to sit still for hours on a narrow stool is bound to assume contorted postures,” Gilles Deleuze writes in Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation....
...I have a collection of ceramics, both contemporary and vintage....
...This most recent concert at the Royal Festival Hall filled a high proportion of the seats — no small feat for a programme of contemporary music in a 2,500-capacity venue....
...Galleries often pitch themselves to artists by offering to assume the expense of studios and assistants....
...Ghotbi said it was incorrect to assume the Iranian society was inevitably becoming less religious....
...Being that the building seems to be a museum, one assumes that the nuns have come to see art or to hear about art....
...The crossover between sci-fi, romance, contemporary women’s fiction and romantic comedy “really drove this new wave of romance,” McLean says....
...It may be easy to assume that what explains this increase in mortality rates between the wealthiest and most deprived groups is simply a larger number of people making “poor decisions” such as smoking, bad...
...Woodall points to Sam Taylor-Johnson’s video portrait of David Beckham from 2004, a 107-minute, close-up film capturing the footballer asleep — or at least we assume he is — wearing nothing but tattoos and...
...It would be easy to assume that A Flat Place, dealing as it does in the currency of trauma, racism and exile, is a bleak book....
...One would assume that some things must surpass all metrics with their expertise and beauty, and yet even the most revered of artists can languish, dusty and unloved....
...Parker’s skill at balancing opposing forces has made her one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists....
...They assume that this will somehow be possible, and focus on sights and experiences awaiting their travellers when they get there....
...“People assume that China is like the US with all the oil and trade relations, but we have not seen them exert the leverage,” Marks said....
...Gideon RachmanSo you assume that the Houthis would not be doing this autonomously, that essentially, it would be Iran that’s pushing them to do these things? Kim GhattasI would think so....
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