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...Drag is a way for me to express my own identity; it’s liberating. This is a Generation Z queer Asian woman confronting the viewer....
...Their newest show is in the very different confines of the classical Royal Academy in London, a space lacking in the raw, brutal qualities of their architecture....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...Olivia V, a video editor living in Toronto, started the @indiesleaze Instagram account because she felt it was a decade “not yet neatly defined or revisited”....
...Or a faux-biopic of the classical music titan given to menacing small children in playgrounds. Or a portrait of the super-rich at play, filled with revolution and projectile vomiting....
...Jay-Z, Iggy Pop and Kate Moss....
...Vintage gloves were appliquéd to elbows and the back of jackets — they flashed a V-sign, either for victory or peace. Simons achieved both....
...A complex, almost intestinal plan created a parallel world of abstract canvases, apart from the classical fabric, more intimate and more intense....
...“But I do listen a lot to the works of Bach. Jazz? Absolutely, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis… A favourite rap star? Jay-Z is great.”...
...in 2009 set up the V-A-C foundation to fund Russian contemporary art....
...The Royal Academy’s 2014 exhibition in London, while majestic, almost crushed his work’s humanity under the weight of its monumentality....
...I adore the V&A because it is a walk through the world, a place of endless discovery; and the Royal Academy and the Tate, which have the most wonderful exhibitions....
...De Morgan received classical training at the Royal Academy, where students were taught to draw using correct proportions....
...In Bordeaux they were building in a city of classical architecture. “I would say it’s a very elegant stadium,” Herzog says....
...The Royal Ballet’s Vadim Muntagirov provides a similar example of classical dancing that is unalloyed and life-enhancing....
...both,” he told his students at the Royal Academy....
...her arrival at Jay-Z’s management company Roc Nation....
...Jonathan Foyle is chief executive of World Monuments Fund Britain The exhibition “William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain” runs at the V&A in London from March 22 until July 13...
...Jameel Prize exhibition, V&A, London December 11-April 21 2014. vam.ac.uk...
...Dystopia is a charmless place. The greatest appeal of classical ruins was to know that we emerged from them unscathed, and moved on to bigger and better things....
...By the time of the imperial academies, artists had been schooled in classical poetry and calligraphy as children, and many practised all three arts....
...And he loves this indifference to hardcore classicism, reckons it a signal characteristic of British art, a V-sign stuck in the face of academic draftsmanship....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...But just as cinema’s parameters aren’t set by Police Academy V, nor should rap be defined solely by its lowest common denominator....
...In a move that leant institutional gravitas to Florence’s tradition of cultural excellence, he sponsored academies of literature and art....
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