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...Velázquez’s nude “The Rokeby Venus” (1647-51) visits Liverpool for a display “challenging traditional readings by setting it alongside artworks by women and non-binary artists”....
...Belgian warning: Prime Minister Alexander De Croo in a speech at College of Europe yesterday slammed his Polish counterpart for having given an “incendiary interview” and declaring “a new world war in the...
...Another of his portraits “Alexander I, Emperor of Russia”, fetched £175,000 a month later in London....
...pacegallery.com, 020 3206 7613, to June 15 Alexander Calder, Dominique Lévy Gallery, London Just one work here: the two-by-four-metre mobile “Blue and Yellow Among Reds” hovers above the viewer in a dance...
...Today’s highlights include Correggio’s “The Agony in the Garden” (c1525) and four paintings by Velázquez....
...The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez, by Laura Cumming, Chatto, RRP£18.99 I read this at one go: a gripping triple narrative spinning from the Spanish Habsburg courts to 19th-century Edinburgh and...
...I really like Velázquez but the positions are up and down: Velázquez looks down [as if to say], ‘You’re just shit.’...
...“It’s all about drawing, it goes up and down”, Kossoff gestures before the sumptuous “The Family of Darius before Alexander”; his own version is a frenzied pastel....
...In 1658, he visited Madrid (his only recorded absence from Seville) and his exposure to the works of Titian, Veronese, Rubens and Velázquez brought about a loosening of his technique....
...The biggest buzz was reserved for a newly rediscovered Velázquez portrait which turned up in Oxford last year estimated at just £300....
...Shortly afterwards, the girls’ father was assassinated; their idealistic brother, Alexander I, became tsar in 1801....
...De Bruyckere’s mischief works to disfigure the tradition, stretching back to antiquity – Perseus and Pegasus, Bucephalus painted by Alexander’s pet artist Apelles – of the complementary fit between horse...
...Later this month Phillips de Pury finally opens Oh My God, a show of portraits by the Russian-American artist, Alexander Melamid....
...Alexander McQueen has designed the costumes for the show, which begins previews on Thursday and runs until March 8. www.sadlerswells.com...
...So, this season, Conlon mustered the company’s considerable resources for a pair of one-act works, Alexander Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg (The Dwarf) and, in its American premiere, Viktor Ullmann’s Der zerbrochene...
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