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...Bourque’s neon-light-strewn workshop would once have been surrounded by scruffy studios where the Kinks, Bowie and Rolling Stones made their first recordings....
...L’affaire Raac? Raac-gate?) continues to cause a political headache for the government....
...Also, Office for National Statistics House Price Index US: Federal Reserve publishes the Beige Book Results: ABB Q3, Abbott Laboratories Q3, Alcoa Q3, ASML Q3, Barratt Developments trading update and AGM...
...Pick the reference you saw within: David Bowie’s Thin White Duke? The icy perfection of Robert Mapplethorpe’s ’80s society portraiture?...
...ACE Cultural Tours (aceculturaltours.co.uk) is running a Friedrich-themed tour of Germany tour led by the art historian Tom Abbott in September; details and cost will be published in early 2024....
...Gauguin’s “Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven” (1888) is a Brittany scene, painted with the colours of Martinique, which Sant bought for $2.9mn at auction in 2000 and now has a $6mn-$8mn estimate....
...Her blue-grey eyes focus on the poster for the Sam Szafran exhibition currently on at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris....
...covinovenezia.com Disappointment An invitation to lunch at Girafe, the sought-after seafood restaurant in Paris’s Cité de l’Architecture, promised a treat....
...Harumi has also used 4,000-year-old bog-oak trunks as the base for the creation of trompe l’oeil ponds in which bronze water lilies appear to float and tiny frogs can be found....
...I’m not really a big fan – I prefer indie music or people like Bowie, The Rolling Stones and The Stooges....
...Back to the crosswords The following people are winners of the Monday and Saturday puzzles Crossword 16,425: Bill Stewart, Leicester; R Harpur, Herefordshire; Martyn Abbott, Lincolnshire Polymath 1,065...
...At which point, I yelled three letters at the television: L, B and J, as in Lyndon Baines Johnson....
...Abbott also announced it would launch a coronavirus test that could take as little as five minutes to deliver results....
...In the first category is “The Vertical City”, which gathers Manhattan-besotted photography by Berenice Abbott and Alfred Stieglitz; Walter Ruttmann’s bracing short film from 1927, Berlin, Symphony of a City...
...He even helped a promising young artist — David Bowie — find a manager. In 1969 Bloom was declared bankrupt....
...Nevertheless, his proposed offerings slithered over bare skin, with a Bowie-level swagger, or came patterned with tie-dye, or the curly-whirly 1970s psychedelia patterns that he so adores....
...If you listen to “Reflektor”, watch out for David Bowie, Arcade Fire’s great mentor figure, showing up on vocals about five minutes in....
...And then it broke into the jumping dance of “L’Âme au Mali”, complete with rave drops; frenetic, over-the-top soloing from Chedid; and inspirational rap....
...Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang, La familia by Gustavo Ferreyra, L’ascendant by Alexandre Postel and Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys Boys by Viv Albertine....
...Reading a list of recent acquisitions, Grynsztejn reels off artists from Egypt, Argentina, Lebanon and Portugal, as well as African-American artist William Pope L....
...The three-part programme opens with Satie Studs/Ogives Composite, a rethink of a 2003 piece set to the piano prelude Fête donnée par des chevaliers normands en l’honneur d’une jeune demoiselle....
...David Bowie reworked it as the chorus of 1972’s “Starman”, yearning to escape the sexual restrictions of Kansas-grey England....
...Giovanni Boldini’s swirling Parisian scene, ‘A l’Opéra de Paris’ (1886), went for more than seven times its estimate for €370,000 (€460,600 with fees) in March....
...Then known as Les Bains Douches, the success of a club where designers would dance after their shows with David Bowie and Prince is not easily revived....
.... £5,399; 363 Edgware Road, London W2 (020-7723 0995; ragius.piaggiogroup.co.uk) The last meal that truly impressed me was at a restaurant in the south of France called L’Artémise....
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