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...Lines of Abstraction, 1950-1970 collects abstract art made by women artists in the 20 years following the second world war, featuring works by Ruth Asawa, Louise Bourgeois, Barbara Hepworth, Sheila Hicks, Agnes...
...Only one work flew far ahead of expectations: Agnes Martin’s “Grey Stone II” (1961), which was estimated between $6mn and $8mn and hammered for $16mn ($18.7mn with fees)....
...The company’s 1980 adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Nicholas Nickleby was one of its great successes....
...Arriving at dusk, I watched the Agnes AP Barr, the port town’s Shannon-class lifeboat, being put through its paces in the Cromarty Firth....
...The constitution was written for and partly by Charles de Gaulle, the 6ft 5in tall war hero, the “man of providence” whose very name made him the embodiment of ancient France....
...“This is art market history,” said Charles Stewart, Sotheby’s chief executive....
...And at the UN, European Council president Charles Michel prompted a rare Russian walkout, when he blamed the Kremlin for causing a world food crisis....
...After listening to the speakers, Prince Charles said: “In the modern world, we’ve lost that all-important sense of the sacred....
...Artists in this auction span the 20th and 21st centuries and include Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Agnes Martin....
...I’m often compared to Charles Dickens. I’ve never even read Dickens.”...
...For many years, the catalogue of literary explorers, walkers and flâneurs — from Soren Kierkegaard and Henry David Thoreau to Charles Baudelaire and Ernest Hemingway — was mostly male and mostly white....
...Kenny mentions several saints including Jerome, Benedicts, Agnes and Catherine of Siena, who never bathed and objected to others bathing too....
...asks Uriah Heep in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, alluding to his premature announcement of his plan to marry Agnes. We probably all have. Pears are a paradoxical fruit....
...Agnes Wong, tax partner at PwC, said the stamp duty was a “key” contributor to government income....
...Sehnbruch is a British Academy global professor, distinguished policy fellow at the LSE and a former research fellow at the Universidad de Chile Agnes Chow Democracy activistBY PRIMROSE RIORDAN When Agnes...
...Viollet-le-Duc, the 19th-century designer of the spire who was, Poirier convincingly argues, a committed and knowledgeable defender of Gothic art, rather than a man guilty of “neo-medieval silliness”; and finally Charles...
...Agnès Callamard, the UN’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, described the Saudi legal process as “the antithesis of justice”....
...Even in so brisk a telling, the ensemble is vast — just some among notable turns Benedict Wong as the pickled Mr Wickfield, his stoical daughter Agnes deftly played by Rosalind Eleazar, the slither of Uriah...
...Alongside is König’s own, swiftly organised version of an art fair — called the Messe in St Agnes (his gallery is in a former church)....
...Now in its 13th year and rebranded as Neverwold, the early-August festival will host Craig David, the Mystery Jets and Craig Charles....
...Faced with a choice between the unapologetically Stalinist French Communist party, on the one hand, and the cult of personality encouraged by General Charles de Gaulle on the other, the Left Bank intellectuals...
...Mnuchin Gallery has a booth worth around $65m, including $5m-plus pieces by John Chamberlain, Agnes Martin and Mark Bradford....
...In 2000, Charles Stuckey, former curator at Washington’s National Gallery, noted that MoMA’s and Tate’s rehangs reflected “the pressures of political correctness....
...Agnes Catlow’s “introductory work on microscopy” is not at first named, though there is a clue a few paragraphs later in the phrase “Drops of water, as in Catlow’s eponymous book”....
...“I once asked him what were the pivotal points in his business career,” says Ted Agne, a Boston communications consultant and friend....
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