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...Works by Willem de Kooning, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly join Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951, est $35mn-$45mn) and “Le Domaine d’Arnheim” (est $15mn-$25mn)....
...MRIs showed an L-shaped patch of glare in the middle of his brain, like an amateur cartoonist’s rendition of someone thinking intently about a sock....
...Dilettantism à l’anglaise, as portrayed in Chums, would be the end of you. The critique of an elite schooled in select institutions, with all their attendant codes and rituals, is nothing new....
...“In my defence,” he notes in his memoir L’Envers du décor, “nobody in government was interested in the subject.”...
...The French director Agnès Varda, in her 1988 docudrama on Birkin, Jane B par Agnès V, notes this tendency and asks her subject why she doesn’t look at the camera....
...Artists in this auction span the 20th and 21st centuries and include Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Agnes Martin....
...The podcast I’m listening to is Habitudes, from French magazine L’Etiquette. It’s only in French for now, but I believe they are working on an English version....
...A mansion was built on the site of the ruin in the late 18th century, and added to over time, creating an L-shaped structure along the cliff....
...So did the Bettencourt family, heirs to L’Oréal, while the oil and gas company Total announced it would contribute €100m....
...“The bottom line is that we have no more customers,” Ms Parot told minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher....
...And how lovely to re-see the good bits of the Varda Gesamtkunstwerk: that eclectic blending of forms and styles in Faces Places, The Beaches of Agnès or even L’une chante, l’autre pas (part feminist drama...
...Varda’s preference for heroines over heroes — evidenced by later films such as Le Bonheur (1965), L’une chante l’autre pas (1977) and the Venice Golden Lion-winning Vagabond (1984) — gave her work a campaigning...
...Residual sugar (just 4.5g/l) is negligible....
...France’s L’Oréal warned that coronavirus would cause a slowdown in China’s beauty market, an important growth driver....
...Agnès Poirier explains the impact of Paris’s devastating fire in Notre-Dame: The Soul of France (Oneworld RRP£16.99/$26.95, April)....
...The retrospective of Franck’s works, curated by the foundation’s artistic director, Agnès Sire, has also been awaiting an opportune moment....
...Beautifully balanced. 12.5% Sottimano, Bric del Salto 2016 Dolcetto d’Alba, Piemonte £14.95 Lea & Sandeman L&S has a range of bargains from this producer....
...Famously described by art historian Rosalind Krauss as the “will to silence”, the grid is commonly read as a way for artists, from Kazimir Malevich to Agnes Martin, to cage emotion and narrative behind the...
...L’arte immortale di chi?” (What is fantasy in art? The immortal art of whom?), he wrote on the back of a 1965-66 tagli....
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Agnes Martin – my spring 2015 collection was based on her work....
...I’d been painting as I’d always done — painting is my life, l couldn’t do anything else — and then everyone said painting is dead and really believed it....
...And the newly founded Société d’Encouragement à l’Art et à l’Industrie in 1889 opened the Ecole Boulle, which offered theoretical and practical training in furniture design....
...All the rooms are clustered around the main L-shaped living area. The property has several terraces, as well as indoor and outdoor dining spaces and a private dock....
...Les Marchands takes this stark set-up to another level with a faux-naïf story told solely through a ubiquitous narrator, played by Agnès Berthon....
...This world premiere is the latest in Pommerat’s longstanding collaboration with the Théâtre de l’Odéon, where he is an associate artist....
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