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...It was in this environment that Faris Saad Al-Shathir founded Boffo, a local artist residency, in 2012....
...Not only is it a verdant paradise that articulates Singapore’s reputation as a garden-city — the work carried out here to research and preserve rare tropical flora and fauna native to the region is also...
...There are antique prints of flora and fauna from Argosy in Manhattan, and an impeccable library....
...housed in a yurt and explores nomadic identity, and Oman, which debuts with an exhibition tracing 50 years of the sultanate’s contemporary art and includes the final works of the late sound artist Raiya Al...
...For London, Campani envisions Tuscan classics such as pappa al pomodoro, panzanella and crostini ai fegatini di pollo (chicken liver pâté on bread, made the Tuscan way with vin santo sweet wine)....
...The menu changes daily but expect rustic spring dishes of risi e bisi (£21) – Venetian rice and peas with mint, stock and vermouth; or rombo al forno (£44) – turbot tranche wood-roasted over potatoes with...
...Yet Al Alam’s operations are threadbare....
...Flora Macdonald Johnston Sensai Mascara 38°C (Volumising) Black, £26, harrods.com Every year I discover a mascara that becomes an obsession. This time it’s Sensai that has taken the top spot....
...A series of events will accompany the exhibition, ranging from a panel discussion with Princess Deena Ali Al-Juhani Abdulaziz, former editor-in-chief of Vogue Arabia, to a Q&A with Mona Haydar, a rapper,...
...“Bad Cake”, Yeoh’s take on the sin of gluttony, delivered twists of syncopated modernism, while her “Flora and Fauna”, written for Flora Purim, combined fragile minimalism with a firm samba....
...“Hilton Als wrote a beautiful line in The New Yorker about ‘living his weirdness’. That’s me. I’m awkward and comfortable at the same time.” I’ll be darned....
...In his studio on the outskirts of Beirut, Al Kadiri says he chanced upon a rare edition of Al-Wasiti’s illustrations for the 12th-century Iraqi stories Maqamat al-Hariri, and was dazzled....
...She wrote that the Emperor Jahangir stationed an agent in Goa to scout ships for specimens of unusual fauna and flora, from zebras to birds, which were then sent to the court to be marvelled at and painted...
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...This week Garratt completed his fourth huge landscape, each displayed outdoors, where it was created over a two-week period; together they transform Tresco into a sort of giant al fresco gallery....
...These include “Flora and Fauna”, a performance piece made in 2007 in the centre of Abha, a southern Saudi city....
...Every year from 1998 to 2005, the founder of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed bin al-Nahyan, sponsored a garden, while the Ishihara Kazuyuki Design Laboratory from Japan has created six gardens, with...
...The Sydney art scene fizzed with arguments about what form Australian art should take, as arch-conservatives such as the figurative artist Norman Lindsay railed against Picasso, Matisse et al....
...The trees used by Brown, Repton et al were predominantly native species planted in vast numbers, with exotics used more sparingly....
...In Cairo, the AKTC has used the site of a 500-year-old dump to create a 30-hectare green space, the Al-Azhar Park, which opened in 2005....
...Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora died at Lockerbie, called Megrahi’s death a “very sad event”....
...AL Kennedy’s sixth novel ‘The Blue Book’ is longlisted for the Orange Prize...
...Jabal al Akhdar mountains are a sea of roses every spring)....
...It is polemical – Swire, like many, believes al-Megrahi’s conviction was unsafe – yet it is also a study of loss and parenthood....
...Jim Swire, who lost his daughter Flora in the bombing, said he did not believe Mr Meghrahi was guilty, adding: “The sooner he is back with his family, the better.”...
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