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...Maxime has an exceptional eye and impeccable taste; and in the span of two years has managed to earn the trust, respect and appreciation of collectors....
...December 14 to 24; further information and tickets here ‘The Nutcracker’, Royal Albert Hall The Sugar Plum Fairy is back in town....
...The eight-strong ensemble (which includes a design from the paint and wallpaper manufacturer’s own archive) spans flocks of exotic birds to florals and large-scale tropical murals, refreshed in 42 colourways...
...Two bridges connect the two; the water body between them is known as the Euripus Strait, which at its narrowest spans just 40m....
...Campbell and Stewart have been on tour with a live show, and tickets to their appearance at the 5,000-seat Royal Albert Hall in December sold out in a day....
...“Custodianship is fundamental, but UK museums are world leaders in interpretation, conservation and exhibitions,” says Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum....
...Gifts you might want to give and cards you might want to send. shopphillipscollection.org Jan Dalley Victoria and Albert Museum, London It’s no surprise that London’s palatial treasure trove of arts and...
...“By the 1880s there were huge numbers of commemoratives manufactured,” says Paul Greenhalgh, historian and former deputy keeper of ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London....
...His work spans the rise of postwar industrial Britain in the 1950s to its slow decline into the 1980s....
...FYI: Race weekend this year is March 31–April 2 Back to top Melbourne Cup Australia’s grandest horse race lasts just 3.5 minutes at 3pm on the first Tuesday in November, but the Melbourne Cup Carnival spans...
...Few of the original Frankfurt Kitchens survive today, but there is one at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, and I make a pilgrimage to it regularly....
...The eldest child of the former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Prince Albert....
...In the opening rooms of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new exhibition, Epic Iran, a hunched, horned bronze figurine greets the visitor with a devilish semi-smile....
...Albert Bourla, the chief executive of Pfizer, for one, has dubbed the idea of pooling “nonsense”....
...Leo Szilard, exiled Hungarian scientist, formerly of Berlin, where he had worked with Albert Einstein, saw it “in a flash”, on a dismal morning in 1933 while at a traffic light on London’s Southampton Row...
...The great acts of British folk rock were all represented: Steeleye Span by Maddy Prior (who sang an uncompromising version of the incest-and-murder ballad “Sheath and Knife”); Pentangle by Danny Thompson...
...Among the artists in his home and offices are Martin Kippenberger, Neo Rauch, Hernan Bas, Hurvin Anderson, Keith Haring, Albert Oehlen, Anish Kapoor, Christopher Wool, Damien Hirst and many more: there are...
...day I went to visit the Manhattan studio of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, the architect couple had just been announced as recipients of the 2019 Praemium Imperiale, the Japanese cultural awards which span...
...The Assassin’s Creed Symphony draws from a series that spans more than a decade, and blends what Gallotta describes as “the epic beauty and drama of the themes”....
...Albert Hill, intensely enthusiastic, is discussing the “obtuse” Housden House, a Grade-II listed modernist chunk of concrete and glass, built in 1965 by the British architect Brian Housden in one of London...
...Other large and very well-established events — such as London’s BBC Proms, which brings a glorious plethora of music to the Royal Albert Hall throughout the summer — probably need no introduction, and smaller...
...This exhibition, a joint venture between London’s Royal Academy of Arts and Paris’s Musée du Quai Branly, is the first major show in the northern hemisphere to span the entire region and present it not regionally...
...The new entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum is named the Blavatnik Hall. A $200m donation to Harvard Medical School last year set up the Blavatnik Institute....
...Albert Cheng, Amazon Studios chief operating officer, is serving as interim head of the division....
...Alphachat Jim Millstein has become one of the deans of the distressed debt advisory business over a 35-year career that spans Cleary Gottlieb, Lazard, and now his own firm Millstein & Co....
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