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...The writer is director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and a former MP The Palace of Westminster was always conceived as a work of art....
...Here are some key things to see at the festival.londondesignfestival.com Omer Arbel’s ‘Material Experiments’At the festival hub, the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, there will be a range...
...Hagströmer says a major curatorial influence has been London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. “We call it the mothership,” she says....
...Albert Ho, part of the group on trial, had called Mr Perry’s participation “shameful”. The group was accused of organising unlawful assemblies during the protests....
...It’s unlikely he’ll need to wait that long: an example of the glass is already in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection....
...In one corner, Albert points out their oldest tree, a Holmer perry pear planted in 1825....
...Rolls’ most pressing problem is David Perry at JP Morgan Cazenove, who continues to portend for a rescue rights issue at best and full nationalisation at worst....
...It is impossible, however, to deny that humour is important to the British — a fact that is well illustrated by the Victoria and Albert Museum’s decision to extend its British Galleries into the 20th century...
...So it diversified into floor and roof tiles, subways and swimming pool linings during the 1960s, and to restoration projects like London’s Royal Albert Hall and Natural History Museum....
...At 1,440 square feet, Albert Woodfox’s new house is nearly 27 times the size of the place he called home for more than four decades....
...The new museum will have three times as much display space and will be within walking distance of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum....
...All that remained of the art prints business he had built up with his brothers, Peregrine (Perry) and Quentin: sludgey charred embers....
...In 1989, he moved to Camden, where he opened a gallery, exhibiting artists including Grayson Perry and Andrew Logan alongside his own work, while also wholesaling his jewellery....
...She recalls the English artist Grayson Perry’s well-known assertion, “I can be outrageous because the vice squad is never going to raid a pottery exhibition.”...
...Winder recreates the mood of 1934, while providing a sort of triple biography of cricketer Hedley Verity, tennis player Fred Perry and golfer Henry Cotton....
...Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing, by Tracey Thorn, Virago, RRP£16.99 In the follow-up to her prizewinning memoir Bedsit Disco Queen, Everything But The Girl’s Thorn writes about singing...
...By contrast, Fred Perry, the last British men’s singles champion in 1936, cashed in on his fame by pioneering his own range of sweatbands....
...Yet this summer’s exhibition at the Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, Hertfordshire does just that....
...www.padlondon.net Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 Until January 15, 2012 Victoria and Albert Museum The V&A’s big autumn show is a detailed examination of a still-divisive movement....
...Similarly, on December’s American Harper’s Bazaar: Katy Perry in …silver! It seems magazine editors have the supersonic rise of precious metal prices in mind....
...The novel that has taught me the most about business and work is Belle du Seigneur, the 1930s masterpiece written in French by Swiss writer Albert Cohen....
...Anything handmade was deemed aesthetically inferior unless it was incorporated into a piece by an artist such as Tracey Emin or Grayson Perry....
...“This is why artists like Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry and Caren Garfen are drawn to quiltmaking and why quilts are relevant to us today.”...
...Albert Stanley, KBR’s former chief executive, also pleaded guilty and awaits sentence. The case, which is due to end in mid-December, continues....
...All are part of a touring exhibition from London’s acclaimed Victoria and Albert Museum, which has just opened in the Syrian capital....
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