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...It is being built on the site of the old central police station and the recently demolished Reform synagogue, close to Alfred Waterhouse’s spectacular Victorian gothic town hall....
...Even if you fully embrace the wild, rambling country garden aesthetic, you’ll probably find it still needs to be gardened, as decorative artist Tess Newall and her husband, furniture designer Alfred, discovered...
...Most famously, he was hired to play Gollum in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy....
...Downtown, next to the mansion Alfred Vanderbilt built to house his mistress (now the sumptuous Vanderbilt Hotel, where I had a very pleasant stay), is one of the oldest districts of Newport, known as The...
...The studios of Alberto Giacometti, Alfred Munnings, Auguste Rodin, Salvador Dalí, Barbara Hepworth, Jackson Pollock and Vanessa Bell all have second lives as tourist attractions....
...And on my wishlist is a small painting by Alfred Wallis. I’ve always been fascinated by English artists either from Cornwall or who made their home there – Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Terry Frost....
...The film trilogy of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings by the director Peter Jackson in the early 2000s was a turning point....
...The following year, Alfred Sloan of General Motors unveiled the 1923 Chevrolet, a car with an old chassis but a stylish design that started the Detroit tradition of the annual model upgrade....
...A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle, by Julian T Jackson, Allen Lane, RRP£35/Harvard University Press, RRP$39.95 During the past three decades Jackson, a professor at Queen Mary, University...
...It was American interest — the first director of MoMA, Alfred Barr, bought a water lily painting for the museum in 1955 — that made a global superstar of late Monet....
...This week’s highlights Monday 10.45: Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel announced I unashamedly love the Nobel Prize in economics despite the chorus of dissenters labelling...
...Look at Ernst Gombrich’s seminal The Story of Art, he points out; the first American painting to feature is a 1950 work by Jackson Pollock....
...“Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson — who’s next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!” Mr Trump tweeted....
...“When you think of it now it was a steal,” Sir Elton told Ms Jackson....
...Alfred Edward Housman was born in 1859 in Worcestershire, the eldest of seven children of a country solicitor....
...His book ‘East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity’ will be published in 2016 (Alfred Knopf/Weidenfeld & Nicolson) Illustration by Shonagh Rae...
...The fortune amassed by his son — who serves, if that is the right word, as vice-president of a nation where one in 10 children dies before the age of five — includes Michael Jackson’s crystal-encrusted glove...
...Later he sold his paintings by Jackson Pollock and Agnes Martin to support his acquisitions. At that time, photography was a new market at auction....
...Members of her own circle of artists and intellectuals — which included Alfred, Lord Tennyson (her next-door neighbour on the Isle of Wight), Thomas Carlyle, Sir John Herschel, the Thackeray family and George...
...Alfred Le Léon has also joined as a passive sales specialist for France in Paris from HSBC Global Asset Management....
...Or take Alan Davie, whose improvisatory abstractions drew inspiration from Jackson Pollock and also from eastern philosophy – linking him to potter Bernard Leach, who called himself a “courier” from Asia...
...Recognising a precocious talent, Alfred Jackson, the husband of his Latin teacher and himself a cartoonist, asked the 14-year-old Quentin if he had any ideas....
...Then she met her husband; they travelled to New York, to see “the fantastic Jackson Pollocks and incredible impressionists”, as well as her own work hanging in an exhibition of British artists at the Met...
...Jackson-Stops & Staff, www.jackson-stops.co.uk...
...It includes lions, one of Michael Jackson’s tigers and a couple of leopards. Hedren has several domestic cats too....
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