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...None more so than the venerable De L’Europe, which has stood at the confluence of the Amstel river and two canals since 1896 and is just completing a five-year renovation....
...The show pays homage to “De Profundis”, the weird and wonderful 50,000-word letter the Irish poet and playwright wrote to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, while imprisoned in Reading Gaol for “acts of gross...
...Bonus points for the perfect French omelette at its restaurant, Brasserie l’Émil. An 11/10 recommend....
...So there is a Birkenstock for every purse and purpose, in line with Alfred Sloan’s slogan for General Motors cars in 1925....
...Louis Wise is assistant editor at HTSI All images courtesy Corita Art Center Ordinary Things Will Be Signs for Us by Corita is co-published by J&L Books and Magic Hour Press Follow @FTMag to find out...
...Classic Amsterdam, all shined up It’s not new (the original opened 125 years ago), but it’s definitely newly reborn: the Hotel de L’Europe in Amsterdam, owned by the Heineken family, has just emerged from...
...He’ll even add an extra gloss of flamboyant virtuosity by laying down a tracery of homage to Alfred Hitchcock or Claude Chabrol....
...Behind Alfred were the brotherhood — la Confrèrie de l’Ordre de la Dinde de Licques — with men in cavalier-like costumes and women in blue and white robes....
...For me it was an arson attack at Gare de l’Est. No one was injured, but the fire destroyed about 50 cables, disrupting services....
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...A short walk from the Place de l’Odéon, the building containing the gallery was originally commissioned in the 16th century by King Henri II for his mistress Diane de Poitiers....
...Consommé à l’Impérial and lamb chops à l’Orientale were on the menu, and the programme of music for that day included, with exemplary British diplomacy, a selection from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, an opera...
...Her blue-grey eyes focus on the poster for the Sam Szafran exhibition currently on at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris....
...Wilder co-wrote his screenplays with scribes such as Charles Brackett and I.A.L. Diamond, often in cantankerous relationships....
...Two new restaurants, L’Asiatique and L’Italien are overseen by Jean-Georges Vongerichten, the French chef who relocated to New York in the mid-1980s and now runs restaurants from Sao Paulo to Shanghai....
...In 1894, he co-founded the art magazine L’Ymagier with the Symbolist writer, Remy de Gourmont....
...Matthew L Tompkins is an experimental psychologist and professional magician....
...In the first category is “The Vertical City”, which gathers Manhattan-besotted photography by Berenice Abbott and Alfred Stieglitz; Walter Ruttmann’s bracing short film from 1927, Berlin, Symphony of a City...
...Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, by George Packer, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25/Alfred A Knopf, RRP$30 Packer is one of the most talented non-fiction writers in America....
...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....
...He adapted Alfred Stieglitz’s lighting effects, although not his symbolist overlay. “Friends” flocked to him for photographic blandishments....
...He hit his stride in the 1920s, his sources in traditional European portraiture chiming with French culture’s rappel à l’ordre even as his frenzied handling, manipulating form through swaths, swirls and...
...This was the cold war, and the negating of patriotic imagery was disquieting: in 1958 Alfred Barr at the Museum of Modern Art dared not buy a “Flag” painting, instead persuading architect Philip Johnson...
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Photographs: Richard Davis/De Havilland Aircraft Museum; V&A; Estate of Bertrand Goldberg; Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace’; HB-13583-H, Chicago...
...Yossi Feinberg senior associate dean for academic affairs, Stanford Graduate School of Business My recommendation is Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage , by Alfred Lansing....
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