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...This was the side of him that inspired the Surrealists, starting with André Breton’s 1924 manifesto for the movement and continuing through Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, Leonora Carrington and Salvador Dalí...
...Lastly, in Mexico, leftwing nationalist Andrés Manuel López Obrador has a commanding lead in the polls....
...At Maison Margiela, John Galliano’s interpretation of “lo-fi, sci-fi, with a hi-fi finish” offered mirror mosaic decoration, silvery alien eye make-up and Apollo 13-era beehives that also recalled Tim Burton...
...The December sale features Newson’s “Extruded Table” (2008) alongside Ron Arad’s early prototype “D” sofa (c1994), a pair of “Two Curve” chairs (1989) by Scott Burton and Finn Juhl’s “Chieftain” armchair...
...Andre Sakharov, father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, who came to recognise the dangers of his own work (“He realised he’d given the bomb to a bunch of gangsters”)....
...Highlights include Emily Berry and Marianne Burton, as well as the long established yet still innovative Simon Armitage and Hugo Williams....
...Longines, meanwhile, is official partner of the French Open and counts Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf among its ambassadors....
...women, captured by great photographers, that will attract most bidders: Brigitte Nielsen and Elle Macpherson by Herb Ritts; Marilyn Monroe by Earl Moran; Carré Otis by Antoine Verglas and Anita Ekberg by André...
...Highlights: The star painting from the Vollard vault, André Derain’s “Arbres à Collioure”, was sold at Sotheby’s this week for more than £16m....
...Catalogue at www.christies.com Need to know: When the French writer André Breton published his Manifeste du Surréalisme in 1924, he set out to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and...
...In the 2006 Hamlet, the whole cast “channelled” the performances of actors in Richard Burton’s 1964 film version (Valk was both Ophelia and Gertrude), which was playing on a screen behind the actors....
...Pierre-Andre de Chalendar, a Saint-Gobain insider, was appointed chief executive....
...The explorer Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, Andre Gide and Gertrude Stein all had formative sexual experiences in the colonies....
...It was hung with photographs of such former habitués as Noel Coward, Cole Porter, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. A young woman offered me a Bellini and a tote bag containing a beach towel....
...Afterwards, directors “shot the breeze and waited for Arcelor to make up their minds”, according to Andrés Rozental, who has been on the Mittal board since 1997....
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