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...Larkin Durey launched last week with a show of new paintings by the Cameroon artist Marc Padeu ($65,000-$85,000, until April 5)....
...Catch a train or a plane and get there if you can. ★★★★★ To April 9, festspielhaus.de, also available to watch on mezzo.tv...
...Then Prince Philip suggested at Jallianwala Bagh, the site of the terrible massacre in April 1919 when General Dyer ordered British troops to open fire on thousands of unarmed Indians, that numbers of the...
...On April 13 1919, Udham Singh was a 19-year-old serving water, alongside other boys from the orphanage in which he was raised, to an unarmed multifaith crowd in the recreation ground of Jallianwala Bagh...
...“Gone are the days when everyone had a set date or a set age from which they’ll never work again,” said Colin Dyer, Abrdn’s client director....
...Speaking straight out to the audience, he gives a searing speech about how slavery shaped modern Jamaica — a reminder of the painful context of songs that are full of reassuring sweetness. ★★★★☆ To April...
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...Another imperial officer, General Reginald Dyer, mowed down defenceless protesters in Amritsar on April 13 1919, claiming that he had done so for the “moral effect” on the Indian crowd....
...On her 21st birthday on April 21 1947, while touring South Africa with her mother and father, the “heiress presumptive” took the opportunity to broadcast to the Commonwealth and empire her own redefinition...
...The ‘Wisdom and Nature’ Christie’s exhibition will now run online from 6 -27 April 2021, with the auction on 27 April; wisdomandnature.com SidactionSince losing his partner to Aids in 1990, French fashion...
...As Jupiter gave Ganymede eternal life among the gods, Dyer acquires immortality through Bacon’s images....
...Such a move could increase the appeal of stocks overseas, after years of US shares outperforming other developed markets, said Chris Dyer, director of global equity at Eaton Vance, a US fund manager....
...It’s riveting, unsettling stuff and Spall’s tour-de-force delivery (directed by Dyer) drives it throughout....
...Noël Coward Theatre, London to May 30 dearevanhansen.com Death of England Rafe Spall gives a blistering performance in this gripping solo show by Roy Williams and Clint Dyer about grief, love, national...
...On April 13 1919, Indian soldiers under the command of the British General Reginald Dyer shot and killed at least 379 colonial subjects who had gathered on the Sikh and Hindu religious festival of Vaisakhi...
...At Dyer’s command, those Gurkha troops/ Gathered in a formation tight, my friends./ Under the tyrant’s orders, they opened fire/ Straight into innocent hearts, my friends . . . ” On April 13 1919, thousands...
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...Paul Dyer The Old Pig & Whistle, Quenington, Gloucestershire, UK...
...There is no suppressed neurosis, no feeling of the sedation necessary to endure this life — this woman is not going to end up like April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road (published three years earlier, in 1961...
...Predominantly Shia protesters stormed the Green Zone and ransacked parliament in April. Clashes on Friday left at least four dead....
...Meanwhile a campaign to demand that Cambridge University’s £6.3bn endowment fund sell out of fossil fuels escalated in April when 300 academics signed an open letter urging swift action on divestment....
...Just 36 hours before, George Dyer — Bacon’s lover and inspiration, who features spectre-like in the painting — had committed suicide in their hotel room....
...Hillary Clinton unofficially began her campaign for president in April last year with a 1,000-mile road trip from New York to Iowa in order to listen to voters in a car she called “Scooby”....
...To April 8, royalcourttheatre.com...
...Additional reporting by April Ma, Wan Li and Christian Shepherd...
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