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...He was the official portraitist of modernisation and infrastructure, his photos used to promote Paris as the City of Light....
...Forerunners include Vermeer, though the light that filters through his salons is less humble than John’s beams....
...May 16 to October 13; further information and tickets here ‘Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’, V&A South Kensington The couple’s extraordinary private collection...
...His friends (Hurley and Elton John) checked him into rehab. But even that didn’t hit the spot....
...John Derian agrees: “It’s a fun way to express yourself. They become heirlooms.”...
...New documents posted this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the US shed some light over how the deal eventually got done, and why it took so long....
...Mary is collapsing, the Magdalene rushes forward with raised arms and dishevelled hair, St John withdraws in silent grief....
...She cites Tadao Ando’s raw concrete blocks with air holes in the middle, admiring his use of light....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Jellicoe wanted each V to make a different note as the water flowed over it: the lower down the cascade, the lower the note....
...John....
...Lenses were to be procured that could shoot in available light (as they would for the majestic Barry Lyndon a few years later)....
...Even the new Apple headset, which is light years ahead of anything Luckey was tinkering with in his garage, seems, well, kind of mid....
...Back in the Conservation Department, Keith shines a UV light on to the Parmigianino altarpiece to reveal areas of alteration – a dappling of fresh paint imperceptible in natural light....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...The year after Arbus’s death, curator John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art mounted a major retrospective, which broke all attendance records for a one-person show at the museum....
...If this all seems too long to wait, there’s still plenty to light up the dreary days of January....
...At a personal level, we are now self-sufficient not only for water, light and heat (natural springs, solar power and firewood from our managed woodlands see to that), but we also have few outgoings beside...
...Try the Derbyshire-based John Smedley’s merino, which is hard-wearing and doesn’t pill, and is available in a host of colours....
...The previous night she saw John Adams’s modern opera Nixon in China, but I have been dying to ask her whether it is true that she is a David Bowie fan. It is....
...Managers such as John Paulson, Steve Cohen and Ray Dalio became stars, and Li aspired to reach their ranks....
...While following his father George V’s coffin in procession, Edward VIII recalled seeing “a flash of light dancing along the pavement”....
...In theatrics, it was rivalled only by Maison Margiela’s John Galliano, who in lieu of a traditional runway show live-recorded a half-hour film in the analogue manner of Old Hollywood....
...It is possible that Chief Justice John Roberts writes a very narrow opinion, saying that he does not want Roe vs Wade to be overturned, but in effect, still giving the green light to these extremely restrictive...
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