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...Now this rare masterpiece, “The Deposition from the Cross”, has been sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in a transaction brokered by Sotheby’s....
...to the Frieze Masters displays, Wagstaff says Hambling, presented by Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert and Frankie Rossi Art Projects, will be showing a handwritten quote on the back of her studio door from Henry V,...
...It was near the end of her silversmithing and jewellery degree at London Metropolitan University, in 2011, that she wrote a five-year business plan including a wish to learn Ashanti casting....
...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...Distillers Company was bought by Guinness in 1986 which ultimately became Diageo with the merger with Grand Metropolitan in 1997. Royal Insurance merged with Sun Alliance in 1996....
...Lest that sound like metropolitan snobbery, take note that another newspaper crops up in Caret....
...London is about the grand gesture planning of the new Stratford, where the V&A East museum is taking shape, and it is about Mare Street market, which maintains a lively balance between street food vendors...
...Gone is McVicar’s twist on Verdi’s deus-ex-machina ending: rather than having the ghost of emperor Charles V spirit Don Carlo away from the Inquisitor’s vengeance, as written, McVicar had earlier resurrected...
...The Howard Hodgkin Indian Collection will be displayed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2024....
...“I think the message that the metropolitan government will support them seamlessly from age 0 to 18 would trigger a major reversal of the trend.”...
...In the 70 years that Don Carlos has enriched the Metropolitan Opera’s repertory, the Schiller-based saga of familial and political conflict has become one of Verdi’s most treasured operas....
...We see “die-ins” and other attention-grabbing protests at institutions such as the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan museum and the V&A....
...There's the union v independence tactical voting, and then there's the anti-Tory tactical voting. And the two do not necessarily align. So the question is, what is the emotion, which is......
...In London, too, February is going to be a gala month, with the cream of the crop being the V&A’s hosting of the magnificent display of the works of Donatello — possibly the first ever in the British capital...
...In the case of her wrap dress, versions of which are now held in the Smithsonian and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, it was designed for the “woman in charge”....
...After all, a photo of Selassie’s coronation in 1930 showed King George V’s son on bended knee before him....
...Yet as Dominic Lieven points out, empire — where a metropolitan centre, home to a distinct people, rules over a multiplicity of different peoples — is the most common form of government over recorded history...
...As ever, drop Imani (Imani.Moise@ft.com) or myself (Sid.V@ft.com) your emails with thoughts and suggested topics for coverage. Have a great week!...
...But he sees an additional imbalance to address: the dominance of a liberal, metropolitan bubble....
...A star trio of women’s voices — Julia Bullock, Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara — tug at the heartstrings with “Migratory V”. Part two, Work, follows on February 24; Love in April; Faith in May....
...Then there are the 7m visitors a year to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met), where a 1910 sapphire necklace by Louis Comfort Tiffany is on display....
...In the end, you create, not just this idea of the anti-growth coalition being metropolitan elite, but, as we were saying, almost the whole country....
...I’m a metropolitan being at heart so my trips this summer will most likely be taken to this country’s cities rather than to a windswept beach....
...Founded in 1907, Lowy works with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sotheby’s and the actor Steve Martin, a notable collector....
...Suozzi also points out that high real estate taxes and the higher cost of living in areas like the New York metropolitan area and California push many people who are middle class in terms of their buying...
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