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...V&A Craft Symposium (May 16) Panel discussions and keynote speeches on the topic of craft, as well as demonstrations of goldwork, featherwork, silversmithing and weaving....
...More than 7,000 items were catalogued in Francis Bacon’s studio when it was moved to the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, while the Whitechapel Gallery had a whole show about studios last year....
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...Rawsthorne, featuring Bacon’s portraiture after 1950 and his impact on the genre....
...This passion goes back to shooting’s zenith 100 years ago, when success was measured by the size of a hunt’s bag: a party led by George V holds the record for killing 3,937 pheasants in one day....
...It’s about the 25 years of British art from the second world war to the ’70s – Hockney, Bacon, Freud and so on....
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...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...The message from the V-A-C Foundation, which runs the recently opened and vast GES-2 House of Culture museum in Moscow, is more muted....
...The bacon was grey. In a heap of fat and cholesterol, nothing had any taste. Charlie said French ships do a worse version....
...Saumarez Smith is an artist who began her making life working as a bookbinder, creating some of the most memorable and dynamic of contemporary bindings shown in museums including the V&A....
...In 2017, a German appeals court in Hamm agreed to hear a case brought by Saul Luciano Lliuya, a Peruvian farmer who claims that RWE should be held accountable for climate change, specifically the melting...
...“I went to see Savage Beauty [the 2015 Alexander McQueen retrospective at the V&A] many times. It felt like the opposite of the fashion industry, which was really speeding up....
...Her opening show is of about a dozen works by Ayana V Jackson, who questions the colonial gaze in the history of photography (works priced between $15,000 and $25,000)....
...This month it begins a series of special exhibitions that showcase the V-A-C collection, a trove of international modern and contemporary work that ranges from Modigliani to Gerhard Richter, Francis Bacon...
...One of the most heart-wrenching paintings by Francis Bacon comes to Christie’s next month (October 6)....
...In response, Ben Affleck’s Batman must recruit a mob of caped bacon savers, which at length and volume he does....
...This year, 21 teenagers will get a hearing in the California appeals court for their claim in Juliana v US that the government failed to protect their rights to life, liberty and property by promoting the...
...She attended Temple University and married her brother’s friend, Saul Windsor, after graduating with a bachelors degree in 1950. The marriage lasted less than a year....
...For years and years and years, we’ve been flogged with advice to avoid bacon, to avoid eggs, to avoid cheese....
...It was at the Arms Park in 1973 that Gareth Edwards scored a try for the Barbarians v the All Blacks, which experts say has never been matched....
...Collaborating with Stuttgart’s Staatsgalerie, Liverpool has garnered stellar German-owned works: Düsseldorf’s caged “Man in Blue V”, Stuttgart’s “Chimpanzee”, eerily close to Bacon’s bestialised human forms...
...Bacon!” one volunteer yells into a megaphone. “Where do we want it? Congress!”...
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