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...and Serbia 200th day of the Hamas-Israel conflict after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7 last year UK: 100th anniversary of both the first radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V...
...Proponents of the movement, who also included British potter Bernard Leach, looked to historic objects made by anonymous craftspeople, particularly Joseon-era ceramics from Korea, and elevated them as art...
...You can get up close and personal with Trajan’s Column at the V&A, or at least with the remarkable plaster cast that’s been part of its collection since 1873....
...The relatively new chief executive Jonathan Myers is bringing change and focus to the group....
...‘How to read a hurricane map’ explainer by Steve Bernard here...
...Tim Reeve, V&A deputy director, said that, while the museum had benefited from record-high domestic visitor numbers, a drop-off in international visitors had held back demand....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...“I was thinking of these big collectors, these big names of culture, which you are a part of,” she says to Lord Rothschild, “and Monsieur [Bernard] Arnault too....
...v) Do recent financial challenges for the company require a reassessment of its climate commitments? The war in Ukraine might be seen as a “black swan” event for global energy markets....
...Salt Crystalsby Cristina Bendek, translated by Robin Myers, Charco Press £11.99 With its contested past, the Colombian island of San Andrés is a cauldron of mixed and often conflicting identities....
...He took it up at school and was taught in St Ives by Bernard Leach, co-founder of Leach Pottery, before setting up a studio in Durweston in Dorset....
...Martin Hutson, as Bernard, seems pinched and shrunken by his xenophobia....
...The V&A in London is also in difficulties over treasures in its recent wonderful exhibition of Fabergé eggs, which ended some weeks ago....
...Giorgio Armani, who turns 88 next week, likewise infused his Armani Privé collection with floating fabrics and cheerful colours — hot pink, lilac, amethyst — as Delphine Arnault, daughter of LVMH chair Bernard...
...Hurricane animation explainer by Steven Bernard, sound design by Tom Hannen ‘How to read a hurricane map’ by Steven Bernard here...
...Demand for the paper products that it makes for Ruinart, Loewe, Burberry and many other luxury houses (“[Bernard] Arnault has always understood the importance of the feel of packaging,” says Cropper of the...
...The French director Agnès Varda, in her 1988 docudrama on Birkin, Jane B par Agnès V, notes this tendency and asks her subject why she doesn’t look at the camera....
...Ingenuity had reached Mars attached to the underside of the Perseverance rover, which had left Earth on an Atlas V rocket in July 2020....
...She was a pioneering feminist, founder of the Women’s Guild of Art and a spurned suitor of George Bernard Shaw, who later enjoyed a relationship with her “companion” Mary Lobb....
...A third, Dr Richard Myers (the IVF innovator), is at the centre of The Fever Syndrome by Alexis Zegerman (Hampstead Theatre, from March 18)....
...Bernard Arnault’s €750m transformation of the Samaritaine department store into the Cheval Blanc hotel was unveiled in September, while a month later Madame Rêve, a new hotel in Paris’s legendary former...
...The trio of exhibitions stretching from the V&A to the Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube also reveals a fearsome curator....
...Data visualisation by Steven Bernard...
...A month later, La Samaritaine, owned by Pinault’s billionaire rival Bernard Arnault, emerged from its 16-year makeover. Madame Rêve joined them in October....
...The chief executive of Bristol-Myers Squibb described the US government’s support for waiver as “very concerning” during an interview at the FT US Pharma and Biotech Summit on Thursday....
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