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...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....
...Among the more challenging shows was Mexican artist Sebastián Solórzano Rodríguez (a 2014-15 protégé) performing his work [÷] v.0.8 : Boléro, which involved him practising 15 minutes of amplified heavy breathing...
...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....
...Two of its stars — Gianni Versace and Diana, Princess of Wales — died; arguably the first “It” bag, the Fendi Baguette, hit the market; and LVMH owner Bernard Arnault, who had amassed a portfolio of heritage...
...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...
...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....
...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...
...In December 2020, Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela’s vice-president, announced an agreement on vaccine supply that had been reached with Moscow....
...The average price of a home sold by E&V last year was up 29 per cent on the year before. New buyers and existing owners are using their homes for longer....
...The trio of exhibitions stretching from the V&A to the Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube also reveals a fearsome curator....
...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....
...His vice-president, Delcy Rodríguez, had just arrived back from Moscow bearing seasonal tidings of comfort and joy regarding Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...Antoine GodinUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Michael JacobsProfessor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield Ronan PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...An auction for the team over the summer featured bids from celebrity couple Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez, as well as other Wall Street heavyweights....
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