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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....
...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....
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...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...
...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....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...We do not know whether French tycoon Bernard Arnault sees the recovery as swoosh-shaped. We can, however, be pretty sure that for him, diamonds are pear-shaped....
...“We should look at what bats are doing to control the virus and emulate that in some way,” says Bernard Crespi, professor of evolutionary biology at Simon Fraser University in Canada, one of a growing group...
...Economists say a V-shaped recovery is unlikely. Even then it could be two Vs stuck together – a W, in other words....
...Currently, the probability of the Democrats winning control of the Senate stands at 63% (according to PredictIt); iv) the sector is more technically disrupted than many investors realise; and v) net consensus...
...NYSE v Nasdaq: may the best board win Next to the Red Sox and the Yankees, Nasdaq and NYSE have one of the most longstanding bitter rivalries in America....
...In craft, it was the tradition of Bernard Leach, and I just found it dull and uninspiring. The lack of colour, the earthy surfaces. Ceramics were vessel-formed, plinth-based, quite conventional....
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