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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...
...Amy Booth-Steel, magnificent in a hooped multicoloured gown complete with galleon headdress, plays Calypso as a female panto dame, comical but with sinister flashes of spellcraft as she drains Odysseus’s...
...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...Kubrick’s Space Station V in Earth’s orbit had a Hilton Hotel with picturephone booths and groovy Olivier Mourgue Djinn armchairs in the lobby to serve as the gateway to the Clavius Moon base....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...This intentional discomfort is shared by Maxine Walker’s photographic series Untitled (1995), photo-booth style images in which the artist poses with different wigs and skin tones....
...There will be no fanfare outside the polling booth. Posterity may never know the voter’s name....
...“It was a clarion call to say that the reason that Stoke-on-Trent rose in the mid-18th century was because of design and art, and the importance that Josiah Wedgwood and Josiah Spode and Enoch Booth — all...
...Its cover bears “Woman in Ballot Booth” (1991)....
...Other pieces are held by the V&A and the Courtauld Gallery in London. I knew all this because I had seen — and written about — a nearly identical bowl for the FT last year....
...The Admiral Duncan, one of London’s oldest gay pubs, is a great place to sample the ambience....
...Sitting in a booth in London’s Brown’s hotel, tanned from her regular séjours in Miami and Maui, clad in sleek black Balenciaga and Loewe topped off with one of her own signature customised trucker hats,...
...Liam Booth-Smith, his longstanding chief of staff, and James Forsyth, his political secretary and an old friend from Winchester College days, have urged him to become more political....
...In the V&A’s latest annual review he also referred to talks with Ghana around the V&A collection of Asante court regalia, including gold ornaments, rings and badges, which entered the collection following...
...Its booth, dubbed Modernists and Mavericks, has been curated in collaboration with the critic Martin Gayford....
...The house has won prizes at the V&A Illustration Awards, as well as being recognised in the book trade for its bindings, production and indexing....
...Former Tory party leader Iain Duncan Smith, one of the five sanctioned MPs, said it was “astonishing” that China had been invited given its “huge record of human rights abuses”....
...Casting, Sarah Booth at Ben Grimes Casting. Hair, Yumi Nakada Dingle at Management Artists. Make-up, Bari Khalique, using SS22 La Pausa de Chanel and Chanel Hydra Beauty....
...One good read When I imagine my life depicted by an artist, the artist I imagine depicting is George Booth. Rest in peace....
...As ever, reach out to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) and me (sid.v@ft.com) with your thoughts, suggestions and comments. We’ll be back again next Monday. Happy reading!...
...Duncan Forbes, the V&A’s director of photography, was appointed two years ago....
...Even among Tory voters the positive differential has nearly halved, shrinking from around plus-44 to (67 ‘well’ v 23 ‘badly’) in January 2020 to plus-23 (58 ‘well’ v 35 ‘badly’) today....
...Her booth includes Samuel Levi Jones’s “Doom” (2021), a canvas of stitched, deconstructed books (sold for $36,000)....
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