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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...Invented by Henry Cole, founder of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the museum that would become the V&A, Christmas cards have been commercially available since 1843....
...When a V-neck is deep enough to show a bra’s centre gore, she can steal fabric from a deep hem to fill it in....
...The layering of the experience of the space, using elements like air, water and light [as part of the design]… it is ephemeral and holistic, and you cannot put that in a box.”...
...To January 28, mkgallery.org The Box, Plymouth, February 17-June 2, theboxplymouth.com...
.... ★★★☆☆ To May 27, donmarwarehouse.com Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial Ambassadors Theatre, London It’s daggers drawn in Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial too and, again, animosity...
...We probably need to get our own box next year, pull in a few clients, couple of politicians, good wine, a few cricketers. Can only help the business....
...There are exhibitions about the building’s architecture, the heroes and slave-trading villains who paced its corridors and, of course, coins and banknotes and a great big gold bar inside a Perspex box —...
...Twenty years later the trend is gathering pace: the V&A is building an open storage facility in east London and the Boijmans van Beuningen opened its version in Rotterdam last year....
...In the fourth tier there are the older democracies, where the centrist establishment is threatened by further gains of populists at the ballot box....
...It’s a fearsomely powerful camera, but a joy to use out of the box, too. Some might say, “It’s not real photography because it’s not difficult enough.” They’re wrong. Sony a7R V, £3,999 @rhodri...
...The dark side of what Napoleon wrought is not, of course, good box office....
...However, the image in question shows an unopened takeaway foil box with a cardboard lid....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...The first photographer in the 60-year history of the Pirelli calendar to shoot it three times – in 1996, 2002 and 2017 – Lindbergh has been shown in museums around the world including the V&A, Centre Pompidou...
...And every edition is a box of delights....
...Around the edges of Katrina Redman’s desk in the vast complex of the Victoria and Albert Museum are the tools of her trade: a pot of skinny brushes, a box of “insect pins”, scalpels, bamboo skewers, a pair...
...One of the stars alongside Tom Cruise in this year’s box office hit Top Gun: Maverick is the hypersonic fighter jet SR-72 Darkstar....
...A delicate form in a full-length leather coat and late-1970s retro-futuristic sunglasses, streamers of acid-yellow hair, tattooed hands and lips painted pillar box red, she is part glamour puss, part Judge...
...Below are a few recent comment-box highlights....
...She was dressed elegantly in a V-neck white linen blouse, white trousers and a pair of trainers. But the signs of her injuries were everywhere....
...Standing in her stout box kilt, dove-grey cardigan and stockings, she looked completely adorable — the simple country wife she once imagined she would be....
...“It will have performance spaces and rehearsal rooms; it’s next to Westfield Stratford and the V&A East – it’s going to be a cultural quarter almost,” says Bargh....
...But most people would not choose to live in a massive concrete box with tiny windows, and contractors would not make much money building them....
...I ask Wilcox how she hopes the V&A show might make an impact. She replies: “I really hope that it unlocks the dressing-up box for men.”...
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