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...V&A Craft Symposium (May 16) Panel discussions and keynote speeches on the topic of craft, as well as demonstrations of goldwork, featherwork, silversmithing and weaving....
...One of Anduril’s early champions was Katherine Boyle, a former Florida pageant queen and ex-Washington Post reporter who became a rising star at General Catalyst....
...But there’s also a restless sense of postwar turbulence and Norris retains the scope of the novel with a silent chorus of people on the move....
...Meanwhile backstage, props, costumes and wigs need to be separated, and keeping cast members safe is a military operation worthy of Henry V. Shakespeare was not a man for a two-hander....
...The artist Grayson Perry’s Brexit vases, which have gone on display in a different part of the V&A, offer a sophisticated variant of the same approach, drawing on crowd-sourced suggestions from Remainers...
...Yeats’s later essays, a book about Danny Boyle, and a big stack of things I’m reading for the Somerset Maugham Prize. What book changed your life?...
...“Artwashing” was coined amid the anti-gentrification protests that began two years ago in the Boyle Heights district of Los Angeles....
...A terrific climactic confrontation shortly before the end burns with a superficially noble brutality not unlike the newly crowned King Henry V’s rejection of Falstaff, yet even then and afterwards it becomes...
...There is a wealth of younger talent waiting in the wings: when Sir Nicholas Hytner stepped down from the leadership of the National Theatre last year, he was replaced by Rufus Norris (b 1965); Sandy Nairne...
...The first half shows Norris at his best, peppered with witty one-liners and underscored by a poignant sense of loss, the friends mourning Frankie, themselves and a childhood suddenly ended. E.V....
...19 The designer of the suit was the subject of an exhibition at the V&A in London in 2015, which proved the most popular in the museum’s history....
...He is far gentler in the flesh, almost feline, padding around his LA house in his customary V-neck T-shirt and high-waisted trousers so softly that he hardly makes a noise....
...Danny Boyle just reminded us how much we have to celebrate. Martin Donnelly, London SW20, UK...
...The opening move was not Zeus descending to earth in a fiery chariot to the sound of Jerusalem (or whatever it is the opening-ceremony auteur Danny Boyle has in mind)....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Electronic Arts spent heavily promoting Battlefield 3, and games such as Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Activision’s World of Warcraft with advertisements featuring actors including Chuck Norris....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Enclosed is what we think is a daring strategy to seize the initiative and blow the royals out of the water in a battle of the Palaces: Buckingham v Westminster....
...The right has existed in US state common law since a 1918 case called International New Services v. Associated Press....
...Most in the markets believe the global economic recovery will be anything but V-shaped – although such a scenario actually looks increasingly likely, says Barry Norris, partner at Argonaut Capital....
...Paul Boyle, ex-chief executive, Financial Reporting Council. Anne Brannagan, complex trauma manager, the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre. Ross Brawn, principal, Brawn GP, the Formula One team....
...However, he says he takes a contrarian view of markets, believing a recovery is likely to be V-shaped....
...Susan Boyle shot to fame when she appeared on Cowell’s Britain’s Got Talent show: her debut album broke records for sales by a solo female artist....
...Barry is a big believer in a V-shaped recovery and I am absolutely not. The case for the V is straightforward....
...“V-shaped” recoveries, in which employment comes roaring back, take place only when there’s a lot of pent-up demand....
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