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...The cover is borrowed from Jacques-Louis David’s handsome painting, which hangs in the National Gallery of Art (admission free). I loathed Ridley Scott’s disappointing film, a catastrophe!...
...BID Art on a Postcard x War Child Art on a Postcard, the charity founded to raise funds for the Hepatitis C Trust, is dedicating its next auction of 4in-by-6in artworks to War Child, which provides aid...
...Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Diva in 1981 is a high point – full of warehouse spaces repurposed for a radical way of living. But it was American cinema that really drove the aesthetic into the mainstream....
...“The length of procedure and the complexity is an issue,” said Jean-Jacques Bouflet, vice-president of the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam, citing the absence of a centralised investment agency as...
...Many of the most beautiful frames made by Jacques Marie Mage are realised there, having started their life being sketched by founder Jerome Mage....
...Becky Fatemi, property agentEffortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most by Greg McKeown This was given to me by a friend, the designer Marc Jacques Burton....
...Peter Doig is at The Courtauld from 10 February to 29 May, sponsored by Morgan Stanley and supported by Kenneth C Griffin and the Huo Family Foundation Anthony Daley, London “After the moon landing in...
...Even in a dull year, the Conservative party is never short of options for compilers, since its name can be applied to clues or solutions in various forms — C, CON, TORY....
...There’s a long list of famous Bonnet customers: Jackie Onassis wore the “figure eight” glasses, and Jacques Chirac and Audrey Hepburn were also clients....
...The perfume that she released last year – a mix of magnolia and musk – was blended by the fêted nose Jacques Cavallier Belletrud. It costs £115 a bottle and is currently sold out everywhere....
...Reynolds’ exceptional, full-length portrait of Mai presents his subject in a classical pose as an exotic, idealised figure, representing him as the epitome of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s new concept of the “...
...Gerry’s digital paintings include familiar sights such as Jacques Majorelle’s Klein-blue villa, as well as more intimate street scenes: a man seated in front of a richly textured Berber carpet....
...With greater or lesser success, the powerful role of president was adopted by the likes of François Mitterrand for the Socialists on the left and Jacques Chirac for the republicans on the right....
...“There was a constant warning saying absolute failure will result if you do A, B or C. And everything they said is precisely what Munch did. Consistently.”...
...Vilafonté Series C 2017, £58.99, sahouseofwine.co.uk....
...C’est la vie. Read’s pencil was more complex than it appeared. How much more complex still is a car, or a computer, or even a toaster?...
...David Teece, a professor at the Institute for Business Innovation, Haas School, U.C. Berkeley, contributed to this article...
...great-grandfather, Alfred, began making glasses in the Jura region of France in the 1930s; Maison Bonnet was founded by Alfred’s son, Robert, in 1950, and subsequent clients have included Yves Saint Laurent, IM Pei, Jacques...
...This is a big moment for ESG — not least because it occurred in spite of a strong share price performance — and a wake-up call for any C-suite....
...RBC Fundamental View: Frasers has a strong position in UK mass market sports retailing and has freehold asset backing (c.£1bn), plus a now c.£200mn stake in Hugo Boss....
...Never were there more devoted Sisters than these two brothers, sibling adventurers played by Joaquin Phoenix (Charlie) and John C Reilly (Eli)....
...It’s quite a leap for auteur Jacques Audiard (A Prophet), but he takes to the dusty terrain like a lizard to desert sand....
...Heading into what we anticipate to be a c....
...Bernard Landry and Jacques Parizeau, two former premiers of Quebec....
...Shortly after the Coen brothers unveiled their Ballad of Buster Scruggs, French film-maker Jacques Audiard arguably out-Coened the Coens with a tale of gun-slinging siblings drenched in blood, whiskey and...
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