Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...As for Cézanne, his landscapes were already based on cubes and triangles as in the cottage on a tilting path in 1873’s “House of the Hanged Man”; “Modern Olympia” was an ungainly nude revealed in the violent...
...Take advantage of a Friday in town with Counter 71’s new lunch service....
...However, Morgan Entrekin, president of Grove Atlantic, an independent publisher, said his preference would probably be that Simon & Schuster remained separate from one of the other big four publishers....
...As for levelling up, NG200’s “National Treasures” will send a dozen core paintings travelling. Caravaggio’s “The Supper at Emmaus” (1601) goes to Belfast, shown with Cornelia Parker’s films....
...This year’s hurricane season has been “benign”, says Charles-Marie Delpuech, an associate director at S&P. “We did not really have a major hurricane this season,” he observes....
...Colorado Three blocks west along Main Street from the venerable Hotel Jerome where Hunter S Thompson held court, Mollie Aspen is a swish reinvention of what was the three-star Molly Gibson Lodge....
...Critics found 2007’s Miss Herbert, a vigorous romp through literary theory and translation, either “monumentally annoying” (Adam Mars-Jones) or “cheeringly unique” (James Smart)....
...February 16 to May 18; further information and tickets here Coconut Grove Arts Festival The 60th anniversary of the chic neighbourhood’s annual celebration of the arts....
...(Another being S’Estaca, now the holiday home of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.)...
...This pessimistic painting was chosen as poster image for 2024’s Brussels/Paris blockbuster exhibition Imagine! 100 Years of Surrealism....
...Grand Hotel Son Net, s/n Puigpunyent, Mallorca 07194; sonnet.es. Double rooms from €800; suites from €1,200...
...This is the bruised bucolic picture presented in Alcarràs, Carla Simón’s Berlin Film Festival-winning second feature after 2017’s little wonder Summer 1993....
...COP host countries also stage what is in effect a gigantic climate expo, now so popular with businesses, investors, cities and campaigners that COP28’s UAE hosts predict a jaw-dropping 70,000 attendees in...
...More than any of his hard-bodied contemporaries — Arnold “Austrian Oak” Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude “Muscles from Brussels” Van Damme, Dolph “Grace Jones’s Bodyguard” Lundgren — Stallone shaped his physique...
...Rates: Double, from S$1,300 (about £795) Website; Directions For the CEO with family in tow: Shangri-La Singapore 22 Orange Grove Road, Singapore 258350 The USPs: Space, service and extreme family-friendliness...
...And they have these beautiful olive groves all over the place....
...installed ourselves in the village, knuckled down and set about de-wilding our land, repairing water tanks, rebuilding stone walls, slashing and burning the morass of brambles that had covered the olive grove...
...Or because the suites feel like single-girl or -guy apartments, thanks to the layouts and the unfussy but coddling decor (courtesy of Michael S Smith, the designer whom the Obamas chose to make the White...
...Young Mungoby Douglas Stuart, Picador £16.99/Grove Press $27 Winner of the 2020 Booker Prize with his debut Shuggie Bain, Stuart returns with another novel set in the working-class Glasgow of his own youth...
...have MA-1 jackets from Vivienne Westwood, Liam Hodges, Calvin Klein, Junior Gaultier, CP Company, Raeburn, Paul Smith, Burberry, Left Hand and even Tommy Nutter for Austin Reed,” says Professor Andrew Groves...
...But surely no one loved Simenon quite so much as the New Wave film director Claude Chabrol, who adapted several of his books for the cinema....
...His most monumental late-millennial project was the eight-part Histoire(s) du Cinéma, a made-on-video summary, typically wide-ranging and provocative, of our filmic heritage....
...“There is a history . . . of obstructing renewables because you want to protect the gravy train around incumbent resources,” said Grové Steyn, managing director of Meridian Economics, a consultancy....
...In the rolling hills and mango groves of his boyhood county, he found peace. He also found a state safety net that, functioning at its best, can save lives....
...Apuriña indigenous people complained to the prosecutor that chestnut groves, a source of income, were at risk from Nemus’s building plans....
International Edition