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...Wayne McGregor’s 2015 triptych (currently at London’s Royal Opera House) seeks to mesh the subject matter of Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves with Virginia Woolf’s own life (and death)....
...CNN’s Amy Entelis, Virginia Moseley, Eric Sherling will help run things until a replacement is found....
...Daisy Hildyard’s second novel, Emergency, is a quiet, complicated hymn to nature set in the early periods of lockdown....
...I went hoping to admire the long bed of blue-flowered daisies, Aster x frikartii, which ran under the wall down to the moat....
...This was not a home, it was a place to show off a huge collection of contemporary art, including Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons. An entire double bedroom was given over to a Cornelia Parker sculpture....
...And so we meet Virginia (not her real name), a human rights lawyer who has a history of being attracted to unavailable men....
...(It now belongs to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.)...
...With several other great novels — including Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Franz Kafka’s The Trial — now finally out of copyright, expect a flood of homages and satires, prequels and sequels....
...Intimations of antiquity are seasoned with a soupçon of Jeff Koons. The references pile up quickly....
...by Margaret Atwood, Chatto & Windus, RRP£20/Nan A Talese, RRP$28.95 The sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale is narrated by three women with contrasting experiences of Gilead: Agnes, a commander’s daughter; Daisy...
...Visitors come to admire the setting for Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, with its grand showrooms and handsome paintings by Reynolds and Gainsborough, or to walk through its eerie stretches of parkland, chosen...
...People are going back to revisit Bamboozled now, because of what’s happened in Virginia [Another blackface scandal involving several US politicians]....
...Amtrak operates a blind-date policy and Daisy and I are matched with a moneyed mother and daughter from Charlottesville, Virginia. The mother wrinkles her nose when I tell her we’re visiting Asheville....
...A farsighted headmaster, Kenneth Thompson, gave every new boy at his school, Broughton Hall in Staffordshire, a square yard of mud and a packet of Virginia stock seeds....
...Whereas The Great Gatsby is a wonderful story about a rich man with consummate style: giving endless parties just because he wants to catch a glimpse of Daisy....
...After his beloved Bella’s death, a younger Scottish lady, Virginia Haggard McNeil, came in to console him, not least by bringing cut flowers....
...years ago by Martin Scorsese, it tells the story of a mixed-race couple — Richard and Mildred Loving — who made Civil Rights history in 1967 by overturning the ban on interracial marriage in the state of Virginia...
...Virginia Shore, AIE deputy director and chief curator, says the Madrid display is easily its “most extensive loan exhibition in recent history”....
...Now Life in Squares (BBC2, July 30, pictured), traces the lives of Duncan Grant (James Norton), Virginia Woolf (Lydia Leonard) and her sister, Charleston chatelaine Vanessa Bell (Phoebe Fox), over 40 tumultuous...
...You might think of his inert surfaces as a highly marketable form of conceptualism, boisterous and arousing in the manner of Jeff Koons....
...The asters and related daisy families are magnificent....
...Virginia Overton’s installation, a single pipe snaking diagonally down a wall (“Untitled, tubo”, 2013) tells me more about life in the metropolis than Keith Edmier’s underwhelming centrepiece, “Penn Station...
...His wife brought seeds in from Virginia and, at the bottom of the garden, there is a vegetable patch of courgettes, squashes, spinach, cauliflower, carrots and tomatoes....
...I even spotted the pin-up of that era, Virginia Bottomley....
...There is surely no difference between reading The Great Gatsby in a Penguin paperback or a beautifully bound first edition – Jay Gatsby would be as suave and Daisy Buchanan as fresh in both....
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