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...Puzzle 2524 Vladimir Fedoseev v Magnus Carlsen, world rapid, Riyadh 2017. White played 1 Ke2? a3 after which the knight could not stop the pawn....
...registered with the Pewterers’ Company and any maker found to be selling substandard wares risked losing their mark and being unable to trade,” notes Angus Patterson, senior curator of metalwork at the V&...
...It’s also the most immaculate curation I’ve seen since visiting the Chanel show at the V&A....
...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...The BBC has sold music studios in London’s Maida Vale that had been used by The Beatles and David Bowie to a consortium including Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer....
...Take a break from the news V-necks have been verboten for as long as most of us can remember, writes Teo van den Broeke....
...It rightly gives kids access to “serious” original artworks, by the likes of Bridget Riley and David Hockney (the latter accompanied by aquatic soundscapes)....
...The trove of pop and rock history will be held and displayed in a newly created David Bowie Centre for the Study of Performing Arts at V&A East Storehouse in Stratford, east London, with items regularly...
...Alara is a concept store from Nigerian fashion entrepreneur Reni Folawiyo designed by Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye....
...And finally To the V&A in London, where a new blockbuster exhibition, Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto, highlights both the designer’s revolutionary approach and her many links with Britain....
...and Serbia 200th day of the Hamas-Israel conflict after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7 last year UK: 100th anniversary of both the first radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V...
...David Lammy, shadow foreign secretary, sought over the weekend to add detail to Labour’s foreign policy vision, which he summarised as “progressive realism”....
...In this weekend’s semi-final (Saturday and Sunday at midday on major chess websites, with live commentary by England’s David Howell) Carlsen faces the World Cup’s giant-killler and hometown favourite Nijat...
...It is building a facility in Penang, but some US lawmakers already want to restrict American companies from collaborating on RISC-V projects....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...During my residency, the Prado’s one Caravaggio was being restored: a depiction of David with the head of Goliath from 1600, in which David looms largest, his knee resting on a felled Goliath as he grabs...
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...But the versatile David also produced images of the heroic legislator....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...Only the virtuoso opening is the same: the larger than life marble “David”, all compressed energy, stands with the curl-framed head of Goliath at his feet....
...Wadsworth v Fernandez was an imaginative king hunt, and the best attacking game of the championship....
...May 16 to October 13; further information and tickets here ‘Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’, V&A South Kensington The couple’s extraordinary private collection...
...When I visited in 2018, a couple of hours into the challenging drive, husband David at the wheel, we were pulled over by armed local police, the Jafar and Abis Mal of this particular panto....
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