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...The meringue-fantasy daughter listens to music in a room plastered with Jackie magazine covers. Dad (fruitcake) slumps before the television. Baby (iced nappy) lies in a cot....
...Akrill, a vision in three-piece Prince of Wales checks, retains many of his Northern Ballet-trained skills and is a natural physical comedian but the star of the show was the high, wide, handsome set design...
...The “prince of painters and painter of princes”, as he was called in his lifetime, is familiar but alien to modern taste — grandiloquent, arcane....
...I could see Edna was the work of genius but couldn’t quite laugh. Maybe it was that the morphing of the familiar man with his floppy dark hair into the croaking, gladioli-throwing Edna was too much....
...Wright recommends B-side tracks from popular artists such as The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac and Prince, which are reassuring without being too familiar....
...It now hangs dramatically opposite conceptualist photographer Thomas Struth’s “Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth II” (2011) in a darkly receding Windsor Castle drawing room — a tour de...
...As he strikes, a Persian prince in iridescent yellow jumps forward and takes the blow, sacrificing himself so that Darius’s charioteer can flee to safety. The narrative unfolds cinematically....
...Their uniforms shine in rich impasto hues fit for kings: myriad whites for “Le Petit Pâtissier”, hands on his hips, insouciant as a prince; velvety reds and blacks for “Le Valet de Chambre” with outsize...
...I recalled a sentence from an Edna St Vincent Millay poem: “Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.” Even for the most mathematically uninclined minds, geometry is the fount of visual pleasure....
...Covered with gilt and dimly lit with candles . . . powerful or banal/Monuments of riches or repression . . . the Escorial/Cold for ever within like the heart of Philip . . . and in the Prado half/Wit princes...
...Diana’s life was so eventful: she was a latter-day Jackie O, glimpsed on yachts with a playboy, in Paris, and then, unbelievably, gone....
...Circle of the Rue Royale” (1868), the monumental portrait on a balcony overlooking the Place de la Concorde of a dozen men embodying Parisian high society — from brutal General Galliffet to effete composer Prince...
...The domed towers of Haiti’s Iron Market at Port-au-Prince rise from another podium, the structure restored after the devastating 2010 earthquake....
...Napoleon III’s portraitist was not Manet, the era’s radical figure painter, but the tame Franz Winterhalter, also lured to Britain by Prince Albert....
...Lady Midnight’s ragtime, soul and rock score adds melancholic/defiant strains to Kara Walker’s stop-motion animation “Prince McVeigh and the Turner Blasphemies”: leaping shadow-puppets enact the recent white...
...He commemorated it with Tivoli Corner, the columned passage at the intersection of Lothbury and Princes streets, which, with Threadneedle Street’s fortress wall, is all that remains of his neoclassical domed...
...Another popular pocket is The Sisters, a conservation area near the river where the streets are named after the landowner’s daughters: Edna, Orbel, Ursula and Octavia....
...“Diana, Princess of Wales, the Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall have also frequented the store....
...The largest of these paintings, the sublime “The Family of Infante Don Luis” (1784), depicts a banished prince shortly before he died in exile....
...He courted Hong Kong tycoons as investors at card games and enlisted Chinese movie stars such as Fan Bingbing and Jackie Chan to help market his products....
...The film is directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, also a black woman. You might know her previous films like the classic Love & Basketball, Old Guard and The Secret Life of Bees....
...Anyone who saw the first lady’s blood-spattered Chanel suit in Jackie knows not to expect a conventional biopic from Pablo Larraín’s Spencer....
...Enter the age of simulacra: appropriation art by Richard Prince, Sherrie Levine, Barbara Kruger among hundreds; Cindy Sherman’s self-conscious fictionalising; Nan Goldin’s performed realism such as “The...
...Prince Albert of Monaco’s billion-euro passion project will create Mareterra, a development consisting of residential, cultural and recreational spaces....
...George II’s obstreperous Rococo-loving playboy son, Frederick, the Prince of Wales who never became king, was an individualist collector — Filippo Lauri’s softly balanced caravan of figures in landscape...
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