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...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Imperial Tobacco was acquired by Hanson Trust in 1986 and the tobacco side was demerged in 1996, continuing as Imperial Brands....
...In contrapposto pose astride a tortoise, “Winged Putto with a Fantastic Fish”, originally part of a fountain, stares out impudently....
...Once successful for his industrial and railway work, only a few small buildings survive, including his green shelters for cab drivers — there is one rather battered version outside the V&A....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...Also among the Sotheby’s fare in Hong Kong was “Sophia Facing the Singularities” (2021), an evolving artificial intelligence robot devised by Hanson Robotics, which sold for HK$4m in the day sale on October...
...“It doesn’t feel like it’s going to be a V-shaped recovery. In the best-case scenario, it will be a Nike swoosh,” said Eric Sivry at broker Marex Spectron....
...“We got to yes so much more quickly,” said Mr Hanson, who is now a state senator and plans to use the system in senate appropriations....
...Design Between Human and Machine at the V&A Dundee, a show that is the year-old Tayside museum’s first to stem from an international collaboration....
...“Here, under that high and insolent dome, under those tricky ceilings; here as I passed through those arches and broken pediments . . . and sat . . . before the fountain, probing its shadows, tracing its...
...“Our mission is to dream up and deliver design-led paper products,” adds Atighetchi, who counts the V&A, fashion brand Mother of Pearl, interiors wunderkind Matilda Goad and Gucci-endorsed illustrator Fee...
...Kara Walker: Hyundai Commission (£19.99, Tate Publishing)New York-based artist Kara Walker’s 13m-high fountain, Fons Americanus, a comment on suppressed histories running between continents and standing...
...(I also love Italian gardens, with their fountains, statues, grottoes and pools.)...
...All the V&A will say at the moment is that it “welcomes [the] ongoing discussion”....
...Produced in 1943 while he was at boarding school, these are notable not just for the immense care with which they were written and drawn in fountain pen and crayon but also for the rare glimpse they offer...
...Chang mirrors too motifs in the Giardino Garibaldi opposite: huge banyans with exposed aerial roots, ornamental fountains, busts of Risorgimento leaders....
...The Normal Training School of Art was reinvented as the National Art Training School in 1863 and located in what is now the V&A museum....
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...the V&A’s courtyard....
...Yet it is the mundane public facilities that make Sydney such a pleasure to live in: water fountains, public toilets with showers and free gas barbecues at beaches....
...the 1990s (Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker) Democrats are headed off their own cliff (Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call) Trump and Sanders could learn from Jesse Jackson (Errol Louis, NYDN) White elites v...
...Further as Sam Hanson, Robin Greenwood, Joshua Rudolph and I pointed out in earlier work, the market is today being asked to absorb an abnormally high rather than an abnormally low level of long term Federal...
...‘Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear’ is at the V&A, April 16 2016-March 12 2017 Photographs: Sam Shaw/Shaw Family Archives/Getty Images; Catwalking.com...
...They also have a resonance with a younger generation of collectors weaned on the contemporary hyperrealist figures of Duane Hanson and the memento mori of Damien Hirst....
...Beyond Kapoor’s dirty tunnel stretches Le Nôtre’s superb pond with a fountain of Apollo in his chariot....
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