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...Whereas a lap-pool swimmer is easily recognisable by their distinctive V-shaped torso (and by the mess of fins and hand paddles they tend to carry around in those black mesh bags), a seasoned open-water...
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...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....
...His spokesman, Jesús Ramírez, initially said the president felt unwell and was tested in the northern city of Monterrey on the eve of his return home....
...This month, Jesús Ramírez, the president’s press chief, tested positive for the virus....
...“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...
...Sun v coalOver the weekend, a government commission unveiled a plan that calls for the phasing out of coal and lignite power in Germany to help the country achieve ambitious 2030 climate targets....
...I was judging an illustration thing at the V&A and I thought, ‘I’ll get there early because they’ve got one box of jewellery that’s been found.’”...
...(FT) Xi v Deng A series of hasty revamps to an exhibition in celebration of China’s “reform and opening up” has sparked a contest of narratives over who was responsible for the pivotal reforms started 40...
...(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”....
...Neptune said Mr Lumens will continue as a non-executive director at Oryx Energies and V-Labs Virtual Reality....
...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...
...Hatch himself is well versed in antitrust issues, having been one of the Microsoft agitators way back when, and has had tough exchanges with former FTC chair Edith Ramirez over Google....
...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....
...“They said I had her and threw her in [the latrine],” says Ramírez....
...‘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...
...Beyond Kapoor’s dirty tunnel stretches Le Nôtre’s superb pond with a fountain of Apollo in his chariot....
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