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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...To ensure they were perfect copies of the museum objects, Srouji also enlisted the help of a family in Nablus, an ancient city nestled between two mountains in the West Bank, who make forgeries of Roman...
...August 17, 23 and 25; further information and tickets here Battersea Park in Concert A long weekend of concerts spanning everything from jazz to West End hits in the south-west London park; last year’s...
...A citadel surrounded by lush greenery on the edge of the city, the campus is home to a number of Ghana’s most noteworthy Modernist buildings, such as the open-sided Great Hall with its exposed staircases...
...(He also brought banging youth music nights to the usually quiet halls of the V&A.)...
...With windows on to the city streets, it brings exotic life into the heart of the institution....
...east and west....
...Even a demonstrative attack would start the “escalation ladder” and raise the prospect of a Russian attack on a big city....
...Poor and illiterate, they brought up five children in the inner-city area of Balsall Heath....
...It looked a bit grand under the dome of Westminister’s Central Hall, but the admirably age-diverse cast of models again kept it grounded....
...Capturing the entire Donetsk region would require Russian forces to advance towards these heavily fortified cities 50km to 70km west of Lysychansk, and about the same again to reach the administrative border...
...Visitors roaming Punchdrunk’s new show The Burnt City – a retelling of the fall of Troy – can visit a Dewar’s whisky bar serving “Kykeon” cocktails inspired by a Greek drink mentioned in Homeric texts....
...At the Four Seasons Nashville, meanwhile, is notching up the highest prices ever seen in the city, with one 5,000 sq ft penthouse recently selling to a couple from Memphis for more than $8mn....
...“There is not a problem of morale for regulars from the armed forces … they are holding up and executing orders, but they want to kill the enemy and not sit in position as cannon fodder,” Oleksandr V Danylyuk...
...Such a push will probably involve an attempt to encircle the cities of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk....
...But with a greater concentration of billionaires than any other city, New York is the obvious place to float such a proposition....
...Prime properties in the city are up 12.3 per cent in Q3 2021 year on year, according to Savills Research, outpacing the small south-west cities of Bath and Salisbury, where average second-hand property prices...
...We have loads of international shows on the road.” MIF has resonated far beyond north-west England. Jeremy Deller’s 2017 centrepiece installation “What is the City but the People?”...
...Following the toppling of the Colston statue in Bristol last summer, Cardiff City Hall said it would remove a statue of Thomas Picton, the governor of Trinidad who authorised the torture of a 13-year-old...
...In St Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city and one of the worst-hit according to the health ministry, officials ordered bars, restaurants, museums, concert halls and theatres to close for much of Russia...
...“The hardest thing to do was marry the protected facades with the interior floors and halls.”v The residences open in mid-September, the culmination of years of work at Lamela’s company....
...day (some 14 per cent of the city’s population)....
...Last year, for a community project in Fort Smith, Arkansas, she transformed an abandoned petrol station, injecting the stark “Last stop before the wildness of the Wild West” with vibrant vim....
...“The house where I grew up, in rural Arkansas, was built out of 100-year-old materials from a dilapidated building in New Orleans....
...While pianos are in a state of decline in the West, the opposite is the case in China. It makes you wonder - what else might that be true of?...
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