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...Next year’s, which is opening in January at the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End, is The Hills of California, with Sam Mendes directing....
...Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck (Bodley Head/WW Norton) In August 1945 Indonesia became the first colonised country to declare its independence after the second...
...February 25 to July 28; further information and tickets here ‘Harold Cohen: AARON’, Whitney Museum of American Art AARON was the late artist Harold Cohen’s proto-AI art software, which was programmed to...
...William Tyndale printed his epoch-making translations of the Bible here. In 1535, a spy lured him out of the secure “English House”....
...Scott’s, W1 This autumn, the Mount Street seafood institution beloved by the fashion cognoscenti will be taken over by a van Gogh-inspired sunflower installation, designed by “event imagineer” Tony Marklew...
...It struggled in its day, but since then directors such as Ivo van Hove have taken other experimental, stripped-back productions to the mainstream....
...The warren-like 17th-century building has played host to readings by authors ranging from Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs to Zadie Smith and Dave Eggers, while some claim James Joyce to be buried...
...The gulf kingdom’s sporting ambitions are at odds with its treatment of Saudi women’s rights activists, Amnesty International’s Kate Allen told the Guardian....
...Clark, London; DIA Cohen, New York Polymath 1,035: Tony Mouler, Birmingham, England Crossword 16,242: Helen Hillier, Dorset, England; JP Bowman, the Netherlands; C Wren, London Polymath 1,034: Peter Van...
...In summer, Isabelle Huppert arrives at the Barbican as the overbearing mother in Tennessee Williams’ heartbreaking The Glass Menagerie, directed by man-about-globe Ivo van Hove for the Odéon-Théâtre de l...
...They’re joined by Ifan William (their young slaughter-man and clearly a surrogate son) and by a traumatised soldier who literally blows in through the door....
...If Edith Walks commemorates the violent, convulsive coming together of Britain and Europe (exit Harold the Saxon, enter William the Frenchman), aren’t we now living through the exact opposite?...
...She divorced Michael’s father, the actor Anthony van Bridge, after the war, later remarrying Jack Morpurgo, who was to become a Penguin editor....
...William Wilberforce spent the last two years of his life at number 44. Former prime minister Harold Macmillan grew up at number 52 What you can buy for . . ....
...Take your seat: camper van or barge?...
...“It seems to me that its whole aim is to make Harold Wilson’s renegotiation [in the 1970s] look good,” he said, to widespread laughter....
...Harold’s Hungry Eyes, by Kevin Waldron, Phaidon, RRP£10.95/$16.95 Harold is a small dog with an insatiable appetite, who sees food everywhere....
...As Woody Allen once said: “If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.”...
...Recounting especially Monet’s relationship with his Japanese collectors, this catalogue to a current German exhibition reveals stunning paintings — Monet, Manet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Signac, Seurat — from collections...
...Renaissance right up to Rubens and Van Dyck....
...… Pigsticks and Harold and the Incredible Journey, by Alex Milway, Walker Books, RRP£6.99/ Candlewick, RRP$12.99 Would-be famous explorer Pigsticks and his taciturn hamster assistant Harold embark on...
...Michael Slattery, assisted by William Dazeley’s trenchant Ferryman, gave a riveting performance that gradually uncovered a parent’s broken heart as the mime of child abuse and death was enacted....
...Maria Williams, head of lingerie buying at Net-a-Porter, says: “What we’re seeing is a breaking down of boundaries between ready-to-wear and intimates....
...Highlights include Emily Berry and Marianne Burton, as well as the long established yet still innovative Simon Armitage and Hugo Williams....
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