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...Now this rare masterpiece, “The Deposition from the Cross”, has been sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in a transaction brokered by Sotheby’s....
...The process of traditional upholstery, Gibb says, “breathes new life into existing furniture and creates a piece that is totally unique”....
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...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...“They all have these backgrounds, these life stories where they have overcome something. It’s not illustrated in their work but their work draws from it in some way. So that was one of the criteria.”...
...London is about the grand gesture planning of the new Stratford, where the V&A East museum is taking shape, and it is about Mare Street market, which maintains a lively balance between street food vendors...
...As a result, she says, the V&A has acquired works including the Beautiful ring from the A Beautiful Life series by London-based American jeweller Jacqueline Rabun and an Ebony Revolution necklace by Simone...
...Lest that sound like metropolitan snobbery, take note that another newspaper crops up in Caret....
...Family life and professional life were mixed together, which meant we shared so much. That’s what I miss the most.”...
...Gone is McVicar’s twist on Verdi’s deus-ex-machina ending: rather than having the ghost of emperor Charles V spirit Don Carlo away from the Inquisitor’s vengeance, as written, McVicar had earlier resurrected...
...In London, too, February is going to be a gala month, with the cream of the crop being the V&A’s hosting of the magnificent display of the works of Donatello — possibly the first ever in the British capital...
...We see “die-ins” and other attention-grabbing protests at institutions such as the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan museum and the V&A....
...In the 70 years that Don Carlos has enriched the Metropolitan Opera’s repertory, the Schiller-based saga of familial and political conflict has become one of Verdi’s most treasured operas....
...In the case of her wrap dress, versions of which are now held in the Smithsonian and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, it was designed for the “woman in charge”....
...Yet as Dominic Lieven points out, empire — where a metropolitan centre, home to a distinct people, rules over a multiplicity of different peoples — is the most common form of government over recorded history...
...After all, a photo of Selassie’s coronation in 1930 showed King George V’s son on bended knee before him....
...But he sees an additional imbalance to address: the dominance of a liberal, metropolitan bubble....
...So you have Suella Braverman coming out and saying people live the life of Riley, essentially....
...A star trio of women’s voices — Julia Bullock, Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara — tug at the heartstrings with “Migratory V”. Part two, Work, follows on February 24; Love in April; Faith in May....
...Then there are the 7m visitors a year to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met), where a 1910 sapphire necklace by Louis Comfort Tiffany is on display....
...I’m a metropolitan being at heart so my trips this summer will most likely be taken to this country’s cities rather than to a windswept beach....
...Art lovers of all walks of life are looking to experiment with how they frame – or reframe – the pieces they love....
...There was also the “pretty scary moment in 2014” when they suspended a revolving metal, mirrored installation the length of a Boeing 737-700 for BMW in London’s V&A Museum....
...You probably know from OECD statistics that the US is way down the list in terms of quality of life indicators. Indeed taxes buy quality of life for the majority....
...would not find the latter in Jane Austen, but it has historical relevance: “I can but think of London as a kind of mistress; dissolute in principles, loose in practice and extravagant in pleasure,” Anne Ingram...
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