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...V&A Craft Symposium (May 16) Panel discussions and keynote speeches on the topic of craft, as well as demonstrations of goldwork, featherwork, silversmithing and weaving....
...(Employ America) — Ted Koppel is a respected newscaster who probably shouldn’t have taken the call from Isaac Chotiner. (New Yorker, metered paywall) More context from WaPo ($)....
...It fetched 51,000 francs — six times the estimate — and was bequeathed to the Wallace Collection....
...Finally, do read David Wallace-Wells’ bracing NYT essay on whether America is ready for back-to-back pandemics....
...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...
...He’s only five percentage points behind Keir Starmer in the polls on who make the best prime minister as opposed to 20-something on the Labour v Tory one....
...to Winston Rodney of Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs, Big Youth and Jacob Miller....
...V Vaccination Pretty much the only thing that stood between Novak Djokovic and this year’s Australian Open title. Oops....
...On loan from the V&A, it’s an intricate, flashy conundrum that mixes eras, ideas and techniques with breathtaking audacity....
...London’s exhibition season began with psychedelic tea parties and disappearing rabbits in the V&A’s immersive wonderland Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser and ended with translucent, spidery, electricified...
...This is not just a recent phenomenon: Adam quotes Mark Jones, former director of London’s V&A, on Richard Wallace (1818-90), founder of the Wallace Collection, who “was an outsider, because of being illegitimate...
...Published posthumously, they rivalled those of his friend Samuel Pepys and, says the V&A museum, are “perhaps the greatest record of morals, manners and tastes of the leading personalities in the reign of...
...Isaac Freckleton Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, UK...
...Isaac Wright Jr was a New Jersey music producer sentenced to life in 1991 for leading a cocaine trafficking ring....
...Chinese companies need a back-up chip architecture, as do Nvidia’s US rivals, and Risc-V is Arm’s obvious replacement....
...“After tonight, Donald Trump will have to run against a candidate, not a caricature,” Mr Wallace told his viewers....
...Should we expect the V&A’s exhibition to explore this difficult territory?...
...Pre-recorded videos and live panel discussions with museums including the V&A, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Hong Kong Museum of Art will also feature....
...Although the Conservatives appear to be well-placed to win on December 12, campaign manager Isaac Levido last week reminded staff that the Tory poll lead is currently lower than Theresa May’s at this stage...
...With the dealer the picture of conservative masculine elegance, in his cashmere V-neck and tie leaning on an antique chair, a touch of melancholy in his eyes, the image has curious poignancy....
...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....
...Camilla Wallace, partner and head of private client group at Wedlake Bell, says your parents are right to be concerned....
...Victoria Miro Gallery offers the remaining 49 silkscreen sets as part of its Rock My Soul exhibition, curated by the artist Isaac Julien, for between £10,000 and £25,000 (stepped upwards as each edition...
...When Sarkissian arrives, dressed in a grey pinstriped suit and a black V-neck jumper, he says he is fighting off a cold and orders a little cherry-flavoured vodka and a Coca-Cola....
...Once I was done wincing at all its many simplifications, the absence of fellow evolutionary pioneer Alfred Russel Wallace and all the rest of it, it dawned on me that this jumped-up, family-friendly puppet...
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