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...Singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading has plunged into classical waters at the deep end with her Symphony No 1, composed during the pandemic and given its premiere by Chineke! Orchestra at the weekend....
...“Joan of Arc led men into battle but she never used her sword; she didn’t actually have to use violence,” she says....
...Specifically with the young actress Joan Barry, who filed a paternity suit against him....
...This follows last year’s landmark Joan Mitchell presentation; Ellsworth Kelly comes next spring. 6....
...“I was watching The Dropout with Konnie, which is the drama about [Theranos founder] Elizabeth Holmes,” says Brooker....
...In between those Oscars, she won her first Bafta for Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Emmy awards for her stunning performance as Elizabeth I in the BBC’s timeless mini-series, Elizabeth R....
...Initially he imagined that perhaps she had just gone into hiding — magical thinking echoing Joan Didion’s....
...Sojo has recently acquired zero-emissions courier Spedal as a logistics partner, so a quick zip fix can now be conducted guilt-free. sojo.uk Charlene Prempeh Eva Joan, New YorkThe studio celebrates mending...
...It’s perhaps no accident that novelists have a knack for evoking empathy: Runcie and McCracken join memoirists with fiction under their belts including Lewis, Adichie, Joan Didion, Julian Barnes and Yiyun...
...The timed estate sale of Joan Didion’s personal effects earlier this month was one such auction....
...The two had met several years ago with an eye to collaborating on a film Field had written with Joan Didion, but nothing came of it....
...The spirit of Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) is pervasive and invisible....
...“Imagine if [people] said Queen Elizabeth II is going to go bankrupt?” said a top executive at a Spanish bank. “She isn’t. Barcelona has intangible assets which will never disappear.”...
...When he subsequently fell in love with Joan Plowright, Leigh finally gave him a divorce....
...Joan Didion and Curtis Sittenfeld....
...When I ask how old she is, she says, “Joan Collins once said if a woman will tell you her age, she will tell you anything. So that’s my answer. I have no age.”...
...On the opposite side I’ll put Joan Didion, between me and Ernest Hemingway....
...Alice Neel’s painting Ginny and Elizabeth (1975) features a yellow rollneck, while a window blind in Still Life, Rose of Sharon (1973) may have inspired my bathroom’s recent revamp....
...“There’s this snag with pears,” says pear expert Joan Morgan, “that you have to buy them unripe and ripen them at home, so there’s not the instant satisfaction of an apple.”...
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, which she wrote after her husband died in 2003. It’s an incredibly raw and honest account of loss....
...Now her collection comprises more than 150 artists, many of them women, including Sarah Lucas, Elizabeth Peyton, Diane Arbus, Joan Mitchell, Sophie Calle, Cindy Sherman, Rebecca Warren and Zanele Muholi....
...Notable works include Ithell Colquhoun’s dreamlike paintings, Elizabeth Andrews’s sinuous sculptures, and French artist Claude Cahun’s theatrical photographs....
...Or else the meek refugee Vera Chiang (Elizabeth Tan), whose designs on Matthew, the newly wealthy heir to a rubber empire, may be equally nefarious but are at least better disguised....
...Elizabeth Burney was a criminal psychologist who collected works expressing, she felt, pathos and empathy with suffering humanity: Käthe Kollwitz’s sombre “Woman with her Head Bent”, Georges Rouault’s skeletal...
...Ten of Brown’s well-known artists, including Joan Jonas, Alex Katz and Rirkrit Tiravanija, join Gladstone Gallery with him....
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