Hints and tips:
...(You aren’t getting served a 2007 Clos Saint-Jacques at a journalist’s house.) The rest is a columnist’s need for ideas....
...Even though, in 1928, artist Jacques-Émile Blanche said that Sargent was “notorious in Paris, and in Venice, positively scandalous. He was a frenzied bugger.”...
...Greece, as host country for the Our Ocean conference, launched as a US state department initiative by John Kerry in 2014, this week announced an expansion of its marine protected areas in the Ionian and...
...There aren’t any boundaries,” he says over tea one January afternoon, dressed in his uniform of a navy Loro Piana knit, black jeans and John Lobb moccasins....
...Richard Wright London NW8, UK Letter in response to this letter: Draghi’s vision of the EU is why Brexiters wanted out / From John Murray, Guildford, Surrey, UK...
...A handful — Britain’s John Akomfrah, France’s Julien Creuzet — produced the most impressive pavilions of 2024, as did, on tight budgets, several “Global South” countries (see my top five choices below)....
...It was only in 1995 that President Jacques Chirac fully acknowledged the French state’s shameful complicity in the deportation of 75,000 Jews....
...The latter has a starring role in John Gray’s apartment in 9½ Weeks and vintage editions sell for around £2,000....
...Jacques says the history of the street is also part of the attraction: “Robert Fraser, John Kasmin, James Mayor, Bernard Jacobson were all here and are examples of gallerist-dealers who were true connoisseurs...
...A daughter, Kate Barry, from a relationship with composer John Barry, died in 2013 at 46....
...He became obsessed with John Coltrane, whose group he saw roughly 50 times, and he discovered African and Indonesian music....
...What was conceived as a technology for capturing the world as it was — art critic John Ruskin said a daguerreotype was “very nearly the same thing as carrying off the palace itself” — instead became subject...
...Letter in response to this article: Where cryptocurrencies resemble Ponzi schemes / From Jean Jacques Chenier, Paris, France...
...I also give out copies of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing like the Bible. There’s a brilliant chapter about being naked and the nude....
...Highlights include the last work of art Mercury bought, James Jacques Tissot’s painting “Type of Beauty” (1880; est £400,000-£600,000), which hung in his drawing room at his Garden Lodge home in Kensington...
...Letta, the president of the Jacques Delors institute, has embarked on a tour of European capitals to, as he puts it, “come out of the Brussels bubble to listen to worries on the ground”....
...None was more adept than Jacques-Louis David, sobered from his radical Jacobin passion by a spell in prison following the fall of Robespierre....
...[but] it usually doesn’t last very long,” said Jean Jacques Guiony, chief financial officer....
...You can read more on the Lyon deal in our profile of multiclub operator John Textor....
...Wine writer John Livingstone-Learmonth of drinkrhone.com has decades of experience of Rhône wines and their makers....
...“The source material was the work of a younger man — younger than I am now, and certainly younger than Jacques Audiard....
...Picasso always refused to drive himself, for fear of “ruining” his hands, as he told artist Georges Braque, as recounted by art historian John Richardson in Un Soir à Boisgeloup (2013)....
...They open with Jacques-Émile Blanche’s hypnotising, pale-faced portrait of the 21-year-old dandy with an orchid in his buttonhole....
...Letter in response to this article: Wine, inflation hedges and the greater fool theory / From John W Ward, Brewster, MA, US...
...Emily St John Mandel came to fame as the author of Station Eleven (2014)....
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