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...Jackie Doyle-Price, the Conservative MP for Thurrock, refused to join the frenzy. “The stories about immigration and Brexit are all about broken promises....
...To November 24, labiennale.org Jackie Wullschläger’s pick of the pavilions...
...Johann Zoffany’s “The Family of Sir William Young” (1767-68), set on a bucolic English estate, centres on music-making and riding; the black servant is the only allusion to the source of Sir William’s fortune...
...This aim was written into William Wilkins’ gracefully restrained, modestly scaled neoclassical building, speaking authority without intimidation....
...Art historians Catherine Lampert, 77, and William Feaver, 81, come weekly. “It’s human contact now, as well. I spend all my time totally alone.”...
...They begin with his early direct style: “Catherine Moore” (1752), fiancée of architect William Chambers, meets us with a frank, intelligent gaze....
...Wagtail, 68 King William St, London EC4; wagtaillondon.com The Terrace at Norma A slice of Sicily on a corner of Fitzrovia....
...Sir William Lyons created it and almost destroyed the Italian designers because it was so beautiful. The place that means a lot to me is the Western Highlands of Scotland....
...A superb room of William Blake’s and Chris Ofili’s iridescent, mysterious watercolours absorbingly converges formal and intellectual concerns — blending figure and background, popular culture segueing into...
...Friedman, a retail veteran who famously took the Williams-Sonoma-owned Pottery Barn business from a $50mn tableware business to a $1bn-plus furniture brand as its president, has transformed the fortunes...
...Faro’s Nur Suzani parasol is embellished with crewel embroidery and block print, and East London Parasol Company’s painterly Lexham, which is inspired by the whirls of William de Morgan, sits on a hand-carved...
...“Picasso was a phenomenon,” said its curator William Rubin. “There is virtually nothing in modern art that Picasso has not invented, practised or at least influenced.”...
...William Kentridge Contemporary exhibition of the year was the Royal Academy’s William Kentridge....
...What an elegiac, unexpected and wonderful exhibition London’s Royal Academy offers for the largest-ever showing of William Kentridge in the UK....
...Wagtail London, 68 King William Street, London EC4; wagtaillondon.com Yauatcha City’s “Cities of the Future” terrace The terrace here is all low-lit neon and chilled vibes....
...“I have always said that the path to victory for Labour passes through Scotland,” said Jackie Baillie, the party’s deputy leader in Scotland who sees opportunity in Sturgeon’s departure....
...A slice of modernism, completed in 1983, it houses one of Scotland’s finest art collections: some 9,000 artefacts amassed over a lifetime by Sir William Burrell and Constance, Lady Burrell....
...“In France one lives in the imagination of the past; in England everything is new and on an improved plan,” the essayist William Hazlitt wrote....
...But you know, Jackie Doyle Price yesterday on the radio saying it was insane to go into this election talking about small boats, an issue which we are not going to tackle, we’re not competent on....
...Wonnacott is lyrical, comic, playing the ornately gilded surrounding against contemporary dress and informality — lanky William, Harry clambering over a sofa....
...One is decked out in a red turban and an embroidered bust of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, another in Rasta canopy hat and William Blake’s print of a tortured slave....
...The 360-degree rooftop bar at the top of the building: a perch to sip sundowners and drink in the views. 68 King William St, EC; book at wagtaillondon.com 4 Il Giardino at The Berkeley Last year’s Berkeley...
...Diana’s life was so eventful: she was a latter-day Jackie O, glimpsed on yachts with a playboy, in Paris, and then, unbelievably, gone....
...Gustav Metzger’s film of throwing acid at dissolving fabric on the South Bank, allowing fragmentary views of the city, in “Auto-Destructive Art”; William Turnbull’s totemic bronzes of endurance, with ravaged...
...“Marinated in hilarity” was how William Hogarth described the soldiers drinking, pissing, vomiting, stealing, brawling, flirting among the crowd in his painting “The March of the Guards to Finchley”....
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