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...In Rubens’ beautiful sketch of the diplomat aesthete Thomas Howard, we watch a person come into being: head in sensitive black-and-red chalk outline; details of curly hair, thick eyebrows and moustache,...
...For a fairer measure of Cameron, go upstairs: the NPG’s permanent collection has her craggy, unyielding “Thomas Carlyle”, author of On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History....
...Thomas Adès’s radical, disturbing The Exterminating Angel, based on Buñuel’s film of a bourgeois party descending into savagery, has its French premiere at the Bastille Opera next month....
...The Victorian purpose was to showcase lives worthy of emulation — a bricks-and-mortar equivalent of On Heroes, the manifesto for biography by Thomas Carlyle, instrumental in the gallery’s founding....
...the camera’s neutrality and austere formalist composition, derived from painting, continue the thread: Andreas Gursky’s panoramas of crowds and apartment blocks “May Day IV” and “Paris, Montparnasse”, Thomas...
...Dear Jackie and Bar Jackie, its Italian-inflected restaurant and boîte, will be open to the public, while a second dining lounge is for residents only....
...In Los Angeles, a squat, faintly Art Deco style desk in ebonised birch at which Jackie Collins wrote many of her wildly popular raunchy novels, sold in 2017 for £5,500 — more than twice its lowest estimate...
...Monet’s immersive “Nymphéas” triptych faces the Beyeler’s own actual lily pond — this one presided over by Thomas Schütte’s chunkily appealing, water-spitting “Hare” (2013)....
...Tudors, Stuarts and Georgians got the best artists: Holbein, Van Dyck, Thomas Lawrence. Europe had the same allegiance of genius to power: Titian and Velázquez painted the Habsburgs, Goya the Bourbons....
...These are glorious comic pieces, more transgressive now than when Thomas set down his characters’ dreams in entirely gender-stereotypical terms....
...Moving up to the present day, Nigerian-Scottish designer Olubiyi Thomas has created a brand-new tartan for the V&A....
...Jackie Lebo is obsessed with what makes the successful runners from Kenya stand out. Binyavanga is taking on everything. The synergies are electric....
...The faux-classical American pavilion, modelled on slave-owner President Thomas Jefferson’s grand house, is briefly unrecognisable — draped in thatch with wooden columns to suggest a 1930s west African home...
Lent by the Huntington Museum to the National Gallery, it is a virtuosic meditation on youth
...Born in 1830 on the Caribbean island of St Thomas to French-Jewish merchants, Pissarro did not settle in Paris until 1855, and fell immediately under the influence of Corot’s fresh, delicate realism — his...
...Jackie Choy, Asia director for ETF research at data provider Morningstar, says that while his firm has identified China as one of the largest markets for sustainable investment outside the US and Europe,...
...My style icon is Jackie O, but that’s not practical for me. So I’d say someone who can just throw on a pair of jeans and look amazing, like Gwyneth Paltrow....
...He courted Hong Kong tycoons as investors at card games and enlisted Chinese movie stars such as Fan Bingbing and Jackie Chan to help market his products....
...Entitled Nursery, it depicts a cannabis farm — among Thomas Demand’s monumental images asking what man and nature are doing to each other....
...Arts Club of Chicago, April 9-August 7, artsclubchicago.org; Tate Britain, December 1-April 3 2022, tate.org.uk, solo exhibition at Thomas Dane Gallery, October-December, thomasdanegallery.com...
...And secondly, a book on which I sought a second, expert opinion: Jackie Weaver’s You Do Have the Authority Here!...
...Some see him as a mystic visionary; others interpret the Divine Comedy as Thomas Aquinas’s Aristotelian Catholicism put into verse....
...Taking on Thomas Mann is no easy task, but Tóibín’s fictional account of the inner life of the great German novelist is masterful....
...Thomas Cromwell, star of Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of historical novels and the RSC plays based on them, makes his final journey from page to stage in The Mirror and the Light....
...Affecting, urgent, it sends the visitor back to Old Master suffering, to bleeding Christs and doubting Thomas’s poking flesh — Cima’s “Incredulity of St Thomas” in room 57 here, Guercino’s in room 32....
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