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...The designer’s love of wood is explored through simple lines: his Ode chair references the tradition of workshop chairs with its generously rounded back and an inverted V-style base, while the archetypal...
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...The V&A’s installation in a single bright, open-plan gallery is spectacular in another way — immersive, modern....
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...In reduced version, Donatello is at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie (to January 8), then arrives at London’s V&A in February; both museums contribute key loans....
...Memorabilia in the V&A’s exhibition includes racing driver Jackie Stewart’s helmet with its Royal Stewart tartan band; weird personal objects include a Hillman Imp car with entire tartan interior and matching...
...In the foreground, Mutu’s red soil, wood-entwined figure “Sentinel V” presides like a grotesque goddess — part Earth mother, part vengeful spirit....
...The latter, the V&A’s gently graduated relief, with weeping angels in the void of the tomb, is a poetic highlight, asserting Donatello, even in tragic themes, as fundamentally consoling and tender....
...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...
...Another sensuous, fluid new painting, “Wobbly V with Bunches”, pink blossom encrusted on misty green, reminded me of late Cy Twombly, and of Francesco Clemente’s comment that in old age Twombly “sailed away...
...Also in February, Game of Thrones star Kit Harington plays Henry V in a new, modern staging of Shakespeare’s play that promises to explore our relationship with Europe and what it means to be English (Donmar...
...There was also the “pretty scary moment in 2014” when they suspended a revolving metal, mirrored installation the length of a Boeing 737-700 for BMW in London’s V&A Museum....
...whether you choose a historically compatible piece, or break from tradition and go for something else,” says Will Fisher of Jamb, a Belgravia store that could easily be mistaken for a homely offshoot of the V&...
...group, Levete and AL_A – the practice she established in 2009 alongside co-directors Ho-Yin Ng, Alice Dietsch and Maximiliano Arrocet – are most known for their work on the contemporary wing of London’s V&...
...our vaccine tracker Latest news The UK has added India to the ‘red list’ of countries from which travel is severely restricted because of the surge in Covid-19 cases The developers of Russia’s Sputnik V...
...The EU drug regulator is also to launch an investigation next week into whether clinical trials of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine contravened ethical and scientific standards....
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough” beneath skies heaving with cherubs are the feeblest late-runners in a genre whose apogee — directness, vigour, suggestions of contained power — was Titian’s “Charles V”...
...And incredibly, children are most eager to spend their money on books, magazines and sweets — cue happy memories of Jackie magazine and Mojo penny chews, in my case....
...That price includes a butler, chef and a chauffeured Mercedes V Class to zip guests around the island....
...On the stone façade of Palazzo Chiaramonte in Palermo, there are grooves left by the iron cages in which hung the severed heads of aristocrat rebels against Emperor Charles V....
...Hans Mielich’s earnest “Albrecht V of Bavaria” has brought his wide-eyed pet lion....
...In “Charles I on Horseback”, the king is remote, high above our stirrup level viewpoint, almost godly; pose and woodland setting echo Titian’s famous equestrian portrait of Charles V....
...Bill Bensley, its designer, says he was inspired by the 1967 visit of Jackie Kennedy, the former US first lady, and tried to re-create the kind of camping experience she might have had when, hosted by King...
...A top might have a cut-out detail, and there were deep V necklines and some short skirts, but most of the women’s looks were sleeved, midi-length and long....
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