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...England 50+ first team finished second to the US, who they narrowly beat last year. The two nations are currently closely matched....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...In another section nearby, a Petrus Christus “Virgin and Child” was being prepared for travel to a museum in the US....
...A later artist, Ayana V Jackson, poses her “Anarcha” (2017) like an Orientalist odalisque, but the tender image of her turned back suggests not so much exotic allure as vulnerability....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Despite being removed from pipes, paint and petrol decades ago, the metal is the preferred choice for most British shooters....
...Following her death in 2009, her first major US museum exhibition in over 50 years is being staged at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art....
...Later, we loitered at the pipe where fresh water pumped in, warming our hands as we might by a fire. It’s not a fancy place — the “changing rooms” are bare, the walls painted concrete....
...That’s the target of Valuable 500’s “Gen V” mentoring scheme, which pairs a senior executive with a young disabled employee....
...Behind Joan, played by Isobel Thom, at the back of the stage is a half-pipe of the kind used by skateboarders — which actors will run up and slide back down — and a band....
...For Richard Jackson, neon is a counterpoint to the “high-minded secret language that has been around since minimalism, that only people in the art world or with an education can understand....
...What are US credit markets telling us about the economy?...
...Newcomers also include Waddington Custot and design specialists Jacksons from Sweden....
...Five hundred years before Magritte was teasing us that his pipe was not a pipe, Crivelli (c1430/35-c1494) was pointing out the same thing....
...As shown by Peter Jackson’s new Get Back documentary, their telepathic closeness persisted until the very end of The Beatles....
...“An offset V-peak lapel, a signature shape first created by the legendary Huntsman head cutter Colin Hammick, cheats the eye and makes the wearer look well proportioned, and even athletic.”...
...Water pipes criss-crossed the walls. Arched windows completed the prison aesthetic. It was, a journalist at the time wrote, a “forbidding cellarage”....
...She was the first African model to star on the cover of US Elle, in November 1997, at a time when the industry was arguing that black models didn’t sell magazines....
...In the US, start-ups are exploring alternatives to VC funding....
...The V&A’s reconstructions of shabby but infinitely layered and complex ad hoc British mosques is very striking and among the most memorable displays....
...The FT has summarised this in a note at the end of the article to reflect the position as outlined to us....
...She argued that while markets were pricing in a V-shaped recovery for the US economy, “we are expecting something less resilient”, after US jobless claims rose back above 1m last week....
...For four decades, a parking garage, festering and fetid, in Chelsea, a neighbourhood in Manhattan, drew crowds that included Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, Catherine Deneuve, Michael Jackson, art dealers, junk...
...UK ministers and media branded Monday “V-Day” as the first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine were administered....
...My family rented the place, then when they ran out of money they sold it to us, plus 10 acres of shore-front property, for $14,500 cash....
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