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...Aberconway House, a vast 1920s home near Hyde Park, will change hands after a sale was agreed by Dominika Kulczyk, daughter of the late businessman Jan Kulczyk, who was Poland’s richest man....
...At the time, he had been helping “destroy the planet”, in his words, as an intern at a Singapore commodities house buying coal for Chinese power plants....
...Instead, a great love is opera: “I’ve loved the Royal Opera House for ever” — the Clore Studio there was opened in 1999 — “and I can’t believe how we manage to do what we do with next to nothing....
...Jousset sees it as “a fine irony that the house of the dictator who hated art will become a house for artists”. There’s more....
...European, oh a house of perspective, slightly different aesthetic values, a kind of adventure to go on and then spend the last hour screaming, get me out of here! (Laughter) Is this ever gonna end?...
...Jan Turnquist, Orchard House’s executive director, says that “people comment that it still feels like the Alcotts were here a moment ago and many say that it is like walking through [Little Women]!”...
...It has nothing to do with either hills or California, apparently: it’s set in Blackpool in the hot summer of 1976, and involves (in distant shades of Chekhov) two sisters and a boarding house....
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...de Goya (Room 67) In Room 67 are Goya’s so-called “Black Paintings”, made towards the end of his life from 1820 to 1823 — terrifying and enigmatic pieces created for the walls of the artist’s country house...
...For support or more information about adverse meditation experiences, take a look at the Cheetah House website....
...The house-museum (the couple no longer live there) is only part of Sa Bassa Blanca....
...One was its importance as a publishing hub, spurred by mid-16th-century entrepreneurs such as Hieronymus Cock and Christophe Plantin, founder of the Plantin printing house, now the Museum Plantin-Moretus...
...He is now secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council Almost 30 years ago, as a young Norwegian diplomat, I sat on the lawn of the White House and watched US president Bill Clinton host two sworn...
...— from queer South African artist Igshaan Adams’s vast beaded tapestries (recently shown at Thomas Dane’s London gallery) to Billie Zangewa’s intimate stitched silk collages (at Glasgow’s Tramway until Jan...
...Besides its famous eponymous altarpiece, attributed to Jan van Eyck and his brother Hubert, there are artisans, antiques dealers, perfect dim cafés, lovely public gardens and MSK, the city’s museum of fine...
...Also timed to coincide with Frieze New York is a new art fair, Esther, which runs in the Estonian House in Murray Hill, May 1-4....
...The Penguin series’ Modernist graphic design, under the auspices of German Modernist Jan Tschichold, allows them to fit perfectly into the mid-century interiors that are still so enduringly popular among...
...Lisa St Aubin de Terán burst on to the UK literary scene in 1982 aged 29, with her autobiographical novel Keepers of the House....
...In the UK, Sam Beckett, chief economic adviser to the Treasury, told the House of Lords economic affairs committee last month: “People are less and less willing to participate in these long door-to-door...
...The recent lull prompted UK defence secretary Grant Shapps to tell the House of Commons last week that attacks on vessels had become “less sophisticated and more sporadic” following the bombing campaign....
...Maybe the picture in the Met’s collection really was painted by Jan Brueghel the Elder, as originally thought, or Jan Brueghel the Younger, as later decided, or the current attribution, “Circle of Jan Brueghel...
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