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...It all works fine, as it should for £242mn, with £99.05mn coming from HM Government and £7mn National Lottery funding from Arts Council England, making it the biggest cultural investment in the UK since Tate...
...The UK competition regulator has warned that a sugar deal between the makers of Tate & Lyle and Whitworths could push up the price of the staple for British shoppers, and has given the companies until next...
...exhibition juxtaposing pioneers of the first Parisian avant-garde in the 1860s-80s demonstrated the Orsay in full force: Manet’s “The Balcony” and Degas’s “The Bellelli Family”, Manet’s “Olympia” and Degas’s “L’...
...His skinless man, “L’Ecorché” (1902), a debut made in coloured plaster as an anatomical teaching aid, astonished compatriots with its expressive power....
...These included the top lot of the art auction, another Monet — “Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, temps couvert” (1891) — for $26.5mn ($30.8mn with fees, est $30mn-$40mn)....
...The proliferation of these stones reflects a culture that delights in trompe l’oeil playfulness, whether in rock collecting or cuisine....
...The pre-cubist structure of staggered houses on a hill, “Sea at L’Estaque behind Trees”, belonged to Picasso, and a vibrant, tightly organised “Gulf of Marseilles” to Gustave Caillebotte....
...He was introduced to British audiences at Gimpel Fils gallery in 1947, then at Tate’s exhibition in 1963....
...For the exhibition finale, I would have preferred a reimagining of the more theatrical “L’Atteso” (2018), for which he filled Turin’s OGR arts centre with abandoned cars and vans....
...A couple of months ago I spotted Sarca at Tate Modern, wearing an electric blue pair of her own creation with black trousers and a simple black top. She looked stylish and at ease....
...Soaking up these changing scenographies that wash over the Lightroom like waves, visitors at last week’s preview were already lying dreamily on the (carpeted) floor — reminiscent of Tate audiences at Olafur...
...“You can’t be nude [in public], but you can wear costumes with trompe l’oeil body parts,” she says. “Absurd! Here, I’ll show you.”...
...Gauguin’s “Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven” (1888) is a Brittany scene, painted with the colours of Martinique, which Sant bought for $2.9mn at auction in 2000 and now has a $6mn-$8mn estimate....
...Picture-perfect Provence The career-spanning Cézanne exhibition at London’s Tate Modern is attracting crowds, as is the landscape of his birth....
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...You enter at the magic wardrobe of Jean Marcel’s “Armoire Surréaliste”, with its panels giving on to trompe l’oeil blue skies, and follow Dorothea Tanning’s nightmare corridor of locked doors and outlandish...
...Tate displays the group in brilliant context....
...His guests included Bordeaux specialist writer Jeff Leve, who had been flown in from Los Angeles and, like others, put up at The Connaught; Hong Kong-based Master of Wine Jeannie Cho Lee; New York-based...
...Tate Britain’s 2017 Queer British Art show, commemorating 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales, featured “Bathing”, a 1911 work by the Bloomsbury Group’...
...“Will l be allowed to have a cleaner, or a driver? I don’t drive a car . . . maybe my stepdaughter will drive....
...This is where I like to come after a visit to Tate St Ives, and where I send friends looking for places to stay in Cornwall....
...Housed at Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum, this picture was the missing jewel from the crown of Tate’s momentous Picasso 1932 exhibition in 2018....
...Then there’s Tate Dining Room, where chef Vicky Lau’s food is pushing all creative boundaries. The menu is Chinese food executed with French finesse....
...In 2003, he conjured light and fog in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall for the immersive exhibition The Weather Project. In 2008, he built four towering waterfalls in Manhattan’s East River....
...The exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders opened in February at Tate Modern in London; less than a week later, at Sotheby’s in London, René Magritte’s 1961 painting “L’empire des lumières” sold for £59.4mn...
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