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...In Barrie Kosky’s must-see production, US soprano Lise Lindstrom sings Salome and British tenor John Daszak is Herod, while Swedish mezzo-soprano Katarina Dalayman plays Herodias....
...Emerging from Darkness: Faith, Emotion and the Body in the Baroque’, Hamilton Gallery A significant display of European Baroque art centred around three female painters: Artemisia Gentileschi, Lavinia Fontana...
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Lucio Fontana, the Argentine-Italian painter known for slashing his canvases....
...When Maurizio Cattelan sculpted Pope John Paul II lifelike in wax and resin, crushed by a meteorite, a pathetic fallen figure in his gleaming white cassock, clinging to his silver crucifix, his face crumpled...
...“I think of the texture a bit like a Lucio Fontana painting. It’s all white but then there’s the cut in the middle. It creates such interesting depth.”...
...From here, walk towards the Fontana della Carlotta, located at the foot of a long flight of steps that leads up to Piazza Giuseppe Sapeto....
...Her show was bookended with a pair of statements intended to address the situation: it opened with the voice of President John F Kennedy reading his 1963 “A Strategy of Peace” address and ended with John...
...The result was a paperback in 1979, imaginatively titled The Wine Book, published by Fontana with an accompanying hardback by A&C Black....
...On her site, she pointed me to Johanna Ortíz’s Pasa Fino boot ($850) and the Fontana knee-high boot by Khaite ($980)....
...They opened their first art space in 1957, exhibiting Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg....
...An exhibition of the postwar European Zero group was of historical importance, and included works by Heinz Mack, Lucio Fontana, and the world’s largest, swimming pool-sized Yves Klein blue floor piece....
...And John Behlmann has a lot of fun as Max Van Horn, a dim-witted Romeo who’s less interested in Juliet than her nurse....
...Nixon had lost the 1960 US presidential election to John F Kennedy. “This was way before Nixon was president,” says Daniels....
...Rainham Hall was built in 1729 by Captain John Harle, a merchant, within sight of the wharf on a Thames tributary where his ships unloaded coal and timber....
...“The Northern League has always been a curse and a blessing — croce e delizia — for Berlusconi,” says Franco Pavoncello, president of John Cabot University in Rome....
...Marcelo Botelho Rodrigues, chief executive of California Steel Industries, said he was unsure whether he could pass on higher costs to customers to save the almost 1,000 jobs at its Fontana mill near San...
...Phillips, June 29 This sale brings together German artists Wolfgang Tillmans, Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz as well as other contemporary names, including Bridget Riley, Lucio Fontana and Jonas Wood...
...I came across it in a junk shop in St John’s. It’s bronze, probably Georgian, and must have come across on a trading ship. I keep it on my windowsill at home....
...Penguin art director Germano Facetti, who arrived in London in the early 1950s, brought over a bunch of Italian illustrators from 1962 onwards, as did John Constable at Fontana Books....
...Some readers have quibbled about the facts of Orwell’s memoir but, as Raymond Williams writes in his 1971 essay for Fontana Modern Masters, this dichotomy between fact and fiction is beside the point....
...The opening show features 33 large-scale colourful abstracts by British artist John Hoyland, all from Hirst’s collection....
...(WaPo) Campaign commentary Sanders and Trump give voice to the voiceless (Ronald Brownstein, Atlantic) The case for a liberal Scalia (David Fontana and Ian Bassin, Slate) How Trump made sauce of Apple...
...The first 19 lots, including pieces by Dan Colen, Barbara Kruger and John Baldessari, have been donated by the artists to benefit Schinkel Pavillon Berlin....
...Portraits: John Berger on Artists, by John Berger, edited by Tom Overton, Verso, RRP£25 / RRP$44.95, 544 pages In Titian’s last masterpiece “The Flaying of Marsyas”, a satyr is strung up and tortured to...
...young aristocrat is portrayed with a loyal spaniel at his feet, the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli in the background and to his side the first-century statue, “Roma Triumphans”, set into Michelangelo’s Fontana...
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