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...For 40 years, a 12th-century walrus-ivory carving on loan to the V&A in London has captured the imagination of museum visitors....
...Torrance, a distinguished biographer of leading Scottish politicians, takes a people-based approach....
...Trees in cities are not, however, rare things. In fact, cities have some of the best tree coverage around....
...of contemporary art provides an alternative view of the Eternal City....
...Northern Irish designer Jonathan Anderson has that kind of confidence in spades....
...She also notes a set of colourful men’s silk waistcoats from the 18th century pulled from the V&A collection....
...Marley’s life (he died of cancer in 1981, aged 36) is chronicled in Esther Anderson and Gian Godoy’s 2011 documentary Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend....
...plays out in the shadow of the Windrush scandal, of resurgent xenophobia and of a terrible new conflict. ★★★★★ To April 30, nationaltheatre.org.uk Henry V Donmar Warehouse, London At the Donmar Warehouse...
...This week Arm was once again the subject of serious soul-searching in the City of London....
...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...
...Mountbatten, in 1979 and, in 1984, another that came close to assassinating Margaret Thatcher; incendiary riots in the heart of British cities; the horrifying deaths of 72 people in the Grenfell Tower fire...
...These films depict all strata of society and walks of life — from Dalit (Untouchable) peasants to dissolute aristocrats — in villages, towns and cities....
...Quite how this week’s reports from the UK High Court that Musk challenged Johnny Depp to a cage fight as part of feud over the affections of the actress Amber Heard have gone down with Anderson remain unclear...
...To further boost morale the Ministry of Information even helped transform Shakespeare’s Henry V into a glossy movie starring Laurence Olivier....
...They have found fans in Meghan Markle, iPhone designer Johnny Ive and the executive floor of LVMH, which took a minority stake in the business through its venture arm last year....
...Museums are a side hustle: he curated an exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield in 2017, and last month was named a trustee of the board of the V&A. “A shop is a public space. Anyone can come in....
...Its curious name is a portmanteau of Amos Anderson (1878-1961), a Finnish industrialist, newspaper publisher and founder of the Amos Anderson Art Museum, and the former Bio Rex cinema, the neon signs for...
...Johnny Sandelson: Lords below To Lords for the England v Pakistan test where City Insider happened upon some alarming news: the head of South Australia’s trade and investment office in London, Bill Muirhead...
...After a 12-week trial in a windowless courtroom in Southwark Crown Court, which sits on the opposite bank of the Thames from the City, Anderson and Parvizi were acquitted by the jury....
..."Bloody Gina": Donald Trump’s pick to head the CIA, Gina Haspel, is a 30 year veteran of the agency who is widely respected for her political skills as well as being a big fan of singer Johnny Cash, writes...
...My involvement with various institutions such as the V&A and the Serpentine has really opened my eyes....
...Named after Ambridge’s fictional nearest city, the anonymous superfans frequently post letters advising “clients” on the best course of action....
...And the trend has a champion in the shape of Claudio Ranieri, cardigan fan and manager of almost-triumphant Leicester City FC. Follow his lead and wear it with no fuss....
...A child of late empire, he was born in China in August 1936 in the southern city of Kunming, much closer to the borders with the Raj and French Indochina than to what is now called Beijing....
...In spring/summer we get Kent Jones’s praised documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut, strewn with soundbites from Wes Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich, David Fincher....
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