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...As his touring exhibition Wonderful Things – which first showed at the V&A in 2019 – opens at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles next month, a new selection of Walker’s works will also be available to...
...Those who donate to the V&A want to memorialise their own or another’s life through style....
...And though I’ve never been much of a cardigan man — I’ve always found the close-cut, fine-gauge, V-front versions a bit Miami pensioner, while heavyweight shawl-collar cardigans, on the other hand, have...
...Today, the most potent symbol of social distancing is the face mask, and institutions including the V&A are already researching examples to collect....
...Works by Joy Division and New Order are among the rock history on show....
...Their joy cannot efface the anguish and the pain of the families of the thousands of disappeared who waited in vain for their own in this place.”...
...“None of us are saints but I think we should tread lightly,” he says, before affirming that he uses no pesticides or chemicals....
...It also hosted the unforgotten England v Argentina match of the 1998 World Cup....
...and saint’s days....
...In 2000, the soon-to-be Russian president Vladimir Putin nestled up to Tony Blair when the then British prime minister visited the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg....
...It’s also a joy to witness the pairing of two “Crucifixions”....
...“All I want,” he says, “is for people to experience a sense of joy when they wear my clothes.”...
...In contrast was the unfettered joy of Tom Wortley, a young plasterer from Windsor, who is making his life on the island with his Saint Helenian partner....
...Seeing Santa impaled by a Flying V guitar, as in the “Zombie Christmas” video, is some tongue in some cheek....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Blue was Kandinsky’s “heavenly colour”; riders, his favourite motif, derived from icons and denoted spiritual liberation, often evoking St George, Russia’s patron saint....
...Other influences on the Roman scene included Fra Angelico, called in 1447 to fresco Pope Nicholas V’s private chapel....
...Another, not so incidental reason, was to raise money for the Fondation Clair Bois, which is devoted to the care and careers of the severely handicapped in Geneva, and I mention with gratitude the sponsorship...
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