Hints and tips:
...Cubist Juan Gris turns dressmaker with fanciful blue and yellow Louis XIV costumes for a “Roi Soleil” fête....
...His “Divine Spouse”, intended to focus the minds and ease the days of cloistered nuns, shows a doe-eyed, rosy-lipped Jesus lolling in a bed of flowers and letting a tiny lamb nibble on his bare feet....
...Juan Orlando Hernández has been declared the winner of last month’s disputed presidential election in Honduras after a partial recount....
...Yet the lust for blue and white, tin-glazed ceramics remained, spurred on by Louis XIV’s love of the Chinese porcelain brought to Europe by the Dutch East India Company....
...Kiel has assembled a strong, even cast for the occasion, led by Juan Sancho as a honey-toned, subtly suffering Atys....
...Under Warhol’s “Mao” sits Barthélemy Prieur’s “Lion Devouring a Doe” (c1583)....
...A sense of that opulence and extravagance – and the ambition – which characterised Louis XIV’s Paris is compellingly evoked in the first major exhibition devoted to the art of Boulle, “André Charles Boulle...
...Sabra Perry in the new Bound, choreographed by Nicole Fonte, is at first a quiet presence standing to one side as Juan Rodriguez and Clifford C....
...This year he had his eye on a 19th century billiard table, some extremely rare Louis XIV armchairs and a canopy from the dealer Jacques Perrin....
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