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...April 2 to 14; further information and tickets here May Festivals Piano City Milano The streets are alive with the sound of ivories being tinkled at this perennially popular festival, which last year...
...“I believe that fashion can create jobs,” says LVMH prize finalist Kenneth Ize, who works with weavers in Nigeria to create vibrantly striped textiles for his collections....
...This means middle-income developing countries such as Poland, Chile and the Czech Republic are rated more highly than the likes of Bangladesh, Nigeria and Ivory Coast....
...Do we really need another Howards End (BBC iPlayer and Sundays, BBC1) after Merchant-Ivory’s definitive 1992 film version?...
...Longhi’s monograph on Piero (1928) vaulted the Tuscan artist to historical prominence; it convinced Kenneth Clark that Victorian, pre-Cézanne audiences could never have understood Piero....
...‘Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation’, Tate Britain, London, to August 10, tate.org.uk...
...Sir, Contrary to what Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart state (“Austerity is not the only answer to a debt problem”, Comment, May 2), none of the Keynesians I know believe that “high debt is not a problem...
...Visitors to his childhood home included Katharine Hepburn and Brigitte Bardot, while Bogarde, Kenneth More and John Mills were family friends....
...Despite setbacks in the Ivory Coast, where elections were plagued by violence that drew the country close to civil war, there were improvements in Nigeria, the nation with the biggest population on the...
...This encouraged colonial powers to grab gold, ivory and slaves rather than settling the countries and establishing decent institutions....
...In Carry On at Your Convenience (1971), Kenneth Cope plays Vic Spanner, a shop steward with a Che Guevara moustache and a moped: Fred Kite without the hinterland....
...background of the Napoleonic wars, social change and the flowering of romanticism, a painter working on a “circumscribed terrain …in greater and greater depth” can, like Jane Austen on “a little bit of ivory...
...The gift of this collection, valued at about $300m and built up over half a lifetime by the media baron Kenneth Thomson – the 2nd Lord Thomson of Fleet and Northbridge (1923-2006) – represents the largest...
...its members cried, insisting on gold and ivory. “They didn’t want to save their money,” Lapatin said. “They wanted to show it off.”...
...“People have this idea that I’ve come from this ivory tower,” he says, “but I’ve been shot at, arrested and roughed up.”...
...What would happen to “Las Meninas”, asked Kenneth Clark, “if Maribarbola had been removed and a graceful young lady of the Court put in her place....
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