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...In one in-progress painting, the LA horizon appears behind a slight haze of digital noise....
...The headline act is Picasso’s portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter, “Femme à la montre” (1932), carrying an estimate of more than $120mn....
...“It’s an old song,” sings Melanie La Barrie’s mischievous Hermes at the opening of Hadestown. “It’s a sad tale, it’s a tragedy. It’s a sad song. We’re gonna sing it anyway.”...
...Courtney Treut, most recently at Sean Kelly in LA, has been hired as director, while programming for the courtyard will be organised by LA gallerist Hannah Hoffman....
...I go to Pristine Nails in Shepherd’s Bush. The best gifts I’ve given were to Jarvis on his most recent birthday....
...Tracksmith sells city-specific race kits, while Satisfy designed exclusive tops for the Paris and LA marathons this spring. Sold for €120, just 150 of each were available: they sold out within the day....
...They gather at the annual Evo tournament in Las Vegas, which boasted a record number of attendees in 2023....
...Swift was herself present on the red carpet at the Odeon in Leicester Square, as Beyoncé had been at the LA premiere of Swift’s film....
...Now, on most online retailers, the wines are labelled as “Patrick Bouju”, rather than Domaine La Bohème, his business....
...Coldplay’s bassist, who was returning from a gig in LA, could feel the scrutiny of a stranger fixating on his earlobe....
...months, she has launched a collaboration with Louis Vuitton – a bag version of her 2021 painting Ginger Locks, part of the house’s Artycapucines collection – and opened a solo show of new work at Gagosian’s LA...
...At a friend’s suggestion, she enrolled in LA Woodshop, a woodworking school in Downtown Los Angeles, and she fell in love with joining and turning on the lathe....
...Since her first solo museum show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1998, her work has been featured in major exhibitions and film festivals, from Venice to LA, Amsterdam to Montreal....
...It was nail-biting stuff. Six years in the making, that penthouse is finally open. I wasn’t quite the first to stay there; Leonardo DiCaprio had checked in the week before....
...She studiously avoids the splashy Las Vegas aesthetic of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, adopting instead a muddy palette of browns....
...Nails, Christina Conrad at Calliste. Set design, Aymeric Arnould at Open Space Paris. Seamstress, Carole Savaton at Atelier on Set. Production, Michaël Lacomblez at Louis2....
...Kit Maude’s translation nails this breathless voice, highly crafted to seem uncrafted....
...The legend is that Michael de la Pole, the 3rd Earl of Suffolk who was killed at the battle of Agincourt in 1415, lies buried in a silver coffin somewhere in the priory’s grounds....
...Over the years various attempts have been made in this direction: La Residencia, Castell Son Claret, Castillo Hotel Son Vida, Es Racó d’Artà....
...“I’ve been going to the movie theatre in LA. I’ve been watching a lot of Brian De Palma recently. The aesthetic is very inspiring....
...Treasure trove: Tim Harford explains what the price of a 2,000-year-old Roman nail tells us about value....
...Most of the squad play club football domestically or in the Scottish league, while Denmark’s team is packed with players from England’s Premier League and Spain’s La Liga....
...I stood on a number of people’s toes trying to nail the Gay Gordons, and then decided to watch from the sidelines for the safety of other dancers....
...The ephemeral bubble of la gloire. Sometimes, the reality of the Napoleonic moment is captured sideways on....
...The O’Sullivan studio is known for luxury feelgood deco, hyped by energising colours, but it’s hard to nail down just what the DNA is. Nothing is cookie-cutter....
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